IEEE Pikes Peak Section STEAM TEAMS Community Outreach Challenge & Initiative: Empowering Active and Engaged Members
This meeting will give a status report on IEEE STEM grants and the partnership with COOL science. In our case, COOL = Collaboration, Outreach, Operatons, and Logistics. Also note that
STEAM=Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts/AI, and Mathematics) initiative
TEAMS=Transparency, Education, Accountability, Mentorship and Sustainability. In other words, Together Everyone Accomplishes More Stuff if that is easier to remember.
🎉 Be Part of Our Monthly Meeting!
📅 Date: Monday, 21 April 2025
🕔 Time: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
📍 Location: 21st Century Library, ENT Conference Room
📍 Address: 1175 Chapel Hills Dr., Colorado Springs, CO 80920
Below are some sample demos with more simulations & more advanced demos during the upcoming months.
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We can accommodate more guests and kids since ENT conference room is much larger, consisting of one main conference area and 3 breakout rooms
Dr Santiago calls these COOL rooms, C1, C2, and C3.
C1 is for STEAM demos demonstrated in the first three meetings for kids and parents to explore.
C2 is for evaluating new STEAM kits for possible purchases in the future for the section
C3 is planned for newcomers who entered this initiative after 17 Mar 2025.
Other functions for these rooms will be explained at: STEAM-TEAMS notes (work-in-progress)
🌟 What’s This All About?
Led by Dr. John Santiago, past IEEE Faculty Advisor (CTU, 2007–2019) and IEEE Pikes Peak Chair (2019–2023), this initiative will focus on:
✅ Developing 10 interactive workstations for the educational community outreach, featuring hands-on demonstrations from past student projects and new STEM/STEAM experiments.
✅ Participating in local STEM/STEAM outreach programs, including:
COOL Science and volunteer opportunities to help and support Marc Straub, President/Director of Cool Science
Engineering Summit
Space Foundation – Summer of Discovery
Job Fairs, Science Fairs & More!
District Libraries throughout Colorado Springs & Pueblo!
🛠 What’s on this Agenda and Beyond?
🔹 More STEM grant opportunities
🔹 Distribute STEM/STEAM Kits to interested section members who want to be empowered with their word-of-mouth marketing (one-on-one or in group setting)
🔹 Showcase of Past Student Projects
🔹 Brainstorm and test new educational applications.
Arduino-based Scarecrow Tracker
Flying Drones & Flight Basics
DIY Motors & Solar STEM Kits
…and more!
🔹 Exploring AI in STEM – Boosting productivity & learning.
🔹 Planning Future Meetings & Expanding Initiatives.
🌍 Why This Matters
This initiative aligns with IEEE Region 5 goals to:
✔ Build the Student-to-Young Professional Pipeline
✔ Develop Leadership Among Volunteers
✔ Strengthen Industry Engagement
Supports IEEE Pikes Peak Section Strategic Goals:
📌 Enhancing professional skills
📌 Increasing member engagement
📌 Supporting workforce development
📌 Investing in STEM education
🎤 Meet Our Speaker
Dr. John Santiago, Past IEEE Pikes Peak Section Chair (2019–2023), Region Educational Activities Coordinator for Region 5 (REAC) and Section Educational Outreach Committee (SEOC) member (2023-Present), Webmaster for the IEEE Pikes Peak Section, (2017-Present), Faculty Advisor for the IEEE CTU Student Branch (2008-2019)
Date and Time
Location
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- Date: 21 Apr 2025
- Time: 11:00 PM UTC to 01:00 AM UTC
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- 1175 Chapel Hills Dr., Room B6
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
- United States 80920
- Building: 21st Century Library
- Room Number: B6
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- Starts 15 April 2025 06:00 AM UTC
- Ends 21 April 2025 06:02 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
John of IEEE Region 5 Educational Activities Coordinator (REAC) and Retired United States Air Force Officer
STEM/STEAM Workstations
Schedule of Past and Upcoming Meetings, Meeting Notes and Other Info:
Schedule of Meetings and Meeting Notes (see other tab): Squishy-Circuits | IEEE Pikes Peak Section
Notes on upcoming meetings: STEAM-TEAMS-notes | IEEE Pikes Peak Section
In addition to hands-on activities, please bring your laptop for hands-on activities on physics PhET Demos | IEEE Pikes Peak Section and math simulations (PhET Demos – Math | IEEE Pikes Peak Section) as well as some demos of AI-assisted image generation.
Biography:
Dr. John Santiago served 26 years in the U.S. Air Force as a research and development engineer, as well as an engineering manager, gaining leadership & technical experience in many engineering disciplines, systems & missions: large flexible space structures, communications, electro-optical systems, high-energy lasers, missile seekers, image recognition, information technologies, space, air & missile defense & homeland defense.
He retired again during 2019 from an 18-year career as a full-time professor, including over 4 years at the USAF Academy. John is continuing to work with the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), a collaboration of 40+ universities & colleges while publishing several papers at the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) using the KEEN framework.
The framework combines the technical skill sets & the entrepreneurial mindset, to revolutionize the teaching of engineering.
As a professor of electrical & systems engineering, he taught 40+ courses in engineering, physics & math including 12 graduate courses, authoring 50+ papers, presentations & receiving several educator awards.
Email: john.santiago@ieee.org
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Address:United States
Agenda
Continuation of 11 Feb 2025 kickoff meeting...
- Introductions
- STEM Grants Report
- STEM Kits and COOL Rooms
- Scaling the Community Outreach
- Practical AI Image-Generation Demos to close the meeting
- Short Survey