Partnership Letter

This formal letter invites potential industry and community partners to collaborate with the Lewis-Palmer School District 38 on the development of a new Career and Innovation Center. The letter emphasizes the district’s commitment to workforce readiness and requests support through mentorships, internships, equipment donations, and financial contributions.

Electronics Semiconductor D38 Career and Innovation Center Sponsorship Packet

This document outlines a strategic sponsorship opportunity to support a state-of-the-art Career and Innovation Center focused on electronics and semiconductor education in Colorado’s District 38. It details multiple sponsorship tiers and the program’s mission to equip students with cutting-edge industry skills aligned with national semiconductor workforce initiatives.

District 38 – Career and Technical Education: Engineering Pathway

The Engineering program offers a robust curriculum combining theory, problem-solving, and applied design through courses in mechanics, electronics, and robotics. It aims to develop critical thinking, innovation, and real-world project experience, forming a foundational pipeline to university engineering programs or industry roles.

District 38 – Career and Technical Education:  Advanced Manufacturing Pathway

The Advanced Manufacturing program overview explains how students will gain hands-on experience with modern fabrication technologies and learn core competencies such as CNC machining, quality control, and lean manufacturing. This pathway prepares students for immediate employment or further education in high-demand manufacturing careers.

Exciting Collaboration Between IEEE Pikes Peak Section and Cool Science

Recently, Mark Heinrich, Secretary Officer of the IEEE Pikes Peak Section (PPS), took proactive steps to ensure a fruitful collaboration between the IEEE PPS and Cool Science. During a STEAM-TEAMS meeting on February 11, 2025, organized by Dr. John Santiago, Mark seized the opportunity to connect with Marc Straub, the Executive Director of Cool Science. This strategic meeting, held on March 10, 2025, at Village Inn, was a pivotal moment for both organizations.

At the meeting, Marc Straub introduced Cool Science and highlighted the upcoming Cool Science Festival scheduled from September 27 to October 12 as well as the monthly meetings ‘Science on Tap’.

Dr. Santiago initiated a discussion on the storage of STEAM demos, with Mr. Straub suggesting potential storage space at the Space Foundation’s Summer of Discovery where he has currently has space. Recognizing the importance of community outreach, Dr. Santiago emphasized the valuable leadership and volunteer opportunities that Cool Science presents for IEEE PPS members, particularly Young Professionals (YPs) and IEEE student members in the local area.

The engagement concluded with a promising outlook for a collaborative partnership between the IEEE Pikes Peak Section and Cool Science. This alliance not only fosters a strong working relationship but also opens doors for enhanced community engagement and professional development opportunities for IEEE members. Exciting times lie ahead as both organizations embark on this journey of mutual growth and innovation.

The individuals on the photo below from left to right are Mark Heinrich, Marc Straub and Dr. John Santiago.

#IEEE #CoolScience #Collaboration #CommunityEngagement

The image below from left to right are:  Mark Heinrich, Marc Straub, and Dr. John Santiago.

Schedule of Workshops/Meetings |  Work In Progress STEAM-TEAMS Notes   |  Standing TALL webinars

AI-Inpainting

As a straight-forward application of using AI, here is a simple example of cleaning up the table in the previous image where you can paint an area of the table and prompt it with a clean table.

Schedule of Workshops/Meetings |  Work In Progress STEAM-TEAMS Notes   |  Standing TALL webinars

Greenscreen Animation with Dancing Einstein

In the above animation, Dr Santiago combined standard greenscreen technology and 3D animation software after uncluttering the table with AI.

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Engineering Leadership Council (ELC)

• Employer Handbook: UCCS intends to make connections with more industry partners and facilitate their engagement with UCCS students.
• Presentation Slides by both the Dean of Engineering, Dr Ying Shang along with the Senior Design Slides by Dr. Peter Gorder
• Handout for Responses from Career Topic Workshop outlines UCCS’s current initiatives based on ideas from the Fall ELC Career Topics Workshop, as well as areas needing further development.

The active and engaged members of the IEEE Pikes Peak Section has opportunities with UCCS and the local industry through host events on campus to showcase the organization, industry resume reviews, as well as mock interviews.

In addition, the Pikes Peak Section members, especially Young Professionals,  has opportunities to mentor engineering students in contributing to their professional skills and development such as mentoring k-12 students and their parents based on the IEEE Pikes Peak Section new initiative on STEAM-TEAM events.  For schedule of STEAM-TEAMS empowerment training, please visit:  Squishy-Circuits | IEEE Pikes Peak Section.

You’ll find a number resources, including leadership and developing an entrepreneurial mindset.  The IEEE Pikes Peak Section is starting a new initiaive, Standing TALL on weekly STEAM-TEAMS training sessions, either Tuesdays or Thursdays on various topics.  TALL stands for Tuesday’s/Thursday’s Ask-Learn-Lead.  These sessions will be held either on Tuesdays or Thursdays starting on 15 Apr.  A tentative schedule can be found here:  STEAM-TEAMS’s Standing Tall Initiative.

