Category Archive for "Mentorship" | Orange County Uplift Foundation

OCUF Completes Its 2nd STEAM Cohort

Our new Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) program is an important component of our already mature and successful STEM mentoring program. Our STEAM mentorship program is committed towards providing guidance to college undergraduate students through participation in workshops, community service, and one-on-one mentorship.

The goal of the program is to foster educational and professional success by preparing and inspire young women and men in underserved communities to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) discipline and environments. These skills are needed for the jobs of tomorrow and through our STEAM initiative, we are expanding our CMP program even further and providing the essential components to prepare our students for the future.

CMP Student Theron Smith gets accepted into Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. program at UCI

CMP Student Tina Cao gets accepted into NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Internship

CMP Student Kathy Vega speaks at the United Nations

Katherine Vega

Engineering Physics Student, Fullerton College

Challenge: How Can Individuals and Corporations Manage and Reduce their Carbon Contributions?

Solution: Direct Methane Conversion – Changing Emissions to Graphene and Hydrogen Fuel

Katherine Vega focuses on the development of emerging and innovative technology. She represents Aeolus’s Breath, a team comprised of unique backgrounds, ages, and expertise. Their ongoing goal is to seal gaps between existing technology and solutions for global health and growth. Vega’s passion for learning motivated her to bring together great minds to form an engineering team last fall. They have worked on designing systems to support scientific advancements, such as an anchor for use in a microgravity environment and Direct Methane Conversion. Vega seeks to ensure the exceptional quality of tasks, contributes to scientific research supporting proposed technologies, and inspires a healthy team culture. She is pursuing a degree in Engineering Physics and hopes to bridge scientific knowledge with creative thought to contribute to humanity’s progress on and off Earth.