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IEEE PIKES PEAK SECTION!!!
5 May 2026: Denver Cyber Security Summit
Download IEEE Pikes Peak Section Computer Society Flyer for booth visitors
Download Flyer for IEEE Denver Section’s Build Something Cool
This was a team effort. Gene Freeman led this team for this Denver Summit Mark Heinrich and Senthil Mehalingam participated in an AI panel as described below, as well as Dr John Santiago, provided some of the flyer handouts using AI-assisted software:
Abstract
AI and new digital technologies will continue to shift the cybersecurity landscape in 2026. This session explores how modern tools can enhance detection, response, and decision making while introducing new risks tied to generative systems, data integrity, and fast moving threat innovation. Leaders will gain a clear view of how to adopt emerging technology in a responsible and strategic way that supports resilience and aligns with enterprise risk goals.
Key Takeaways
• How AI and emerging tech are reshaping core security functions
• The new risks created by generative models and evolving attack techniques
• Practical governance steps that support responsible AI use
• Examples of organizations pairing innovation with disciplined risk management
Below is the AI Panel, as well as the flyer from the IEEE Pikes Peak Section (PPS) Computer Science Chapter.
Also handed out at the booth is a flyer for IEEE Denver Section related to STEM events.
The AI Choice is ‘We the People’!
AI Is Not the Problem — Unstructured Learning Is.
The real danger of AI is not automation.
It is cognitive outsourcing without mentorship, feedback, or reconstruction.
In engineering, we would never trust:
• a simulation without validation
• a model without assumptions
• a system without feedback loops
Yet many students are now using AI exactly that way:
Copy → Submit → Forget.
That is not learning.
That is dependency.
But there is another path.
AI can also become a cognitive amplifier when combined with:
✅ curiosity
✅ critique
✅ reconstruction
✅ application
✅ mentorship
The future workforce will not simply need people who can “use AI.”
We will need people who can:
• question AI
• validate AI
• override AI
• improve AI
• lead responsibly with AI
This is why I believe the future of education is not:
“AI vs Humans”
It is:
Human Judgment × AI × Mentorship = Responsible Human Advancenent
The attached visual illustrates two futures:
1️⃣ AI Dependency
2️⃣ AI Amplification
The difference is not the technology.
The difference is the system surrounding the technology.
This is one reason why frameworks like STEAM-TEAMS, KEEN, systems engineering, and structured mentorship matter more than ever.
AI is the tool.
Thinking is the power.
What do you think?
👉 Is AI weakening critical thinking…
or exposing weaknesses that already existed in our educational systems?
#AI #Education #Leadership #IEEE #STEM #SystemsEngineering #CriticalThinking #Mentorship #EngineeringEducation #STEAM #PyramidXOS
Leadership Blockchain: A Modern Metaphor
Below is my first cut of this metaphor based on the IEEE Pikes Peak Section body of work. It will also give you an idea of blockchain and its broad societal and economic impact.
The video below is based on a article: Does the quote “A Leader Builds Other Leaders” Resemble a Blockchain? – IEEE Region 5. The URL of this article was used as a source in NotebookLM and produced the video below.
2026 Follow-up State of the Section’s STEAM-TEAMS Pilot (7:00 minutes)
Below is video sharing best practices and lessons learned from this IEEE 2025 TryEngineering STEM Grant.
27 April 2026: Monthly STEAM-TEAMS Meeting
Register here: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/554342
16 May 2026 (Sat): Build Something Cool
Register here for Call of Volunteers: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/551440
The above link should have a link for only interested families who want their kids in grades 6th to 12th build something cool in this event.
Here is the link you can send interested families: https://msudenver.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0wHW3gZggBEYotM
Download Presentation on Engineering Leadership That Scales: A Systems Approach for IEEE Volunteers and Professionals
Critical Thinking in the AI Age
STEAM-TEAMS Mentorship Challenge (continued)
Below is a short video on this continuation of the STEAM-TEAMS challenge for 2026. For this upcoming new year, this initiative continues with interested sections who would like to participate. We will be planning to use the PhET Demos Simulations for Photonics along with the SNAP-Circuits Light in continuing support for this initiative. Below is a video reminding what the STEAM-TEAMS mentorship challenge is all about.
(continued)
For sections who are interested in participating in this STEAM-TEAMS challenge, please visit https://r5.ieee.org/pikespeak/phet-demos-photonics
WHEN TECHNOLOGY MEETS IMAGINATION
2025 IEEE TryEngineering STEM Grant
Please visit mini website and report on IEEE STEM Grant
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Using STEAM as a Catalyst for Sustainable Leadership Capacity February 23, 2026 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM21c Library — Pikes Peak Library District1175 Chapel Hills DriveColorado Springs, CO 80920 Engineers Know [...]
