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Chelsey Roebuck shared thisChelsey Roebuck shared thisI would not be where I am today without the people who intentionally worked to make STEM opportunities visible, equitable, and achievable. That’s why it’s been such an honor to lead SHPE at MIT through one of the most ambitious years in our chapter’s history. Here are a few highlights from the year: - Named the 2026 ASCEND Student Group of the Year - Raised more than $60,000 to support our most important initiatives, ending the year net-positive after several consecutive years of deficits 💰 - Covered all expenses for 45 members to attend the SHPE National Convention (the largest delegation in chapter history), where many secured internship and job offers - Hosted more than 45 events across professional development, academic support, community service, and community building - Revamped MentorSHPE, our high school outreach program, teaching local students STEM topics every week - Hosted our first-ever SHPE on a Ship, bringing together more than 90 students from colleges across the Boston area for a night on Boston Harbor I’m also grateful to have been recognized for my contributions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Student Awards Convocation, where I received the Mens et Manus Award. Named after MIT’s motto, “Mind and Hand”, the award recognizes students who combine thoughtful leadership with practical action to make a positive impact on their community. Thank you to the MIT Latino Cultural Center and the MIT Office of Academic Community, Empowerment, and Success (OACES) for continuing to support organizations like ours. Thank you to Trinidad Carney for believing in our mission. Thank you to our sponsors and donors, without whom none of this would have been possible. Most importantly, thank you to Alex Zhindon-Romero, Isabel Duran, Ernesto Gomez, Carlos Yuniel Nuñez-Sosa, Haley Hernandez, Cristopher Miranda, Eduardo Hernandez, Maria Taveras, and Emma Martinez for being such incredible teammates and leading some of our most impactful work. All the weekly exec meetings, difficult conversations, and late nights were absolutely worth it. 💙 I’m extremely proud of what we have accomplished and even more excited to see the amazing things the chapter does over the next few years 🙏 For companies that care about supporting the next generation of technical leaders, SHPE at MIT would love to work with you. Please reach out to shpe-exec@mit.edu! The impact speaks for itself.
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Chelsey Roebuck reposted thisChelsey Roebuck reposted thisCalling all CU NSBE Alumni — come out to campus for our 48th Anniversary Celebration on Feb. 20th! RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/eB8mNhW5
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Chelsey Roebuck shared thisWe're so thankful to close out another strong program year at Emerging Leaders in Technology and Engineering (ELiTE) by recognizing and highlighting our class of 2023 high school graduates across our social media channels over the next week. Thank you to ELiTE's 2022 graduates Brios Olivares, Mannendri Olivares, Michael Tesfaye, and Richlove Nkansah for the warm welcome into ELiTE's alum community from Seattle! #AmazonFutureEngineerChelsey Roebuck shared thisAs we approach the end of another successful program year at ELiTE, our alums join us in honoring and celebrating our class of 2023 high school graduates and welcoming them into our alum community. We are incredibly proud of them for their dedication, hard work, and achievements. Please tune in next week to help us celebrate their journeys as they transition to college and begin their professional careers. #AmazonFutureEngineer #iamelite #classof2023 #diversityintech #stem #stemCollegeReady #collegeadmissions #collegeready #collegebound #thisiswhywedoit #robotics
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Chelsey Roebuck shared thisGrowth is nonlinear and happens at different rates for each student. For Shariana Allen, that growth happened in waves. She admittedly joined our program for the free food, and from her own honest reflection, was rude and angry about her life circumstances. But Shariana eventually blossomed, and her progress from a special education student in the South Bronx as an 8th grader, to a Computer Science + Math major with a full tuition scholarship just four years later is remarkable. Check out the post below to hear Shariana's story in her own words. #education #computerscience #growth #confidence #communityChelsey Roebuck shared thisMeet Shariana, a South Bronx native and a Computer Science + Math major at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Purchase. Click below to learn more about her inspirational journey into CS education. https://lnkd.in/edGnkeh3 “Based on the schools I've been to, STEM education just doesn’t exist. Computer Science is not taught. Art is not taught … They’re just going to tell you that Algebra is the way to go. And just Algebra, that’s it.” #STEMCollegeReady #CSEducation #DiversityInTech #STEMEnrichment
