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STEM Conferences: Inspiring the Next Generation

In ninth grade, I received an email out of the blue from the media director of Summit Elementary, a local school. She was organizing a day-long STEM conference for third to sixth grade students and invited me to be a keynote speaker.

I had to read the email several times to believe what it said—she wanted me to be a keynote speaker? Aside from class presentations, I had almost no public…