Event Info Join National Geographic Young Explorer Erika Bergman, who will be sharing her experiences in underwater exploration as a submarine pilot. Erika will also discuss how you too can become an explorer, and teach the next generation! She will share the impact of Girls Underwater Robot Camps across the US and the Arctic, and hopes to connect girls worldwide through underwater expeditions that they can run now.
From piloting a submersible in the Arctic to expanding the future community of submarine pilots through Girls Underwater Robot Camps (a STEM initiative to get more women into Engineering and Exploration), Erika’s talk particularly tailored to engineering and science students. As a lifelong storyteller turned manned submersible pilot Erika Bergman is a passionate ocean explorer. She studied chemical oceanography at the University of Washington while working as a diesel engineer aboard the tall ship S/V Lady Washington and a steam ship engineer aboard the S/S Virginia V. Since then she has worked as a submersible pilot for exploration, research and filmmaking. Erika is also the editor of OpenExplorer.com, a site dedicated to supporting and curating a new era of connected, citizen exploration. In addition, Erika is the co-founder of Global Engineering & Exploration Counselors, theGEECs.com, providing a network of engineering camps to girls around the world. Registration for this event has closed. |