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Chelsey Roebuck shared thisChelsey Roebuck shared thisThe orange sensors in this video might not look like much, but they are powerful technology that helps us deliver our packages on time for customers…let me explain. I recently visited one of our Sort Centers in Colorado where many of our customer packages go before they are sent to an Amazon delivery station or partner facility (like USPS). I saw firsthand how our AWS machine learning-based equipment monitoring service named Amazon Monitron is detecting potential issues with our fulfillment and sort center machinery before they happen. Since a typical Fulfillment Center has dozens of miles of conveyors being driven by hundreds of motors and belts, keeping them running is super important to delivering reliably for customers. The orange sensors continuously collect temperature and vibration measurements, and send these metrics to the AWS cloud to be analyzed in real time using machine learning modeling that can predict when a part might stop working. Amazon Monitron alerted the team that one of our induction belts (critical for sorting and moving packages) might fail soon. Our team was able to safely plan a time to look at it and perform predictive maintenance, saving hours of downtime and ensuring customer deliveries were made on time. We always knew that if we were having these challenges it meant others were as well, which is why the AWS team built Amazon Monitron as a turnkey solution for other companies. So far, Amazon Monitron has reduced unplanned downtime by 70% at Amazon sites where it’s used and gained fast acceptance from industrial customers. Loved hearing about its impact in person. https://lnkd.in/gBgmpcvz
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Chelsey Roebuck shared thisMannendri Olivares is exceptional, and I am honored to have played a small part in this incredible journey. Read more in the article below.Chelsey Roebuck shared thisMannendri Olivares continues to redefine the narrative for underrepresented students in STEM. He built an impressive resume throughout high school with dual enrollment coursework at Columbia Engineering and research experiences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University. So it was no surprise that Mannendri had his pick of some of the top universities in the country, ultimately selecting MIT from a competitive list of options. Mannendri is a Gates Scholarship recipient and an Amazon Future Engineer Award recipient. Check out the link below to read more about his incredible journey. #technology #engineering #amazon #amazonfutureengineer #GatesScholar #diversityintech #research https://lnkd.in/eBJtJbis
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Chelsey Roebuck shared thisI am privileged enough to have had the opportunity to interact with this incredible group of young people on a weekly basis for the past few years. I am inspired by what they have already accomplished and excited for what will surely come next. #classof2022 #stemCollegeReadyChelsey Roebuck shared thisRichlove Nkansah has significant family responsibilities in addition to her schoolwork, often bringing her siblings with her to class in person and on Zoom. Layla Hussein is an activist that has been awarded for her efforts to amplify the voices of marginalized creatives from the Bronx. Kendric Terry relentlessly flips and twirls his Rubik's cube on his walk to school each day, using the activity and distractions of the busy East Harlem streets to strengthen his muscle memory. Daniela Cabral moved to New York from the Dominican Republic three years ago and has not only learned English, but is proficient in a multitude of programming languages. What do all these young people have in common? They are all a part of ELiTE’s graduating class! Here’s a snapshot of our Class of 2022 in numbers: 56.7% are female, 76.7% are Pell-Eligible (undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need), 90.0% are Black, 26.7% are Latinx, and 93.3% were enrolled in NYC Public Schools. Among the top high school graduates in the nation, 80% of seniors got into their first choice college and are set to study STEM at schools like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, NYU, Cornell, and Northeastern in the Fall with 86.7% pursuing computer science or engineering related majors. 76.7% have been matched with merit and need based scholarships that cover their full cost of attendance (or close to it) from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Posse Foundation, Amazon, Google, Dell Technologies, Jane Street and their universities. ELiTE targets students without much experience in computer science and without the necessary academic, college, and career support systems in their high schools to help them realize their full potential. Over multiple years—and behind each college application, internship and summer program acceptance, and academic or coursework decision—the ELiTE team has pushed each student to envision more for themselves and given them the tools to excel well beyond. #iamelite #classof2022 #diversityintech #stem #stemCollegeReady #collegeadmissions
