We are pleased to announce that Maribel Cortes Conde has been appointed by the Board as the new President of SHPE Cincinnati. 

Maribel is a GE Aviation Sr Technical Project Manager working on an important migration project across the whole engineering community. Born and raised in Mexico City, Cortes Conde holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the Polytechnic Institute in Mexico. Her career in a male dominated industry includes managing outsourcing IT operations with teams in Mexico, India, China and USA. Some of the clients in US included GE Aviation, GE Energy, GE Transportation, Anheuser Busch and Mitel Networks in Canada.

Maribel’s passion for education moved her to support the Cincinnati Ohio Hispanic Community with volunteering work at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, supporting organizations such as Su Casa, LULAC and Santa Maria etc.

She is an active member of the GE Aviation Hispanic Forum and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which have been a platform to support Cincinnati Public school kids during the pandemic, where she led the initiative to provide refurbished laptops to ESL students within the school district.

Maribel has 2 daughters, Sophia Munoz(16) and Tamara Munoz(14) who attend Walnut Hills High School and is married to Walter Munoz, who is also an active member supporting the Hispanic community.

We thank the SHPE UC student chapter of Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) - National Group for organizing the Noche de Ciencias at Roberts Academy: A Paideia Learning Community
Noche de Ciencias or Night of Science is a national program of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and was initiated in 2008 as a way to introduce students and families to science and engineering through hands-on activities and exposure to college and career information in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

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FIRST® LEGO® League introduces young people, ages 9 to 16* (grades 4-8), to the fun and excitement of science and technology while building self-confidence, knowledge, and valuable career and life skills. The program challenges kids to think like scientists and engineers. Alongside adult Mentors, teams solve problems using engineering concepts, presentation techniques, and robots.

Children

• Solve real-world engineering challenges
• Discover career possibilities
• Apply Core Values and learn to make positive contributions to society
• Engage with their community

Teams

• Apply math and science concepts to research, design, build, and program autonomous robots
• Use LEGO MINDSTORMS® technologies 
• Gain hands-on experience solving real-world problems
• Learn from and interact with adult Mentors
• Work as a group to overcome obstacles and meet challenges
• Investigate, strategize, design, build, program, and test their robotic inventions
• Search the web, talk to scientists, visit the library, and develop compelling research resentations which relate to a problem or question facing the world today
• Develop employment and life skills including critical thinking, time management, collaboration, and communication while becoming more self-confident
• May compete with peers in high energy, sports-like tournaments

SHPE Cincinnati has been coaching students from AMIS (Academy For Multilingual Immersion Studies) for over 5 years now. 

Today our students participated in a qualifying tournament, and while they didn't advance to the next round, they won the Judges Award for "We Work Together" !!!!! 

Clearly the best teamwork!!!

If you would like to help young students in the Elementary School to learn technology (Robotics, Computers) please join SHPE Cincinnati!!! 

We're always looking for volunteers!, please contact us 

The SHPE Science Night (Noche de Ciencias) is a national program to promote knowledge and interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) among the Hispanic Community. 

Students participate in hands-on STEM activities/projects teaching them how to use their creativity and imagination.

At the same time, their parents receive useful college access and financial information, so they can better plan for future college education for their kids. 

The "SHPE Science Night" at Roberts Academy on Thursday, Dec. 8th, was a total success.

If you would like to volunteer for future events, please contact us

We need volunteers for our SHPE Noche de Ciencias (Science Night) for:

Thursday, Dec. 8th
Roberts Academy: A Paideia Learning Community! 

Please contact Melannie Kleven or Tomas Mendez Bernard directly.