Dr. Alyson Freeman
Director, Data Center Sustainability
Dell Technologies
Ani Nishanian
Three-time National STEM Champion
National STEM Champion
Anirudh Rao
Student Innovator
Colorado
Anne Dorsey
Technical Lead Manager
Waymo
Ashu Anand
Student
Washington Univ.
Avika Rastogi
Flight Crew
STEM Next
LT Cecilia A. Fosu-Garrett
Officer
U.S. Navy
Chloe Callahan
Corporate Responsibility
Qualcomm
Dr. Cori Lathan
Neuroscientist · Biomedical Engineer · Technologist
Dan Mantz
CEO
Robotics Education & Competition Foundation
Forrest Valkai
Biologist & Science Communicator
Valkai Labs
Francisco (Cisco) Vicenty
Director, Continuous Improvement, ACT Quality & Regulatory
Getinge
Dr. Huzefa Rangwala
Staff Applied Scientist
Siemens USA
Issa Geisendorfer
Student Innovator
Illinois
Jacob Wycoff
Meteorologist
WBZ-TV Boston
Jake Easter
Policy Advisor for AI, Education and Workforce
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Jamie Simpson
Chief Policy Officer and Counsel
Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP)
Jenny Buccos FRSA
CEO & Founder
EXPLR
Jeremy Shorr
Education Consultant & Futurist
Joanna Deng
Student Council
2026 National STEM Festival
Kari Byron
Festival Co-Director · Former MythBuster, Discovery Channel
Kevin DeBruin
Science Communicator & Former NASA Rocket Scientist
Space Class
Levi Dunn
Student Innovator
Tennessee
Lloyd Whitman
Founder and CEO
Whitman Advisors
Lydia Logan
VP of Global Education and Workforce Development
IBM
Maya Trutschl
Student Innovator
Louisiana
Dr. Megan Wilkerson
Chief Scientist
Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE)
Hon. Michael Cadenazzi
Assistant Secretary of War for Industrial Base Policy
U.S. Department of War
Nichelle Thinagar
Student Innovator
Massachusetts
Dr. Owais Durrani
Emergency Medicine Physician & Medical Analyst
Reanna Patel
Student Innovator
New Jersey
Rishika Singh
BS, Healthcare Biology
Methodist University '26
Rosita Najmi
Executive Director
Micron Foundation
Sara Leikin
Chief of Global Learning Experiences and STEAM Partnerships
COSI
Scott Drach
Vice President of Human Resources, Boeing Global, Corporate Functions
Boeing
Stacey Weismiller
President/CEO
American Manufacturing Futures Institute
Stephen Gorham
General Manager
OPSWAT Federal
Sydney Hamilton
Aerospace Structures Engineering Manager
The Boeing Company
Tom Smith
Educational Game Designer
Roblox
Dr. Tracy Fanara
Environmental engineer, scientist, and science communicator
Project ENKI
Tushar Mehta
Two-time National STEM Champion
National STEM Champion
Tyler Malkin
Student Council
2026 National STEM Festival