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Chelsey Roebuck shared thisChelsey Roebuck shared thisThis week, join our #CSforALL webinar on Wednesday at 4:00 PM EST to celebrate the achievements of black icons and initiatives, discuss where we are now, and address the future STEM possibilities. #BlackHistoryMonth Guest Speakers: -Ope Bukola, Founder, Kibo School of Technology -Dr. Marvin Carr, Director, Walmart Foundation, Center for Racial Equity -Sasha A. Alston, Founder and CEO, Sasha Ariel Ventures -Chelsey Roebuck, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Emerging Leaders in Technology and Engineering Inc. Register Here: bit.ly/BlackHistoryMonthCS
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Chelsey Roebuck shared this"Entrepreneurship is like running a marathon through a labyrinth." Inspired by Sam Bhattacharyya and his path to improve access to education for 50M students.Chelsey Roebuck shared thisIn our latest blog post, we sat down with 2014-15 Fellow Sam Bhattacharyya, co-founder of Vectorly, to hear about his business trajectory and how he plans to make educational content accessible for millions of students through video vectorization. http://ow.ly/9C5P50B3Ahp You can also access the blog on our Legatum Center website: http://ow.ly/hulq50B3Aj1
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Chelsey Roebuck liked thisChelsey Roebuck liked thisExpecting a 'passion' to be fully formed and established is a lot to ask of a teenager, especially if asking them to prove it on a college application. Instead, we can emphasize the concept of purpose - an ability to organize one's energy and focus on things that matter to them, even if what matters changes. Thanks to Brennan Barnard for lifting this conversation and including me in it! #collegecounseling #highereducation #collegeadmissions #higheredleadership https://lnkd.in/efsJr8mtTwo Reports Explore Gen Z, Purpose, And College AdmissionTwo Reports Explore Gen Z, Purpose, And College Admission
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Chelsey Roebuck reacted on thisChelsey Roebuck reacted on this28 girls. 6 teams. 6 robots built from scratch. 🤖 Back in July, we hosted 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗛𝗲𝗿: 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻, 𝗕𝘆 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 at Ashesi University, welcoming 28 girls from Osbert Senior High School and Twafoman Senior High School for their first real university engineering experience. Here's what the day looked like: 🚁 A campus tour that ended at a live hexacopter drone demo 🎤 Powerful talks from Miss Francine Arthur and Madam VERA YAA MANSA NUTAKOR on their journeys in engineering 🚗 An autonomous vehicle showcase by our Graduate Mechatronics students 🔧 The VEX Robotics Challenge, where teams assembled, configured, and operated their own robots The best part? Girls who were quiet in the morning were troubleshooting, competing, and cheering by the afternoon. 👏 A heartfelt thank you to Ashesi University leadership, especially Angela Owusu-Ansah, Osei Juantuah Wiafe COHSProf, MASSE, MSc, MBA, Ing. Isaac Kumi-Asare, PE-GhIE, and Philip C. Aka, for believing in this vision. 💙 To our donors, friends, colleagues, and family who gave so generously, and to the ETH-Ashesi MSc/MAS Mechatronics | Cohort 5 (Class of 2028), 3,and 4 and our 10 volunteers: thank you for making it happen. 🙏 The next edition will reach even more schools. Follow EngineerHer to be part of it! 👉 🎥 Hear from the girls themselves: link in the comments 👇
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Chelsey Roebuck reacted on thisChelsey Roebuck reacted on this“I was in a Manhattan classroom, three blocks away on 9/11. I remember looking through these two-story plate-glass windows at this billowing black-gray kind of fog coming from one way as we went out the other way into a sunny sky. Early on in high school, it was imprinted on me that what’s most important is what happens to all of us. And the ability to have agency in that. 9/11 helped cement that. Important critical junctures really can bring out the best in humanity, if we choose to respond.” Thank you TIME and Karl Vick for including me in the 9/11 special issue. I have a tremendous sense of gratitude as I reflect back on these past twenty-five years, and what I’ve been able to learn and contribute. Most of all, I'm grateful for the extraordinary, kind humans I've met along the way. Last year, I left my life’s work at Pursuit because I saw that AI alignment was becoming pressing and potentially more consequential. I started Bright Futures to build cooperative AI systems for the benefit of humanity.
