Career Talks
Adult volunteers from all walks of life are invited to talk about their careers through our platform. These talks will give the kids a sense of reality, and spark passion in different areas. This may also be the first time your child get to know what you do at work. Here is the signup form if you would like to give people an insight of your career or if you simply would like to attend an event with your children.
Frank Chen: How to Become an Airline Pilot
We are excited to have Frank Chen share his experiences being an airline pilot with Alaska Air Group! Frank was an FAA certified flight instructor as well. He would be happy to address any questions you have through our Career Talks. He would show you how to become an airline pilot!
Update (07/08/2021) : Thanks Frank for the presentation! Very educational. Kids asked a ton of questions and learned a lot!
Don Sun: Presidential Campaign and Beyond
Don was the API director for Andrew Yang's 2020 Presidential Campaign. He will show us how to run a national presidential campaign, and guide us into the world of politics as well as public services.
Update 07/29/2021: Thank you Don for this wonderful learning opportunity for our middle and high school students. It was eye-opening!
Antonio Martinez: Mars Perseverance Mission
Antonio Martinez was born in Puerto Rico and attended Caltech, where he simultaneously got a BS/MS in Electronic Engineering. He currently works at Broadcom Corporation in the SerDes Applications Team. In his spare time, he volunteers as an Assistant ScoutMaster for the Los Altos Boy Scout Troop 37, Foothill College Observatory and as a NASA-JPL Solar System Ambassador. He loves all things related to astronomy. He also loves learning languages (Chinese, Arabic, French, Japanese; Spanish is his first language) and reading books. He lives with his wife in Los Altos, where they raised two children, bilingually in Spanish and English. Antonio gave the Astronomy Talk at the Palo Alto Students Foundation on August 10th, 2022. Both kids and adults loved his presentation.
Anna Zuo: Financial World Explained (TBD)
Anna Zuo is the Senior Vice President and Regional Manager at Bank of the West based in San Francisco, California. Previously, Anna was the VP SmBusBanker at Wells Fargo. She will provide her insights of the financial world in the eyes of a banker to our students through the Palo Alto Students Foundation.
Steven Sun: Leadership in Software Engineering (TBD)
Steven Sun is an engineering leader at Google with strong managerial and technical leadership skills, sound judgment, and strong desire to succeed. He has successfully built and managed high-caliber engineering teams, and led geographically distributed teams as large as 150+ engineers to deliver enterprise-class software or SaaS platform, at companies ranging from well-established large software company like VMWare to fast growing start-ups like Uber. He will teach us how to be a leader in the software engineering world.
