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When:
February 6, 2022 @ 4:00 pm
2022-02-06T16:00:00-08:00
2022-02-06T16:15:00-08:00
Where:
Zoom Webinar - Register via Event Website
Contact:
Alison Mackenzie
The Orinda-Moraga-Lafayette Branch invites you to webinar #9 in a series of presentations for high school students interested in STEM careers in OML’s Girls4STEM program.
Topic: “Why Studying Materials Science is Like Playing Tetris”
with Maritza Sanchez. BS, MS, PhD Candidate in Materials Science & Engineering at UC San Diego
Maritza Sanchez is a first-generation college student who started out as a psychology major at UC Santa Barbara. She took an engineering course and loved it. Hear about the challenges she confronted in changing her major. She persisted, getting a BS in Materials Science at Cal State LA. After earning an MS degree in Materials Science & Engineering, she is completing her PhD at UC San Diego in Materials Science Engineering. Her research helps to make planes fly faster and machines such as phones and computers more efficient.
Click HERE to register in advance for this webinar.