The School of STEM, Engineering Pathways, and the Learning Resource Center hosted the STEM Alumni Transfer Panel to celebrate Earth Week on April 20-24.
 
Current students and alumni virtually participated and shared transfer experiences, internship opportunities and work adventures that helped them with their journey. Alumni focused on STEM majors varying from computer science, chemistry, biology, engineering, and statistics. 
 
“It's imperative and valuable for students to build their network and community now, and I applaud our alumni for their willingness to mentor our current students,” said Patricia Gill, Norco College STEM services developer. 
 
The event was scheduled to occur face-to-face as part of STEAM Week, but due to the circumstances, the STEM staff decided to take a leap of faith and go virtual.  
 
“I reached out to former students to participate on our alumni panel expecting to schedule five speakers - one for each day - and was ecstatic to have 22 alumni respond,” Gill said. “Each have a special bond to Norco College and attribute their success to mentors, opportunities, and resources they received here.”  
 
View list of Norco College STEM alumni participants below:
 
    1. Marsella G. Ortiz, Chemist at Thermo Fisher Scientific
    2. Angel Jimenez, Cyber Security Analyst at Southern California Edison
    3. Matt Johnson, Software Engineer at Survey Monkey
    4. Ria Shiv, Software Engineer at Google
    5. Shirley Yan, IOS Engineer at Keep Truckin
    6. Tiffany Pan, Software Engineer at Square
    7. Raul Gonzalez, Mechanical Engineer at Plasmatreat North America
    8. Go Ito, Sr. Science Integration Analyst at The Walt Disney Company
    9. Miguel Toledo, Associate Field Scientist at Apeel Sciences
    10. Ahmad Abu-Elhaija, Biology at UCLA
    11. Brittnee Sempasa, Electrical Engineering at UC Riverside
    12. Seda Shirinian, Human Biology & Society
    13. Ceasar Navarro, Mechanical Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona
    14. Mohamad Hilal, Civil Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona
    15. Brenda Lopez, Mechanical Engineering at UC Riverside
    16. Maria Bello-Carrillo, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology and Pre-Dental at UCLA
    17. Rushil Rawal, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at UCLA
    18. Juan Carlos Guzman, Environmental Engineering at UC Irvine
    19. Edgar Carlos, Biology and Biological Sciences at UC Irvine
    20. Cameron Clark, Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz
    21. Burhan Alestwani, Electrical Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona
    22. Jessica Osanyinpeju, Biology at UCLA
 
To view their bios, go to www.norcocollege.edu/studenthighlights