Here’s what happened the weeks of Jan. 19 and Jan. 26, in case you missed it.
We are gearing up for our 2015 K-12 STEM Symposium on March 7, 2015, at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Va. This year’s theme is “The Parent Factor: How to Engage Your Kids in STEM.” The free, all-day event runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. equally engages children, parents and teachers with corporate, government, academia and non-profit executives from the STEM fields. Activities for the day will include hands-on experiments for children, government and industry exhibitors, student science fair projects and panel discussions with STEM stakeholders. Attendees will also be able to find information about government and industry STEM-related high school and college internships. For more information, click here. We expect more than 2,500 attendees.
In this week’s issue of RollCall, you’ll learn which four people have new jobs and the 10 who are celebrating a workplace anniversary.
Our Transitioning From Public to Private Sector Series continues with interviews from former Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) Executive Director for the Enterprise System Development Office (ESDO) Keith Trippie, now Chief Executive Officer of The Trippie Group LLC; former Chief Information Officer at the Dept. of Commerce Dr. Simon Szykman, now the Chief Technology Officer in the Federal Services Division at Attain; and former DNI Open Source Director Doug Naquin, now President and CEO for his own consulting firm.
TWD & Associaties has launched its own advisory board, while Fannie Mae President and CEO Timothy Mayopoulos has been appointed to SAIC’s Board of Directors.
Contracts were awarded to Salient Federal and TASC.
Finally, make sure to save the date for these upcoming local events, including INSA’s Symposium on Impact of ODNI — “A Decade of IC Integration and the Challenges Ahead” (March 3), 2015 K-12 WashingtonExec STEM Symposium (March 7), the Leadership and Ethics Conference for HS Juniors (March 19), Fairfax Chamber of Commerce 2015 Innovation Awards (April 20) and Former U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra‘s presentation at GMU’s Founders Hall (April 28).
Upcoming black-tie events include DC Heart Ball (Feb. 28, 2015), Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s 2015 Leukemia Ball (March 28) and Northern Virginia Family Service’s Road to Independence Gala (May 8).
For all of this information and more, read this week’s E-Magazine in it’s entirety here.
