Community Partners

We would like to thank our many Community Partners who have so generously donated their time, talent and treasure to our students:

Business Sponsors
Abbott Laboratories Fund

Agilent Technologies
Air Products, Inc.
ALZA Corporation
Bio-Link Depot

Castillo Construction
Dental Connection
Design Worlds For Learning
ESRI Corporation
Faber Bicycles
Fast Signs

Festo Corporation
Froshman and Billings
Gadzoox Networks Corporation
Happy Vans
Hartzheim Dodge

Hitachi
Honeywell
Hypercosm, Inc.
Intel
J & E Precision Machining. Inc.
Juniper Networks

K & M Environmental
Halted Electronics
Krause Center of Innovation
Mel Cottons
National Semiconductor
Padula Lumber Co.
ProdexNet Inc.
Radio Shack
Raytheon, Multi-Media Team
Roche Pharmaceuticals

San Jose Mercury News
Seagate

SIMS Metals
Spansion
VWR International, Inc
Water Acoustics
Wild Bird Store

Xilinx

Charitable Trusts
Peter and Paula Chen Trust
Hage Family Trust
Kozlowski Family Trust
Lin Family Charitable Foundation
Praveen K. Mandal and Lynette M. Mandal Educational Fund
We would also like to thank our many Scientists, Engineers, and Graduate Students who have contributed to our program:
Ron Gerber, Retired Engineer

Air Products, Inc.

Brian Chang, Chemical Engineer

East Side Union High School District

Heidi Black, Science Fair Coordinator

Festo Corporation

Hilton "Skip" Graef
Senior Engineer

First Lego League Robotics

Steve Putz, Program Director

IBM

Dr. Ann Burrell, Senior Toxicologist
David Dubeck, Chemical Engineer

IEEE, Santa Clara County Chapter

David Fong
Mike Newell

Kaiser Genetics Laboratory

Dr. Lauren Jenkins, Director

Marine Science Institute

Jeff Rutherford, Executive Director
Megan O'Mahoney, Development Director

NASA Ames Research Center

Dr. Karen Gundy-Burlet, Group Lead and program manager for the Intelligent Flight Control (IFC)
Cara Stoneberger
Tom Claussen

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Dr. Carol Jo Crannell, Astrophysicist in the Solar Physics Branch of the Astronomy and Solar Physics
Dr. Gordon Holman, Astrophysicist in the Solar Physics Branch of the Astronomy and Solar Physics
Dr. Edward Schmahl, Astrophysicist in the Solar Physics Branch of the Astronomy and Solar Physics; also of
the University of Maryland
Foundation Donors
Adaptec Foundation

All Stars Helping Kids
Cisco Systems Foundation
Community Foundation Silicon Valley
E Bay Foundation
Edgerton Fund for Youth Math and Science Education
Electronics Arts Foundation
Flextronics Foundation
Genentech Foundation for Biomedical Sciences
Intero Foundation
Mentor Graphics
Nandalala Mission of California
Noyce Foundation
San Jose Rotary Endowment Fund
The Robert Brownlee Foundation
Toshiba Foundation of America

Individual Donors
Frank Basso
Drs. Marcel and Karen Burlet
Patricia and Paul Castro
Michael Gainer
Fiona Harding
Paul and Anne Johnson
Lauren Jenkins
Victoria Jones
Cynthia Jordan
Jerome and Martha Kozlowski
Pat and Charlene Murray
Dr. Donald Pepper
Phyllis Seaborn
Brenda Serpa
Jeff and Mary Stai
Kay Schmahl
Larry and Jennifer Schmahl
Walter Schmahl
Alex Tang
Joshua Thaler
Clyde and Lisa Visser
Drs. Philip and Gregory Wolkstein


Nonprofit Supporters
Aquatic Outreach Institute
Association of Engineering Geologists
Bay Area Earth Science Institute
Coalition for Excellence In Science Education (CESE)
Cubscouts, Pack 286
Estrella Family Services
Expanding Your Horizons, SJSU
First Lego Robotics League
Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County Fair Play Program (GSSCC)
Marine Science Institute
Morrison Planetarium Star Lab Program
NASA/Ames Research Center
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
NCCAVS
Polish American Engineering Club
Resources for Families and Communities (RFC)
Resource Area for Teachers (RAFT)
Santa Clara Valley Science And Engineering Fair Association (SCVSEFA)
Saint Vincent de Paul
SUNBEAMS Program Washington DC
The Tech Museum of Innovation
Synopsys Outreach Foundation
Nextest Corp.
Rich Feldman, Electrical Engineer, MSEE Cal Tech

Post Naval Graduate School, Monterey

Dr. Tony Healey

San Jose State University

Dr. Sally Veregge, Chairman, Department of Biological Sciences, past Expanding Your Horizons Program Coordinator
Dr. Elizabeth McGee, Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. William Murray, Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. Sabine Rech, Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. Julio Soto, Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. Katy Korsmeyer, Program Director, Santa Clara County Biotechnology Education Partnership, Department of Chemistry, San Jose State University
Dr. Jane Day, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and past Expanding You Horizons Program Director
Dr. Brian Holmes, Department of Physics
Dr. Vasundhara Rangaswamy, MD., Clinical Laboratory Sciences Program, Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. Gareth Williams, Department of Physics
Dr. Ludwig Mayer, Department of Chemistry
Dr. Ellen Metzger, Department of Geology
Wynn Joe, Science Education Resource Center
Arlene Almendras, Graduate Student, Department of Biological Sciences, currently employed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Tom Clemes, Graduate Student, Clinical Laboratory Sciences Program, Department of Biological Sciences
Cheryl DeSouza, Graduate Student, Department of Biological Sciences
Pam Dietz, Graduate Student, Department of Biological Sciences currently employed at Xenogen
Sharon Hoyt, Graduate Student, Department of Biological Sciences
Darcy Levee, MS, Department of Biological Sciences
Dawn Sells, Graduate Student, Department of Biological Sciences
Kirsten Smith, MS, Department of Biological Sciences
Kathy Tran, MS, former graduate Student, Department of Biological Sciences-currently employed at Applied Bioscience
Jerry Kakkanad, Department of Biological Sciences

Santa Clara Valley Science and Engineering Fair Association (SCVSEFA)

Dr. Ann Burrell, also of IBM
Dr. Karen Gundy-Burlet, also of NASA Ames
Heidi Black, also of ESUHSD
Gary Robinson, Synopsys Outreach Foundation, Executive Director

Stanford University

Dr. Karla Kirkegaard, Virology and Microbiological Sciences
Dr. Juan Florez, School of Earth Sciences
Dr. Ayako Kameda, School of Earth Sciences

Stab Lab, Project Astro

Tinka Ross, Program Director
Dave Rodriguez, Program Instructor

The Tech Museum of Innovation

Dr. Doris Chin
Kathy Howe
Dr. Tom Keating, Program Director
Dr. Barry Starr

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