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Chelsey Roebuck liked thisChelsey Roebuck liked thisWe're sharing opportunities worth knowing about across the education innovation field: jobs, funding, and fellowships for the builders, leaders, and thinkers moving education forward. FUNDING & FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES ⏰ PRIORITY DEADLINE OCT. 1 — Institute of Education Sciences, FY27 Research Grant Competitions (5 programs, federal): Funds education researchers studying literacy, STEM, special education, and evidence-based practice. https://lnkd.in/eAu8JtZr Humanity AI, Open Call for Grants ($10M, up to $1M per award): Funds U.S. nonprofits doing community-led work to shape how AI is built, governed, and used, across education, labor and economy, and humanities/arts/culture. Deadline Oct. 21. https://lnkd.in/ghECtQku National Science Foundation (NSF), State & Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs ($100M, up to 10 awards): Funds state/regional consortia building AI research infrastructure for education and science. Deadline Nov. 4. https://lnkd.in/ewUjKJ46 NBA Foundation, Grants for Youth Workforce Development: Supports career readiness and job training for under-resourced youth ages 14-24. Applications open Oct. 1-31. https://lnkd.in/g87wB6iq Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Social Impact Funding (Up to $300,000 over 3 years + capacity-building support): Early-stage funding for organizations with scalable solutions to significant social challenges. Rolling deadline. https://lnkd.in/gzn98rwP JOB OPPORTUNITIES ⏰ PRIORITY DEADLINE SEPT. 25 — CommonLit , Director of Philanthropy (Remote, U.S., $150,000): Leads CommonLit's philanthropy team and >$20M fundraising portfolio across foundations, HNWIs, and corporations. https://lnkd.in/eDB_vhDC aiEDU, External Affairs Lead (Remote/Flexible U.S., $105,000-$115,000): Manages aiEDU's partner ecosystem and coordinates policy briefings and advocacy convenings. https://lnkd.in/ezz7byXg aiEDU, Senior Marketing & Communications Lead (Fully Remote, $125,000-$135,000): Builds aiEDU's content and media engine, from thought leadership to AI-search visibility. https://lnkd.in/e3_SeWND Springboard Collaborative, Vice President of Product Development (Remote, U.S., $252,699): Oversees curriculum and product development for Springboard's family-literacy programming. https://lnkd.in/es_R7q7a Magpie Literacy, Senior Software Engineer — Data & Infrastructure (Remote, $145,000-$160,000): Two openings — one engineer for data pipelines, one for platform infrastructure — building the tools powering Magpie's reading platform for kids. Data: https://lnkd.in/e-VyZQTM Infrastructure: https://lnkd.in/e_dx7WQw Follow NewSchools for more opportunities across the field. Happy Friday!
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Chelsey Roebuck liked thisChelsey Roebuck liked thisI’ve been thinking a lot about what actually makes a strong STEM program in our schools. We’re seeing incredible investments in robotics, AI, advanced manufacturing, fabrication and other emerging technologies in education and I’m super stoked about it. I’m a a strong believer students should have access to the technologies shaping the world they’ll inherit. But the more time I spend in STEM education the more convinced I am that the equipment is only the beginning. A room can have robots, 3D printers, CNC machines, robotic arms and every possible piece of technology available yet still not necessarily providing students with a meaningful STEM education. What matters is what we build around those tools. Are there clear learning outcomes? Does the experience progress as students develop? Are teachers given the training and continued support to confidently facilitate learning? Are students just learning how to operate technology or are they being challenged to understand how it works, design with it, troubleshoot it and create something new? Are we assessing whether students can apply what they’ve learned rather than did they completed an activity? And one of the least exciting but most important questions: so what happens after the initial investment? Technology needs maintenance. Parts need replacing. Software changes. Teachers transition. Curriculum needs updating. Students need increasingly challenging opportunities. Those things aren’t nearly as exciting as unveiling a beautiful new STEM lab but they’re often what determine whether that investment is still creating meaningful learning years later. I’ve also come to believe strongly in progression. A student’s STEM experience at 12 shouldn’t look exactly like their experience at 17. There should be an intentional pathway that allows them to move from exploration and foundational skills into increasingly sophisticated engineering, robotics, coding, CAD, fabrication, automation, AI, and real-world problem solving. And throughout that progression, something else should be happening: We should be giving students more ownership. Less “follow these instructions and build this.” More “here is the problem. What can you design?” The end goal of STEM education isn’t to produce young people who are simply comfortable using sophisticated technology. It is to develop young people who can think, create, solve, question, iterate, and build. The hardware matters. But the curriculum, the educators, the implementation, the progression and the continuity is what turn that hardware into an education. And as technology continues to evolve at an extraordinary pace I think the distinction will matter more than ever.
