Tomas Mendez (Duke Energy) and Victor Martinez (P&G) had the opportunity to present to a group of over 60 Hispanic High School students about careers in STEM and how the process of getting to where are today has shaped us as individuals. Unfortunately, many of these kids don't have role models to look up to and we want to change that! We are interested in identifying volunteers that would like to give back and that would help us show our next generation of leaders that there are people that look like them in companies out there.

Dater High School has more than 300 Hispanic students and most of them, if not all, come from very poor backgrounds. In fact, 2-3 new kids have been arriving to school since classes started, these kids are new to Cincinnati and in many cases new to the United States. We were very moved by the story of a boy 17 years old that spent 40 days (or 20) in the dessert crossing the border just to find job opportunities to help him better provide to his family (mom and siblings). This boy attends school every day and has 2 jobs after school, to provide for his family while continue to work on his own dreams of becoming a Civil Engineer.

We need Volunteers! We need people that would help us help these kids. Help could look like attending once to school and talking to these kids about different career fields, mentoring kids, getting your companies to sponsor different programs, etc... If interested, please contact us and we will be more than happy to enable you to change other people's lives.

West End Cincinnati's Hays-Porter "High-Tech" Elementary School students were learning Robotics as part of the "Summer of STEM" initiative sponsored by Greater Cincinnati STEM Collaborative, Duke Energy and P&G

This event was organized by SHPE Cincinnati with help from XOOPS Foundation and West End Community Council, and hosted by Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School.

SHPE Cincinnati was invited to participate in the UC Latino Faculty, Post Doctoral Fellow & Graduate Student Mixer on Friday, Feb. 12, 2016

The participants learned about SHPE, our goals, and about membership opportunities.

SHPE Cincinnati was mentioned by Cincinnati Public Schools in an article about the recent "Hour of Code" which our chapter supported, incl. a quote from our VP of Marketing, Michael Beck, who is also on the West End Community Council:

Another successful Noche de Ciencias (Night of Science).

35 kids at AMIS (Academy of Multilingual Immersion Studies) had fun learning about buoyancy and Newton's laws with 2 science projects while 15 parents had 2 workshops on college access and financial aid.

10 awesome volunteers and 3 teachers changing life through STEM. Way to go!

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