2025 STEM Conference

Schedule

9:00 am - Register

9:30 am - Welcome

9:45 am - Opening Keynote Speech

10:30 am - Workshop 1 & 2

11:30 am - Lunch/STEM Panel

12:30 pm - Workshop 3 & 4

1:30 pm - Workshop 5

2:30 pm - Closing Remarks

Workshop 1: She Creates - Balance & Vision: Designing the Life you Want

Location: Auditorium

About: Feeling pulled in every direction? Balance & Goals: Designing the Life You Want is an interactive workshop designed to help you reclaim control of your time and energy. Learn practical strategies for achieving work-life balance while using a guided goal-setting template to define clear, actionable steps toward your personal and professional aspirations. This session blends reflection, intention, and structure—leaving you empowered with a plan to move forward with purpose and clarity.

Workshop 2: Ginger Kerrick - Leadership Lessons from Mission Control

Location: Board Room

About: Leadership Lessons from Mission Control – Ginger provides an insider’s look at the values and culture behind NASA’s successful human spaceflight missions showing leaders how they can leverage the Mission Control model in their own organizations to chart a course for growth, resilience, innovation and excellence, even in today’s rapidly-changing world.

Workshop 3: City of El Paso - Stand Out & Step Up: Mastering Resumes, Interviews, and Networking for Success

Location: Board Room

About: Unlock the secrets to making a lasting impression in your professional journey! Whether you’re applying to your dream job, a competitive internship, or a graduate program, this workshop will equip you with essential skills to stand out. Learn how to craft a compelling resume, ace interviews confidently, and build meaningful professional connections. Through practical tips, you’ll leave ready to take the next step in your STEM career with confidence.

Workshop 4: Schneider Electric- Speak Up, Stand Out: Mastering the STEM Elevator Pitch

Location: Auditorium

About: Lean how to effectively sell your brand and tell your STEM story in 60 seconds or less.  You never know when you will encounter someone with a valuable connection at a conference or industry event.  Having a clear and concise pitch with a sense of confidence can make a memorable and positive first impression. 

Workshop 5: C.A.R. by Pioneers 21 (Challenge, Assemble, Refine)

Location: Auditorium

About: The workshop will center around a hands-on engineering challenge where participants will design and build a balloon-powered car. The goal is to simulate real-world engineering constraints, encouraging problem-solving, creativity, and teamwork—essential skills for STEM careers. Through this interactive activity, participants will explore key engineering concepts like motion, friction, and propulsion, while also taking on distinct roles within their teams (such as engineer, designer, and tester) to mirror real-world collaboration in STEM fields.

Speakers

  • Ginger Kerrick

    Barrios Technology

    Chief Strategy Officer



  • Carolyn Patrick

    City of El Paso

    Interim Director

  • Lilly Iglesias

    She Creates Board President

    El Paso Electric

  • Rani Bush

    Spaceport America

    Business Operations Manager

  • Laura Morris

    Long Term Scheduler

    El Paso Electric

Gold Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

A Message From Our Founder

It is my pleasure to invite you to our Annual Women In STEM Conference in El Paso, Tx.
I'm here to be a voice and represent the women that make up 9.4 % of mechanical engineers in the workforce. Women are underrepresented in the field of science, engineering, technology, and math (STEM).
The El Paso and Las Cruces communities value the need for diversity and inclusion. Advocating for STEM within our community encourages the current and next generation to increase innovative thinking and enables the development of creativity, curiosity, and ingenuity.
I will be hosting a STEM conference for women in the workforce, and for women currently enrolled in college. This conference is a movement to build excellence, cultivate talent, and create an empowering community of women in the STEM field. Women will learn how to thrive and flourish in a male dominated industry.We will have a panel with the most successful leaders in the science, engineering, and technology industry. These leaders will share strategies, their insight, and provide tools to help other women achieve their full potential to thrive in their own personal lives and career path.
In addition, I'm here to inspire and create a spark in women and girls of all ages. Our workforce, our students, our children , and our community need the encouragement to show them that they are capable of becoming the next innovator, the next astronaut, the next scientist, or the next women owned tech company.
I hope you can join me for this amazing event.
Kindly,
Missy Lazo Aveytia