Thurs 2/9 Stanford Neurodiversity Project -Network for K-12 Neurodiversity Education & Advocacy

NASA Internships for High Schoolers

NNEA meeting on Thur, Feb 9th (4pm PST), will have two great speakers coming to share their experience. Both of them have been involved in the NASA Neurodiversity Program that provides neurodiverse high schoolers with great opportunities for summer internships.

When: Thur, Feb 9th, 2023 4-5 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Please use this meeting registration link below to register in advance

https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkde2qqDIsH9yRLDPNjoZZrBvdh0IvI5Ob

Professor Lynn Cominsky grew up in the snows of Buffalo, New York, and attended college at Brandeis University, where she studied Chemistry and Physics. After graduating from college, she worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, analyzing data from the first X-ray astronomy satellite, Uhuru. When she found out that she could get paid for studying black holes, she went to graduate school in physics at MIT, and after getting her PhD there in 1981, she moved to California. An award-winning Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Sonoma State University (SSU), Cominsky is also the founder and director of SSU’s EdEon STEM Learning, which develops educational materials for NASA, NSF and the US Department of Education. Her newest NASA project is NASA’s Neurodiversity Network, which aims to develop resources and internships for teens on the autism spectrum.

Dr. Ariana Riccio is a Senior Research Associate at Education Development Center. Her work focuses on curriculum development, maker education, and transitions to employment and higher education for autistic adolescents and young adults. Her research aims to improve resources and programming for autistic youth using neurodiversity-affirming principles.Dr. Riccio has a BA in Biology and Community Health from Tufts University and a PhD in Development Psychology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.