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Eastside Catholic hosts Women in STEM panel

Published 8:00 am Monday, March 6, 2017

Eastside Catholic hosts Women in STEM panel
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Eastside Catholic hosts Women in STEM panel
From left, panelists Patricia Carroll, Elizabeth Driscoll, Katie Van Zyl, Vanessa Feliberti, Paige Ormiston and Mary Ellen Smith shared their knowledge and experience gained in STEM industries at Eastside Catholic School’s Women in STEM panel, hosted by the school’s Girls Who Code club on Feb. 15 (photo courtesy of Karen Hatch/Eastside Catholic).

Eastside Catholic’s Girls Who Code club hosted a Women in STEM panel on Feb. 15 at Eastside Catholic.

The panel, comprised of six women who work in a variety of STEM industries, shared firsthand knowledge of their education and experience. Panelists included:

• Patricia Carroll, a data scientist working to predict the risk of diseases in corn.

• Elizabeth Driscoll, who works with space craft propulsion.

• Vanessa Feliberti, who is a partner general engineering manager for the Microsoft Office 365 team.

• Eastside Catholic alumna Paige Ormiston, a user interface designer for digital products.

• Mary Ellen Smith, a corporate vice president of Worldwide Operations at Microsoft.

• Katie van Zyl, the director of product management at GoDaddy.

Both middle school and high school students were in attendance for the panel.

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