{"id":832,"date":"2020-12-16T21:32:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T02:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tjptsa.com\/?p=832"},"modified":"2021-01-13T17:00:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T22:00:48","slug":"2021-01-diversity-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tjptsa.com\/archive\/2021-01-diversity-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"2021-01-11 6pm-6:45pm PTSA Diversity Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PTSA Diversity Committee of the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) is launching a series of&nbsp;<strong>Diversity Talks<\/strong>&nbsp;webinars in January!&nbsp; This series is especially for elementary and middle school students in grades 4-8. Join us to hear from people working in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. What sparked their interest in STEM?&nbsp;What did they study in school?&nbsp;What kinds of jobs do they do? What else would you like to know?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark your calendars for&nbsp;<strong>Monday, January 11, at 6 p.m.<\/strong>&nbsp;to hear the first speakers of our Diversity Talk series:&nbsp;Suresh Shenoy, Neena&nbsp;Shenoy&nbsp;and&nbsp;Nikhil Shenoy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suresh&nbsp;Shenoy, a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology,&nbsp;is a business leader and philanthropist who has contributed deeply to&nbsp;many&nbsp;aspects of the northern Virginia community. He was&nbsp;executive&nbsp;vice&nbsp;president at&nbsp;Alyx Technologies Inc., a Virginia-based consulting and technology services company.&nbsp;Mr. Shenoy was a founding member of the Thomas Jefferson Partnership Fund and served on its board until 2002.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neena Shenoy is a&nbsp;mechanical&nbsp;engineer by training (Tufts University 1981 and MIT 1984). She was involved in designing&nbsp;aircraft&nbsp;engines for GE and worked on the&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;Space Shuttle program for NASA designing some critical components. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nikhil Shenoy graduated from&nbsp;TJHSST in 2002, MIT in 2006 and the University of Chicago in 2014.&nbsp;After working at Goldman Sachs, Proctor and Gamble, and Kastle Systems,&nbsp;he&nbsp;is now CEO of&nbsp;Colvin Run Networks,&nbsp;a company&nbsp;that&nbsp;he started in&nbsp;northern Virginia to offer&nbsp;artificial&nbsp;intelligence and&nbsp;blockchain solutions to governments.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parents, register&nbsp;at this Zoom link:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/TJDiversityTalk1\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/TJDiversityTalk1<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Submit questions in advance here:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/tjdiversitytalks\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/tjdiversitytalks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video of the event: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ohfcdek8t7c\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ohfcdek8t7c\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ohfcdek8t7c<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PTSA Diversity Committee of the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) is launching a series of&nbsp;Diversity Talks&nbsp;webinars in January!&nbsp; This series is especially for elementary and middle school students in grades 4-8. Join us to hear from people working in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. 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