John Ornellas
Mr. Ornellas currently serves as Pearl Harbor’s Nuclear Engineering and Planning Manager in a shipyard that employs 6,600 highly skilled personnel who service the Navy’s Pacific Fleet of nuclear-powered submarines and conventionally powered surface ships. As the Senior Civilian of the Shipyard, he reports directly to Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, DC. He is…
Read MoreDr. Ciara Sivels
Dr. Ciara Sivels is a nuclear engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. She supervises the High Energy Concepts section working on a variety of projects using radiation detection and modeling. She was named an IF/THEN Ambassador in 2019 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). As an IF/THEN Ambassador…
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Captain Jason G. Seik is the Project Manager of the Hypersonic Plasma Re-entry Effects Program within the Air Force Research Laboratory located at Kirtland Air Force Base, NM. He is responsible for managing a $5 million portfolio aimed at research and development of modeling and simulating the plasma and plasma effects seen in atmospheric re-entry…
Read MoreHannah Herbst
Teenage Scientist Wows World With Her Prowess in Innovation Eighteen-year-old Hannah Herbst is a student and social innovator. At age 14 she invented a small turbine that converts energy from ocean currents into electricity – a creation that she hopes can be employed in developing countries, and was originally inspired by her desire to help…
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