Last month, SHPE Board Chair Miguel Alemañy wrote about how SHPE is helping to change lives by empowering the Hispanic community to impact the world through science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Alemañy said this year’s virtual convention had almost 9,700 registrations.
During the event, there were over 90,000 screening interviews, 200 exhibitors, and a stream of events from webinars to interactive sessions, to fireside chats with industry leaders, he said. Read the excerpts below.
“We were able to help every student who needed relief or help with the registration, we attracted back almost all the IPCs who had to leave during the pandemic, and helped a record number of people connect with their dream job, not to mention all the training, life stories, awards, experiences, and importantly, networking across the country,” Alemañy added. Read on:
“I often ask people, “who are our most critical and valued individuals in SHPE?” And I invariably get a myriad of answers. Our student members, after all, are why we exist, to help them. Our professional members give back to the organization and they are critical to our success. The IPC, they fund about half of our expenses so we can do our job. Our academic partners help with the source of talent for the organization. And similar responses. All of which are 100% true, these groups are critically important for us and without them, we wouldn’t have the organization we have. However, I believe the most critical group and most important for SHPE is our staff.
“Several worked nonstop around the clock for days, over weekends, without any real breaks just to get things moving. And I saw many who I’d swear had the ability to be in three places at the same time. And not everyone was remote, some were with the production company working and fixing glitches as they happened so the public never experienced them. More incredibly, not once did I hear any of them complaining about the exhausting work, nothing, nada. All the conversations were very positive, either troubleshooting, planning for the next event, or helping someone else do well. It was an incredible act of selfless service in the interest of SHPE, in the interest of the greater good, and I thank each and every one of our staff for this.”
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