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Photos: STEM in Education Conference

More than 350 educators, science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professionals and nonprofit organizations, CSUDH math, science and teacher education majors, and high school students attended the 2015 STEM in Education Conference put on by the university’s Center for Innovation in STEM Education on Saturday, Oct. 24.

STEM in ED conference
The Loker Student Union Ballroom was decked out for the conference
Yajaira Bautista at research poster
Biology student Yajaira Bautista readies to present her research at the poster presentations
poster presentations at STEM in Ed
CSUDH students got the opportunity to share their STEM research
speaker Lee Crockett
Author Lee Crockett was the morning keynote and talked about inspiring students to innovate.
Stem in ed conference
Attendees were active participants in the conference, here working collaboratively on a construction project.
Anita Sengupta
JPL Aerospace Engineer Anita Sengupta was the lunch keynote speaker. She spoke about her work on the Mars Rover mission and being a female scientist.
tweet image from Dr. Sengupta
Dr. Sengupta posted this photo on her Twitter account @Doctor _Astro and said: Here’s looking at you @CSUDHcsi3 @DominguezHills #therealmartian #journeytomars starts with you!
WISE students
Center for Innovation in STEM Director Kamal Hamdan (back, center) with the Dymally High School students selected as the first cohort of the new Women in STEM Education (WISE) mentoring program.