2025 Speakers

Raina White, Dartmouth College – 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Topic: Dartmouth Formula Racing and Formula Hybrid

Carson Taylor from Epic Games/Fortnite – 12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Topic: Careers and trends in the video game industry

Jennifer MacDonald, COO ARMI/BIOFabUSA – 1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Topic: Transforming the Future – Biomanufacturing and the future of ReGen Valley

Andrew Mitchell, president, North Light AI – 2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Michael Decelle – 3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Dean, College of Professional Studies at UNH/Principal Investigator for the Common Campus Initiative
Session Topic: Common Campus Initiative

2025 ATTRACTIONS

Robots, Robots and, more Robots.
First Robotics will be demonstrating some of their robot builds as well as many other exhibitors at the event.

Dartmouth Formula Racing Hybrid Car
Dartmouth Formula Racing is a student run team at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering that designs, build, and drives a custom racecar each year at SAE’s Formula Hybrid Electric Competition.

STEM–MoBILE UNH Manchester
The STEM-MoBILE (STEM Mobile Biofabrication Integrated Lab Experience) is a traveling lab which brings the science of biofabrication all over the state of New Hampshire. As the combination of biology, engineering, manufacturing, and automation, the aim of biofabrication is to produce biological substitutes or personalized living tissue and organs for living systems as treatments to organ disease or traumatic injury.

More to come!

2024 Speakers & Attractions

SYDNEY ROLLINS – 11:30 a.m. to 11:40
STEM-Mobile Project Manager, STEM-Mobile Biofabrication Integrated Lab Experience

Dr. Sherman Bigornia – 11:40 a.m. to noon
Associate Professor of Nutrition, Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, University of New Hampshire
Session Topic: Brain Food: Research helps us guide eating decisions. The power of STEM Research, one bite at a time.

ZACH UMPEROVITCH – 12:15 p.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Zach’s Contraptions, Co-host Contraption Masters, Producer Domino Masters, Rube Goldberg Machine Expert

Chris Rake – 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, FIRST
Session Topic: The Critical Role of Caring Adults in Nurturing STEM Youth

BRIAN BRADY – 1:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Founder and CEO, Of Inciting Incident Game Design and Development Studio
Session Topic: Design Hacks: Tricks game developers use to keep you playing (update this)

FRANCIS TARASIEWICZ – 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Weather Observer Educational Specialist, Mount Washington Observatory
Session Topic: Extreme weather observations from the top of Mt. Washington

ERIC SALOVITCH – 3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Owner of Northam Survey, LLC
Session Topic: An Aerial Advantage: How drones are impacting the Land Surveying and other industries – 3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.