STEM Speaker Series

Are you interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math? Join us by attending one or all five sessions in the STEM Speaker Series.

STEM SPEAKER SERIES: PART 1

Get Into Electric Vehicles

  • Date: Thursday, February 16, 2023
  • Time: 3 - 5 pm
  • Place: Scottsdale Community College, ICC-222 (Map)

Register for the Electric Vehicles Event

Why attend?

  • See current Electric Vehicles up close in the EV Car Show
  • Learn about Electric Vehicles from those who are really in the know
  • Discover career opportunities of the future from CEOs and professionals
  • A one year free membership in the Electric Vehicle Association ($25.00 value) to any age student at Scottsdale Community College. Membership benefits.
  • Make connections
  • Create a better future
  • STEM T-Shirt giveaway and food
electric vehicle

Speakers

STEM SPEAKER SERIES: PART 2

A Lesson in Arizona Native and Urban Wildlife

Natalie Case, Education Programs Developer

  • Date: Thursday, March 2, 2023
  • Time: 3 - 4:30 pm
  • Place: Scottsdale Community College, SL-109 (Map)

Register for the AZ Native and Urban Wildlife Event.

Why attend?

  • Learn about Central AZ wildlife from those who know.
  • See desert creatures up close and personal
  • Tour SCC’s pond and Center for Native and Urban Wildlife centers around campus
  • Consider volunteering
  • Make Connections
  • STEM T-Shirt giveaway and food
Natalie Case with Walter Natalie Case worked her way through SCC from student, to volunteer, to staff and adjunct professor. She currently manages the education and outreach activities of the Center for Native and Urban Wildlife, a part of the Life Sciences Department. Prior to that, Natalie maintained the Center's nature center (Toad Hall) and Wildlife Demonstration Gardens, which exist to help people learn about and experience the plants and animals that we share our space with. Come and learn about some of our amazing desert creatures!

STEM SPEAKER SERIES: PART 3

Quantifying Sustainability: Explorations into Semiconductor Chemical Footprint Methodology

Beverly Canham, Intel Corporation

  • Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2023
  • Time: 3 - 4 pm
  • Place: Scottsdale Community College, SL-116 (Map)

Register for the Quanitfying Sustainability Event

Why attend?

  • Overview of some sustainability considerations
  • Challenges scaling chemical footprint to one of the world’s most complicated manufacturing processes
  • Tips and suggestions for students interested in pursuing sustainability
  • Make Connections
  • STEM T-Shirt giveaway and snacks
Beverly Canham with semiconductor backgroundBeverly Canham, Chemical Footprint Program Manager at Intel Corporation, discusses efforts to quantify sustainability by creating and measuring a chemical footprint for semiconductor manufacturing.

STEM SPEAKER SERIES: PART 4

SCC Planetarium Show: The High Energy Physics of Eta Carinae, a Supernova in the Making

Steve Mutz, SCC Resident Faculty

  • Date: Thursday, April 13, 2023
  • Time: 3 - 4:30 pm
  • Place: Scottsdale Community College, NS-400 (Map)

Register for the SCC Planetarium Show Event

Why attend?

  • Explore the wonders of the solar system
  • Visit an actual planetarium on SCC's campus
  • Make Connections
  • STEM T-Shirt giveaway and snacks
Hubble Captures the Galaxy’s Biggest Ongoing Stellar Fireworks Show
Steve Mutz

Hubble Captures the Galaxy’s Biggest Ongoing Stellar Fireworks Show courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight.

Steve Mutz, Physics and Astronomy Professor

STEM SPEAKER SERIES: PART 5

What Happens When 2 Cars Meet: The Construction of Crash Tests

Michael Rosenfeld, RSR Engineering

  • Date: Wednesday, May 3, 2023
  • Time: 3 - 4:30 pm
  • Place: Scottsdale Community College, TBD (Map)

Register for the Construction of Crash Tests Event

Why attend?

  • Learn about traffic accident reconstruction
  • Become an automotive test engineer
  • Learn how to create a staged low velocity automobile crash
  • Watch this CATAIR 2022 Crash 7-72 mph T-bone collision video
  • Make Connections
  • STEM T-Shirt giveaway and snacks
T-boned car with inset of Michael Rosenfeld, RSR Engineering

Michael Rosenfield

Michael Rosenfield, RSR Engineering, consults as a traffic accident reconstructionist and as an automotive test engineer.