Posted August 21, 2024
Denver School of Innovation and Sustainable Design (DSISD) launched its decennial year celebration with a STEAM Careers Fair to showcase the year’s theme: Space for All, Powered by STEAM. STEAM representatives from nine careers presented to DSISD students their personal stories highlighting why they selected their career, the high school preparation recommended for their career, and moments in their professional lives that kept them inspired. Students shared questions they had specifically prepared for each presenter. The presentations, conducted in a workshop format, provided students the opportunity to engage in small group discussions and hands-on activities, such as experiencing an immersive virtual reality (VR) which enabled students to step into the boots of an astronaut and writing Postcards to Space, sponsored by Club for the Future. STEAM Careers Fair Representatives: From left to right: Josh Hanes, CEO Uplift Aerospace; Alec Coburn, Senior System Engineer on the New Glenn Program at Blue Origin; Ellen K. Giarratana, Lawyer/Job Equity Program Manager at the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment; Tristan Bego, Entrepreneur/Owner of The Common Collective, Black owned, woman owned; From the back: Dr. Constance Giarratana MD. Pediatrician; Dr. Andy Aldrin, President of the Aldrin Family Foundation; Elizabeth Engeldrum, Lead Systems Engineer for Blue Origin; From the front: Bailey Burns, Systems Engineer specializing in Environmental Control and Life Support System- EVA spacesuit engineer for Blue Origin; and Mikalah Dunham, Thermal Systems engineer at Blue Origin