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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Institute
for STEM Education at <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">CSU</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">East</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Bay</st1:PlaceType>,
in partnership with Bayer Healthcare, Wareham Development, UC Berkeley, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
and the East Bay EDA hosted their annual STEM Career Awareness Day on
April 11th at Wareham Development in Emeryville. Wareham Development
provided every student with a video camera and a video challenge, with a first
prize of $500 and a private theater showing of the winning video. Note their
cameras, already working in many of the photos.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Approximately 150 students from <st1:City
w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:City>, Emeryville, <st1:City w:st="on">Oakland</st1:City>,
Oakland Tech and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">McClymonds</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">High Schools</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
participated. There were students from the Groundwork Richmond Project as well.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Check out STEM Career Awareness
Day Photos: <a
href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/53901376@N04/sets/72157643858718174/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/53901376@N04/sets/72157643858718174/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This agenda does a good job of
explaining the photographs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><b><u><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>STEM Career
Awareness Day Agenda</span></font></u></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Welcome to Career
Day 2014</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Trina Ostrander, Associate Director,
Public Policy and Communications, Bayer Healthcare and Rich Robbins, President,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Wareham</st1:City></st1:place>
Development<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Women in STEM</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>CaTameron Bobino, Graduate Student, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">CSU</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">East</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Bay</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on"><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;font-weight:bold'>East</span></font></b></st1:PlaceName><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Bay</st1:PlaceType></span></font></b></st1:place><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'> Innovation Corridor</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Keith Carson, Alameda County Board
of Supervisors, District Five and Chair, East Bay Economic Development Alliance<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Keynote Remarks</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Sarah Kobrinsky, Poet Laureate, City
of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Emeryville</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Moving into STEM
Careers: Pathways, Pitfalls & Possibilities</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Facilitator: Trina Ostrander,
Associate Director, Public Policy and Comm., Bayer Healthcare<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Panelists: Ridder Alvarez,
Transportation Engineer, Caltrans; Jack Cunniff, Ph.D., Regional Sales Manager,
Thermo Fisher Scientific; Jateen Bhakta, Co-Founder, Ninja Pandas; Clare
Bhakta, Instructor, CSU East Bay; Colleen McMahan, Acting Research Leader, US
Department of Agriculture<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Site <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tours</st1:place></st1:City></span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Industry representatives engaged
students in one site hands-on demonstrations and Q&A sessions. Sites:
Balfour Beatty Construction, Bayer Healthcare, Ex’pressions College,
Kinemed, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Meyer</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Sound</st1:PlaceName>,
Swerveco, and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wareham</st1:place></st1:City>
Development<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Perspectives on the
day & Networking BINGO</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Facilitator:<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b>Stephanie Couch, Bayer Executive Director,
Institute for STEM Education, CSUEB<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Board Member & Community Relations, UC Berkeley<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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