About this episode
Dr. Victoria Serrano discusses STEM outreach and engineering education.
Dr. Victoria Serrano spoke with us about STEM outreach, fostering curiosity, and inspiring students with engineering education. Victoria is a professor at the Technological University of Panama (her faculty page: UTP | Dra. Victoria Serrano ). Her youtube channel is CIATEC PANAMA which talks about circuits, electronics, and robotics. The channel goes along with her ciatecpanama.com website which shows the types of courses and outreach she does with Arduino UNOs and other low cost equipment. Victoria is also a Fulbright Scholar, an IEEE STEM Champion 2023, and Honorable Mention IEEE Rising Stars Conference 2024. She also received the IEEE EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Outreach and Informal Education in 2019 ( the award Elecia and Chris believe is related to their work on Embedded.fm and for which they were honored to be nominated). The final quote was from Haben Girma 's book: Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law . Transcript
People in this episode
Hosts: Elecia White, Chris White
Guest: Dr. Victoria Serrano
Topics covered
- STEM outreach
- engineering education
- fostering curiosity
- electronics
- robotics
Keywords
- STEM
- engineering
- education
- outreach
- robotics
- electronics
- Arduino
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Technological University of Panama, CIATEC PANAMA, IEEE
Books & works: Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
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