EOS/ESD Association to Support 3rd Annual Project Fibonacci® Steam Conference

On Thursday, May 10, 2018, Lisa Pimpinella, executive director of the EOS/ESD Association, and marketing administrator Brennan Pimpinella, presented a check for $3,000 to Project Fibonacci® Foundation founder Andy Drozd to provide six half-scholarships for students to attend the third annual Project Fibonacci® STEAM Conference, to be held this summer on the Beeches Professional Campus in Rome, NY, July 22-30, 2018.

Founded in 1982, the EOS/ESD Association, Inc., is a professional voluntary association dedicated to advancing the theory and practice of electrostatic discharge (ESD) avoidance. From fewer than 100 members, EOS/ESD Association has grown to more than 2,000 members in more than 30 countries throughout the world. From an initial emphasis of ESD on electronic components, EOS/ESD Association has broadened its horizons to include areas such as textiles, plastics, web processing, cleanrooms, and graphic arts. To meet the needs of a continually changing environment, EOS/ESD Association is chartered to expand ESD awareness through standards, development, educational programs, local chapters, publications, tutorials, certification and symposia, and the organization has the responsibility of representing the interests of the United States at the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in the area of electrostatics.

The six Project Fibonacci® STEAM Scholars who will be receiving the half-scholarships to attend the third annual Project Fibonacci® STEAM Conference are Karleigh Easton from Lake Shore High School in Angola, NY; Caleigh Cantalupo and Mia Roces from Riverhead High School in Riverhead, NY; Jacob Thompson from Middlebury College in Vermont; Michael Spizuoco from Christian Brothers Academy in Syracuse, NY; and Julian McWilliams from Mohonasen in Schenectady, NY.

High school sophomores through college juniors from throughout New York State and beyond will be attending the week-long Project Fibonacci® STEAM Conference, which focuses on immersive, hands-on learning that crosses the various STEAM disciplines through workshops, tours and keynote addresses from celebrity experts, who have included physicist Michio Kaku, writer Margot Lee Shetterly, neuroscientist David Eagleman and actor and science communicator Alan Alda. This year’s roster will include medical anthropologist Brandy Schillace, mathematician Mario Livio, astrophysicists Alex Filippenko and Max Tegmark, and science writer and communicator Michael Miller.

Registration is currently open for the 2018 Project Fibonacci® STEAM Conference.

The Project Fibonacci® Foundation, Inc., is a nonprofit educational organization with the mission of introducing our youth to a culture of interdisciplinary STEAM learning (STEM + the Arts), teaching them to become creative, independent leaders of community resurgence.

For more information, please visit ProjectFibonacci.org, email info@projectfibonacci.org, or call 315-334-1163.

Full STEAM Ahead!