STEM Journey III Keynote Speakers- FREE Admission

April 2, 2016 at Cape Cod Community College 12-4 PM

Theme: Transportation:
Ground- Dr. John Leonard, Professor of
Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at
MIT-. Interests: Artificial Intelligence,
Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles.
Talk: Autonomous Cars

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

His research addresses the problems of
navigation and mapping for autonomous
mobile robots. He holds the degrees of
B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering and
Science from the University of Pennsylvania
(1987) and D.Phil. in Engineering Science
from the University of Oxford (1994). Prof.
Leonard joined the MIT faculty in 1996, after
five years as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and
Research Scientist in the MIT Sea Grant
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)
Laboratory. He was team leader for MIT's
DARPA Urban Challenge team (robotic
vehicles), and one of six teams to complete

BIOGRAPHY

the race. He served as Co-Director of the

Dr. John J. Leonard is the Samuel C.

Ford-MIT Alliance from 2009 to 2013. He is

Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean

the recipient of an NSF Career Award

Engineering and Associate Department

(1998) and the King-Sun Fu Memorial Best

Head for Research in the MIT Department

Transactions on Robotics Paper Award

of Mechanical Engineering. He is also a

(2006). He is an IEEE Fellow (2014). He

member of the MIT Computer Science and

teaches a course on Autonomous Cars at

MIT.

Additional information on STEM Journey 2016 can be found on;

http://capecodstemnetwork.org/news-events/stem-journey-2016

http://www.scoutscapecod.org/

Air- MA Senator Dan Wolf, founder

and CEO of Cape Air, Largest Regional
Airline in US Talk: Advances in
Aviation.

degree at the Quaker School of Aeronautics

in Airframe and Power Plant Maintenance.
Dan continues to stay current with his Air
Transport Pilot license and flies as a pilot for
Cape Air on weekends during the busy
summer season.
In November 2010, 2012 and 2014, Dan
was elected to the Massachusetts State
Senate representing Cape Cod and the

In 1989 Daniel A. Wolf founded Cape Air

with one route between Boston and
Provincetown, eight employees and a firstyear total of just 8,000 passengers. Today,
Cape Air, along with sister airline Nantucket
Airlines, is the largest commuter airline in
the United States. Cape Air/Nantucket
Airlines fleet of Cessna 402s, Cessna
Caravan Amphibians, Britten-Norman
Islanders and ATR-42s fly to some of the
most beautiful destinations in the world.
Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines is partly an
employee-owned company with a workforce
of approximately 1,200 serving more than
686,000 passengers a year.

Islands.Dan serves on a number of boards

including the Regional Airline Association,
the Cape Cod Business Round Table, the
Association for the Preservation of Cape
Cod,.. Under Dans leadership Cape Air has
received recognition for being one of the
most philanthropic companies in
southeastern Massachusetts. In June of
2010 Dan received an honorary doctorate
degree from Daniel Webster College in
Nashua, New Hampshire.
The Commuter/Regional Airline News
named Dan Turboprop Executive of the
Year.Dan resides with his wife in Harwich,
Massachusetts.

Dan received a bachelors degree in

Political Philosophy from Wesleyan
University in Middletown, Connecticut and a
Additional information on STEM Journey 2016 can be found on;
http://capecodstemnetwork.org/news-events/stem-journey-2016

http://www.scoutscapecod.org/

Megan studied mechanical engineering

Water- Ms. Megan Carroll., Research
Engineer, Applied Ocean Physics &
Engineering Dept., Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute- Talk:-
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
(AUV)

at the University of Vermont, and when

she came back to the Island she ended
up staying and commuting to her new
job at WHOI.
She is involved in designing and
building the next generation of
submersibles, like Jason Jr. She played
a key role in the recent upgrade of Alvin,
the submersible owned by the U.S.
Navy and operated by WHOI. She
finished the design and supervised the
assembly and testing for underwater
elevators, called landers, for the
research vessel Falkor.
It is interesting that Megans elementary
school experience with Jason Jr. led to

Megan Carroll grew up on the Vineyard.

a career in oceanography where she is

Her introduction to WHOI and

working on a next generation version of

oceanography began with Jason Jr., a

submersibles like Jason Jr. Trips to

remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that

museums, Woods Hole and STEM

was involved with finding and exploring

Journey may lead to an interest and

potential career in the sciences.

the wreckage of the Titanic. Megan was

in elementary school when she
observed the live feed from Jason Jr. at
WHOI after the Titanic was found by
Bob Ballard.

Additional information on STEM Journey 2016 can be found on;

http://capecodstemnetwork.org/news-events/stem-journey-2016

http://www.scoutscapecod.org/

STEM Journey III for K-12 students- Theme: Transportation

Air, Land & Sea-FREE Admission
The third STEM Journey event consists
of the following: enthusiastic volunteers,
keynote speakers, hands on science
demonstrations and earning Boy Scout
Merit Badges. This year (April 2, 2016),
our theme will be Transportation and the
title is STEM Journey III:
Transportation: Air, Ground and Sea.
One of our Keynote speakers will be
discussing Autonomous Vehicles. We
do expect to have 50 organizations, 150
volunteers and 1,500 visitors on April 2,
2016 at Cape Cod Community College.
Mission Statement
The STEM Journey program was
organized in 2014 to provide a stimulus
and introduction to the sciences for K-12
students from the Cape and Islands and
South Shore. We feel that the US needs
to improve science, technology,
engineering and math (STEM)
education to remain competitive with the
rest of the world. This will not be truly
effective unless we can inspire young
students through programs like STEM
Journey.
In 2015 (STEM Journey II), we had
more than 1100 visitors, 100 volunteers,

30 organizations and 500 people who

signed up to hear our keynote speakers.
Exhibits will include:
Hands on chemistry experiments
Earth Day-hands on experiments
Walk along gliders
3D printers making parts
LEGO Lab
Air Craft Simulators
Ham Radios
Underwater Vehicle Simulator
Nautical Rope Tying
And many more exhibits for K-12
students
Exhibitors will include:
Cambridge Science in the Streets
Heritage pre K STEM Program
Cape & Islands STEM Region
Cape Cod Community College
Mass Maritime College
Cape & Islands Council Boy Scouts of
America
American Chemical Society
Light House Charter School Ham Radio
Greenbriar Nature Conservatory
And many more
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Dr. Jack Driscoll, ACSF Jennifer Maclachlan,
STEM Journey Committee, Notheastern
Section of the American Chemical Society

Additional information on STEM Journey 2016 can be found on;

http://capecodstemnetwork.org/news-events/stem-journey-2016

http://www.scoutscapecod.org/