Girls like Ada
Ada Lovelace was a woman born during the 19th Century who became a forward thinking mathematician who rivaled in ability her male contemporaries. She is said to be one of the first people to recognize the potential of computing machines. Women around the world make up only 30% of researchers in STEM fields. Ada has become an icon for promoting young women entering STEM field. Seabury MS celebrates ALD each year to support women entering the STEM Field. We invited 10 women working in STEM fields to talk about their experiences, run science labs, and present their ideas to all students.
The guest list included:
Penny Grellier an administrator from Pierce Transit, who talked about the complex machine that is a transit facility and jobs/internships available.
Dr. Diane Bartels a pediatrician, who taught our students how to suture a cut.
Sonja, a Seabury parent and a member of the board, is also an accomplished architect. She asked students to design a structure from materials found in our maker space.
Alex Cole is a former Seabury Student and a recent graduate of the University of Washington, Tacoma. She is now pursuing a masters degree in urban design from a university in Wales. Alex got the students thinking about sustainable cities and had them make plans to sustainably meet the needs of a future community.
Dr. Amani is a sustainability scientist with a focus on sustainable agricultural development. She attended the UC Davis for her undergraduate degree, studying agricultural economics, philosophy, and Japanese. From there, she went on to earn a Masters from Cornell University in Agricultural Economics and then a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University. In addition to teaching at the college level, Dr. Amani has worked in the Peace Corps, served as a regional market coordinator for the United Nations, and now works as a consultant. In her work with food aid and food assistance, she helps address issues such as market dynamics, organizational development and community resilience. Dr. Amani opened our eyes to how we need to be partaking in a "fact diet" to combat a human tendency to dramatize global issues.
Dr. Sprenger is professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She researches the role of the microenvironment in tumor dormancy and the role of androgen receptor splice variants in castration resistant prostate cancer.
After doing her undergraduate work at UPS here in Tacoma, she completed a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington, Seattle. She has completed postdoctoral work in the Urology Department and the Department of Medicine at the UW.
Christine Hartzell
Dr. Hartzell, a Seabury alumni, is an assistant professor of aerospace engineering. She is a scientist on the OSIRIS-REx mission, which is currently orbiting the asteroid Bennu. Another mission she works on, called Janus, is working to fly by two binary asteroid systems to understand how those systems formed.
As a professor, she conducts research, trains new researchers, and teachers astrodynamics. Her research specifically focuses on the behavior of granular materials that are dominated by non-gravitational forces--or, more simply, she studies dust on the surface of the moon and asteroids in order to understand why those surfaces look how they look and to enable the design of robotic spacecraft to collect samples from those surfaces.
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