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Chelsey Roebuck liked thisChelsey Roebuck liked thisI’m looking forward to being with everyone at the Teach For America 35th Anniversary Summit in Las Vegas! If you’re coming, please join us on Saturday at 3:15 to hear what we’re learning in this global journey, at the session “For a Different Future, We’ll Need to Reshape Our Classrooms: Lessons From Around the World.”
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Chelsey Roebuck liked thisChelsey Roebuck liked thisI am deeply honored and grateful to be reappointed as dean of The Wharton School for a second term. From my first day in this position, I’ve embraced the immense responsibility that comes with leading this institution. I’ve seen that responsibility requires a dual focus: continuing the legacy of excellence the school has built for over a century, while also propelling that legacy forward in ways that reflect Wharton’s bold, innovative spirit. With support from the incredible Wharton community, I’m proud of all the ways we’ve accomplished both during my first term. All progress comes with obstacles – some we can anticipate and some we cannot. In Wharton's case, each challenge has demanded we take the opportunity to reflect, learn, and improve. I'm pleased with how we’ve done that together, too. What lies ahead for Wharton, and higher education in general, cannot be known for sure but undoubtedly will continue to include change. Still, I remain convinced of the unique mission only American universities can advance: creating and defining the kinds of questions that will drive monumental changes in society. I started my tenure by espousing the importance of “betting on yourself.” As I look forward, I now have the utmost confidence in saying that there is no one I’d rather bet on than Wharton to lead whatever comes next. #TheWhartonWay
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Chelsey Roebuck liked thisChelsey Roebuck liked thisExcited to announce that I’m an AWS Student Builder Campus Leader! In this role, I’m thrilled to be working alongside the NEXT GEN team to empower students, build strong tech communities, and bring hands on cloud resources, events, and workshops directly to campus. Stay tuned for upcoming events and cloud computing resources and us this link if you're looking to get started building with AWS Builder Center: https://bit.ly/4bwRLGM #awssbcl #ad
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Chelsey Roebuck reacted on thisThe Public Interest Tech field was built through collective persistence, not overnight breakthroughs. Reflecting on a decade of grantmaking with Katy Knight and Nate Wong made one thing clear: navigating the AI moment requires less hype-chasing and more investment in the unsexy work—durable infrastructure, youth agency, and deep technical understanding. Proud of how far this community has come, and even more focused on where we go next.Chelsey Roebuck reacted on thisBefore public interest technology had a name, a name tag, or a line item in foundation budgets, it was just a loose network of people asking a stubborn question: How do we make tech serve the public good instead of just private profit? In a new conversation with Nate Wong from The Bridgespan Group, President & Executive Director Katy Knight and Senior Vice President & Head of Grantmaking Joshua Elder look back at how we got here, what the movement has learned along the way, and why the current AI moment is not a reason to start from scratch, but an opportunity to build on what already exists. As we head into a season of gathering with the PIT community, the conversation is turning toward what’s next for the field: wrestling with open-weight AI models, keeping community groups from getting priced out of digital infrastructure, and asking the tough questions required for this next chapter. Read the full piece: https://lnkd.in/gn8GebbGPublic Interest Technology in the Age of AI: Lessons from a Decade of Field Building and InvestmentPublic Interest Technology in the Age of AI: Lessons from a Decade of Field Building and Investment
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Girl Be Heard is a non-profit theatre company and educational empowerment program that uses theatre to empower young women to become brave, socially conscious leaders by exploring their own challenging circumstances and, through writing and performance, raise awareness of issues affecting women and girls in their communities.
Girl Be Heard creates cutting-edge, cause-related theatre, inspired, written and performed by girls ages 12 to 21, that is thought provoking and actionable. The…Girl Be Heard is a non-profit theatre company and educational empowerment program that uses theatre to empower young women to become brave, socially conscious leaders by exploring their own challenging circumstances and, through writing and performance, raise awareness of issues affecting women and girls in their communities.
Girl Be Heard creates cutting-edge, cause-related theatre, inspired, written and performed by girls ages 12 to 21, that is thought provoking and actionable. The girls create shows about the issues they care about most, such as bullying, body image, and self-harm, and also takes on issues affecting girls worldwide such as sex trafficking and forced child marriage. Girl Be Heard’s company regularly performs their acclaimed shows at the United Nations, TED conferences, and The White House. Girl Be Heard also runs after school programs and regularly holds assemblies in public schools around the city.
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