Educational and Cultural Subaward
Overview of the program
This grant is funded by the US Department of State-Partners of the Americas and started on March 1, 2024 and will finish on August 30, 2024. A partnership between Scientific Caribbean Foundation, Inc., lead organization, and the Partners of the Americas Chapters from Puerto Rico, Nicaragua and Honduras was formed to implement the grant.
Objectives of the program
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The objective of the grant is to implement the Virtual 2024 Saturday Research Academy, a 16 weeks Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program for groups of K-14 students from Nicaragua, Honduras and Puerto Rico. The virtual program meets on Saturdays, where research mentors guide the participants in STEM research projects. Each participant will have a research project and will develop a competitive research poster that will be presented, virtually, on July 20, 2024 at the Virtual 2024 Saturday Research Academy Symposium.​
​Robert F. Murphy, Ph.D.
Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology Emeritus, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
"Science without Laws"
July 13, 2024, 11:00 AM EST
Registration - no longer available
Recording of the conference:
Dr. David S. Touretzky
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
"The Five Big Ideas in Artificial Intelligence"
June 29, 2024, 11:00 AM EST
Registration - no longer available
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Dr. Stanislav Panev
Fulbright Visiting Scholar-Bulgaria (2015) Carnegie Mellon University
"Human Activity Recognition Using Synthetic Data"
May 18, 2024, 11:00 AM EST
Registration - no longer available
Recording of the conference: Coming soon
Dr. Aaron Pereira
Fulbright Visiting Scholar
Adelaide, Australia
"Space Based Sensors for Earth Observations"
Dr. Claude Lague
Fulbright Visiting Scholar at University of Ottawa, Canada
"A Journey throughout Our Solar System"
Dr. Moez Ben Haj Hmida
Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2023) National Engineering School of Tunis, Tunisia
"The History of Artificial Intelligence"