Digital Flipbooks

The first ebook below uses the  fliphtml5 platform.  To see full screen, right click and select full screen.

The next three ebooks you need to click on the small set of brackets [ ] found near the top of each flipbook.

Please contact Dr. John Santiago if you have trouble downloading the files or viewing the ebooks.

Industry Content Platform (ICP)

The ICP is an example of an AI-assisted content transformer for industry consumption.

Dr John Santiago has been invited to be editor for the IEEE Industry Content Platform and is currently in alpha development, showing much promise at this stage.

• Our objective is to enable IEEE academic/deep research content to be more accessible and useful to a broad range of industry practitioners. So it isn’t necessarily a simplification for those who are “new” to the subject matter, as much a repositioning for a different audience and purpose. For example, we have fewer equations because they simply aren’t as relevant when identifying high-level opportunities for new technology applications.
• And we generate completely new sections – such as industry applications, implementation steps, and related Standards – because those are relevant to industry engineers, even if they may not be to the original author. When someone identifies an interesting ICP article and wants to delve into the details, there’s the link button to do that.

In other words, ICP serves in taking highly research-oriented papers and translates them to make it more digestible for those who new or less familiar with the subject matter.  The intent is to make the high-impact content valuable to the industry.

Dr Santiago is adapting the content also for STEAM-STEM articles to encourage young students to enter the STEAM-STEM disciplines with emphasis in engineering. Again, the first and primary priority of ICP is to be accessible and useful to a broad range of industry practitioners.

For IEEE members who have content that can serve others, please let Dr. Santiago know.  You can contact him at john.santiago@ieee.org.

Sample of ICP Articles

As editor,  used by or authored by Dr. Santiago here are example samples of what ICP articles can generate.  Dr Santiago experimented with some STEAM/STEM content as well. Shown below are ICP articles generated mostly by providing a URL, like a YouTube video, as an example.

Note there are many other editors that are focused on their expertise.  If you would like to become an editor for your particular specialty please let Dr Santiago know.

Shown below are sampled outputs of industrial and STEAM/STEM tutorial content along with the original source.  As a reminder, this is in alpha development that is focused on relevant use for industry.

Implementing Token-Based Neural Language Processing in Engineering Applications

IEEE Industry Content Platform

Topic: Computing and Processing

Transformers (how LLMs work) explained visually | DL5 – YouTube

Turning a $40 investment into a Interactive Projection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKCrGvShZs

IEEE Industry Content Platform Article

Note:  One middle school student implemented the video for his school below when Dr Santiago gave a presentation for a Junior Achievement program.  Although this video is dated, it’s still inspiring!

Introduction

Dr Santiago assumes that the LMAG members have a wealth of technical leadership.

To help with your mentorship activities, shown below are mentorship resources provided by Dr John Santiago based on his study of John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success.

See STEAM TEAMS meeting notes.

This web tab is currently a work in progress.  It will lead you to another webpage where volunteers have their own webpage to do outreach activities to k-12 students and educators.

Pikes Peak Section Recognition and Awards

IEEE Pikes Peak STEAM-TEAMS Challenge: Engineering the Future, One Mentor at a Time

We are happy to announce that the IEEE Pikes Peak Section was notified on 7 March 2025 as a recipient of the IEEE STEM Grant.

According to Chair, Stamatis Dragoumanos, IEEE Pre-University Education Coordinating Committee, “We received an overwhelming number of applications, 415 in all, with a wide array of program types all showing great creativity and innovation in STEM outreach and your program rose to the top! Through your efforts, IEEE will be empowering the next generation of technology innovators.”

Below is a short summary of the proposal:

What if we could engineer a mentorship-driven movement that grows exponentially? The STEAM-TEAMS Challenge isn’t just a STEM outreach initiative—it’s a scalable, self-sustaining leadership ecosystem where every IEEE member recruits, mentors, and empowers one new member per year.

In other words, the strategic goal is:

“For each year, each of the current active and engaged members, recruit one IEEE member and mentor the recruit to be an active and engaged member of the IEEE Pikes Peak Section. By your leadership example, have your recruit who is now an active and engaged member do the same as you did by recruiting one member.”

To empower the IEEE Pikes Peak Section members, we considered:

Hands-On Learning: Squishy Circuits, robotics, and AI-assisted multimedia to bridge STEM/STEAM and the future of education.

Mentorship Multiplier: Inspired by Metcalfe’s Law & Dunbar’s Number, our model ensures exponential engagement and leadership growth.

Real Impact: Built on proven and past IEEE student-driven success, including past student branch initiatives, U.S. Air Force Academy events, and Cool Science showcases.

By Year 4, ideally, this initiative will exceed 150 engaged members—empowering engineers to lead, not just follow. If you believe in the power of mentorship, innovation, and hands-on learning, join us in shaping the future of IEEE! Even if 25% successful, it will double the number of engaged and active members within the IEEE Pikes Peak Section we currently have now.

#IEEE #STEM #Mentorship #Leadership #AI #STEAM

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