STEM Conference
The STEM Conference was created in 2013 to broaden students’ understanding of these topics and promote passions for careers in the STEM disciplines by inviting professionals in these fields to visit St. Mark’s.
As former STEM Conference Committee Member Kevin Lu ’24 puts it, "The conference boils down to providing a platform for students to engage with cutting-edge innovations, network, learn from professionals and apply their classroom learning to real-world scenarios."
As former STEM Conference Committee Member Kevin Lu ’24 puts it, "The conference boils down to providing a platform for students to engage with cutting-edge innovations, network, learn from professionals and apply their classroom learning to real-world scenarios."
Past Guests
2025
Dr. Zeb Hogan ~ Research Associate Professor of Biology. University of Nevada, Reno
Nick Orenstein ’01 ~ Founder and CEO of HStar; Board Member of SpaceX
Andrés Ruzo ~ Founder and Director of the Boiling River Project
2024
Joey Beckman ’03 ~ Technical Program Manager, AeroVironment
Joshua H. Choe ’16 ~ PhD candidate, Harvard University
Dr. Qixing Huang ~ Associate Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin
2023
Dr. Stacy Pritt ~ Associate Vice President, Research Support and Regulatory Management, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Andrew Gatherer ’14 ~ Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer, SpaceX
Sara Ord ~ Director of Species Restoration, Colossal
2022
Jeb Beckwith ‘80 ~ CFO/CAO, Clean Origin
Rubik Sheth ~ Branch Chief, Life Support Systems Branch at NASA’s Johnson Space Center
Dr. Austin Fowler ~ Senior Research Scientist, Google’s Quantum Hardware Lab
2021
STEM Conference Podcast featuring discussions with professionals and researchers in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, and Space Exploration.
2020
Alan Katz ~ Former Chief Technology Officer of ES Xplore Inc
Naia Butler-Craig ~ Aerospace Engineering PhD student and GEM Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology; NASA Pathways Intern
Jodi Cooley ~ Assistant Professor at SMU, dark matter research
Murat Çobanoğlu ~ Distinguished Fellow at the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics at U.T. Southwestern Medical Center, computational drug discovery
2019
Wyatt Smith ~ Head of Business Development for Uber Elevate
Gideon Powell ~ Co-Founder and CEO of Autonomous Crypto Corp.
Taft Armandroff ~ Professor of Astronomy at UT Austin
Dr. Kesha Harris-Henderson ~ Radiation Oncologist at Baylor University Medical Center
2018
Dr. Rhonda Bassel-Duby ~ Department of Molecular Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Karen Morton ~ Collections Manager, Perot Museum of Nature and Science)
Bill Woodburn ~ Founding Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners
2017
Jeremy Ginsberg ’96 ~ Software Engineer; Former VP of Engineering at Twitter
Will Ferenc ’09 ~ Lead Sensors Development Engineer, SpaceX
Amy Patrick ~ Forensic Engineer
Lydia Pyne ~ Science Writer and Historian
2016
Mark Stevens ’05 ~ Software Engineer, Google
Dr. Chess Stetson ’97 ~ CEO, Helynx, Inc.
Dr. Bradford Hirsch ’87 ~ Oncologist; Senior Medical Director, Flatiron Health; Co-Founder, SignalPath Research
Dr. Gary Weinstein ~ Chief of Pulmonary/Critical Care, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital
Carl Zimmer ~ Science writer, New York Times contributor
2015
Anna Kuchment ~ Scientific Journalist
Dr. Max Klein ’00, Ph.D. ~ CTO of SCI Technology, Inc.,
Heather Olins ~ Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
2014 Conference Guests
Dr. David Genecov ’82 ~ Craniofacial and Cosmetic surgeon
Dr. Alan Stern ’75 ~ Planetary Scientist
Dr. Zeb Hogan ~ Research Associate Professor of Biology. University of Nevada, Reno
Nick Orenstein ’01 ~ Founder and CEO of HStar; Board Member of SpaceX
Andrés Ruzo ~ Founder and Director of the Boiling River Project
2024
Joey Beckman ’03 ~ Technical Program Manager, AeroVironment
Joshua H. Choe ’16 ~ PhD candidate, Harvard University
Dr. Qixing Huang ~ Associate Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin
2023
Dr. Stacy Pritt ~ Associate Vice President, Research Support and Regulatory Management, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Andrew Gatherer ’14 ~ Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer, SpaceX
Sara Ord ~ Director of Species Restoration, Colossal
2022
Jeb Beckwith ‘80 ~ CFO/CAO, Clean Origin
Leanne Su ~ Ph.D. Candidate in Aerospace Engineering at the Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory at the University of Michigan
Dr. Lizzie Mcleod ~ Global Reef Systems Lead, The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Lizzie Mcleod ~ Global Reef Systems Lead, The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Austin Fowler ~ Senior Research Scientist, Google’s Quantum Hardware Lab
2021
STEM Conference Podcast featuring discussions with professionals and researchers in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, and Space Exploration.
2020
Alan Katz ~ Former Chief Technology Officer of ES Xplore Inc
Naia Butler-Craig ~ Aerospace Engineering PhD student and GEM Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology; NASA Pathways Intern
Jodi Cooley ~ Assistant Professor at SMU, dark matter research
Murat Çobanoğlu ~ Distinguished Fellow at the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics at U.T. Southwestern Medical Center, computational drug discovery
2019
Wyatt Smith ~ Head of Business Development for Uber Elevate
Gideon Powell ~ Co-Founder and CEO of Autonomous Crypto Corp.
Taft Armandroff ~ Professor of Astronomy at UT Austin
Dr. Kesha Harris-Henderson ~ Radiation Oncologist at Baylor University Medical Center
2018
Dr. Rhonda Bassel-Duby ~ Department of Molecular Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Karen Morton ~ Collections Manager, Perot Museum of Nature and Science)
Bill Woodburn ~ Founding Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners
2017
Jeremy Ginsberg ’96 ~ Software Engineer; Former VP of Engineering at Twitter
Will Ferenc ’09 ~ Lead Sensors Development Engineer, SpaceX
Amy Patrick ~ Forensic Engineer
Lydia Pyne ~ Science Writer and Historian
2016
Mark Stevens ’05 ~ Software Engineer, Google
Dr. Chess Stetson ’97 ~ CEO, Helynx, Inc.
Dr. Bradford Hirsch ’87 ~ Oncologist; Senior Medical Director, Flatiron Health; Co-Founder, SignalPath Research
Dr. Gary Weinstein ~ Chief of Pulmonary/Critical Care, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital
Carl Zimmer ~ Science writer, New York Times contributor
2015
Anna Kuchment ~ Scientific Journalist
Dr. Max Klein ’00, Ph.D. ~ CTO of SCI Technology, Inc.,
Heather Olins ~ Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
2014 Conference Guests
Dr. Brett Giroir ~ Biomedical Researcher
Dr. Michael Gould ~ Agricultural EngineerDr. David Genecov ’82 ~ Craniofacial and Cosmetic surgeon
Dr. Alan Stern ’75 ~ Planetary Scientist
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St. Mark’s School of Texas
10600 Preston Road
Dallas, Texas 75230
214-346-8000
Dallas, Texas 75230
214-346-8000
About Us
St. Mark’s School of Texas is a private, nonsectarian college-preparatory boys’ day school for students in grades 1 through 12, located in Dallas, Texas. St. Mark’s aims to prepare young men to assume leadership and responsibility in a competitive and changing world.
St. Mark’s does not discriminate in the administration of its admission and education policies on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin.
St. Mark’s does not discriminate in the administration of its admission and education policies on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin.
