| Sponsor | Speaker | Description |
| William Dick | William Dick -- Scientech Club Historian | TR's 1902 Visit to Indy: (Also OK for Emergency Use)(Sub: 3/30/2022) President Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to campaign in the non general election years. He came to Indianapolis when a medical emergency happened to him. |
| Helmi Banta | Greg Wright CFE -- Greg Wright is a Certified Fraud Examiner. | How to Pass a Polygraph: (Sub: 4/6/2023) Russian and Cuban intelligence organizations have taught polygraph countermeasures to American spies, including Aldrich Ames (CIA), and Ana Belén Montes (Defense Intelligence Agency). Thus, they passed the U.S. government's polygraph and avoided capture for many years. This talk is about the polygraph device (also called a lie detector) and polygraph countermeasures. |
| Rick Whitener | TDB | The Scientech Dialogs: We will have a better world if we had more dedicated atheists / people of faith.: (Sub: 3/8/2024) This will be a dialog with two people and a moderator. Each discussant will present his/her case for 10 minutes. After the two presentations, the moderator and the two people in the dialog will ask each other questions for 20 minutes. Members of the audience will ask questions for the remainder of the time. |
| Linda Karwisch | Jerry Karwowski -- Retired Senior Vice President, InvestmentOfficer, Wells Fargo Advisors
Carried the torch for the 1996 OlympicsIn Sports Corp. Kiwanis, Partners of the Americas, Perry Township Education Foundation, Kappa Sigma Fraternity Olympics, Russian and South America history, travel, grandchildren.
Fiesta Bowl Charities, Arizona Sports and Entertainment Commission.. | The Best We’ve Got “ He Is Living A Perfect Game”: (Sub: 6/8/2024)
The speaker will cover the remarkable life of Carl Erskine, one of the great human-rights champions of our time. From the dirt-poor alleys of Anderson, Indiana, to a storied career with the Brooklyn Dodgers’ fabled “Boys of Summer”, Carl Erskine lived the American Dream - and spent his lifetime giving it to others. After his playing days, he returned to Anderson and spent the rest of his life as a Hoosier.
Without Carl Erskine, we would not have the Special Olympics International.
Erskine with the support of teammates, Jackie Robinson and Johnny Wilson, advocated for 60 years for people with intellectual disabilities such as his son Jimmy. Carl helped effect profound social change through his core values of grace, humility and servant leadership.
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| Rick Whitener | Richard Gunderman -- Richard is Professor of Radiology at the IU School of Medicine. He is a Scientech Member and frequent contributor. | Lessons on winning from America's Second-Greatest Coach: (Sub: 7/16/2024) The life and career of Vince Lombardi includes the Green Bay Packers winning five championships in seven years, including the first two Super Bowls. Although he is associated with the view that 'Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing,' Lombardi in fact thought there are things more important than winning in both football and life.
These lessons have applied to those working in scientific discovery and the inventions that changed our lives and our society. Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, and the Curies are a few examples.
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| Ruth Schmidt | Ruth Schmidt -- Ruth Schmidt, PhD, MBA, was the program manager of the business mailer payment systems at the United States Postal Service. She has been involved in information security design, testing, and implementation for over 20 years. She is certified as a Project Management Professional and a Program Management Professional from the Project Management Institute. She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, CISSP, from the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, Inc. ISC2. | CrowdStrike Strikes the World - a Technical Analysis: (Also OK for Emergency Use)(Sub: 8/12/2024) The CrowdStrike cybersecurity Falcon platform update on July 19, 2024, caused the largest IT outage in the history of the world. The estimated cost of this outage is now over $5 billion. Ruth Schmidt will show how CrowdStrike and other companies offering cybersecurity products could improve product technical design, testing and roll out procedures to prevent or minimize the impact of future outages. She will explore how client companies can prevent outages through testing, acceptance, and contingency processes. |
| Linda Karwisch | David Nelson -- David Nelson is a Eastland Historian. Grandson of Elmer Nelson -Eastland Rescuer and welder. He is Director of Remember the Eastland. Lecturer and historian, who informs the public of this 1915 worst maritime disaster and preserves its history with nautical error in ship-building and a cause of a great loss of life..844 people died. | SS Eastland Disater: (Sub: 8/13/2024) David Nelson is an informative and exciting speaker of this historical event of the SS Eastland sinking due to failed engineering in the Chicago River before heading to Michigan City, Indiana. The ship was known for cruising the Lake Michigan from Port Huron to Michigan City and Chicago. The ship was a sailing death trap. Ship building company knew of this for years.
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| Alison Brown | Hernán Castillo-Hermosilla -- Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute
Department of Educational Studies
College of Education
www.researchgate.net/profile/Hernan-Castillo-Hermosilla
www.purdue.edu/geri | cross-cultural research on giftednes: (Sub: 8/22/2024) Drawing on experiences in diverse regions from Chile, Spain, Taiwan, and the U.S., he lends international perspectives on gifted education with scholars from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
The talk on his reaserch in gifted education in various countries will be presented at a conference held by the European Council of High Ability in Greece ib August of this year. |
| Alison Brown | Hernán Castillo-Hermosilla -- Feldhusen Doctoral Student Fellow in Education
Marcia Gentry Influence Scholar & Fulbright Scholar
MENSA Foundation Gifted Education Fellow & Dean's Doctoral Fellow
Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute
Department of Educational Studies
College of Education
www.researchgate.net/profile/Hernan-Castillo-Hermosilla
www.purdue.edu/geri | novel gifted identification methods to find gifted people forgotten in the system: (Sub: 8/22/2024) Mr. Castillo-Hermosilla will present a project explores novel gifted identification methods to find gifted people forgotten in the system by current instruments and how these other measurements may be relevant to use for additional pathways for identifying children who may be overlooked.
This research project was given an award by the MENSA Researchn and Education Foundation (he presented it this year at the Foundation Meeting at the Mensa Annual Gathering in Kansas City) and he also received the Marcia Gentry Influence Scholarship. |
| Bob Fischer | Lisa Milton -- Lisa is the Director of Natural Resources at Newfield's.
Lisa Milton has been at Newfields since May 2022. Prior, she served as the Assistant Operations and Property Manager for White River State Park. Lisa has a Masters of Science in Environmental Science with concentrations in Applied Ecology and Water Resources from the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Lisa has worked in erosion mitigation, technical theater production, and ornamental horticulture and interned with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources at the Dwight Chamberlain Raptor Rehabilitation Center at Hardy Lake Nature Preserve. Lisa is Vice President of Friends of the White River and sits on the Tactical Advisory Board for Frank’s Paddlesports Livery. She previously served as Co-Chair of the White River Waterway Committee for Reconnecting to Our Waterways and Vice President of the Board of Directors for the White River Alliance. | Newfields Hawryluk Sculpture Green Installations: (Sub: 8/28/2024) This talk will include a brief overview of the history and current management of The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park with a focus on the new sculpture installations in the Hawryluk Sculpture Green. I will discuss the successes and complications with the construction and installation of these sculptures and how these additions contribute to our overarching goals for Fairbanks Park. |