Everyone is welcome!

   You will love this 

   2024 Puerto Rico 

     Tour & Dance!!

   23-30 April 2024

Limited space! 🇵🇷 Join us!

Dateline is 23 January!

Click on the link for the fun-daily itinerary!! ❤️🎺

Share this flyer & video! 🎊

13 & 14 Jan 2024, 1 pm

🎂 Celebrate with us! 🎂

   Latin Dance Lessons

      13 & 14 Jan 2024

         ⭐️ Join us! ⭐️

Learn new steps & turns of Latin Dances (Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Cha-Cha, & Cumbia)!!

All ages and dancing levels are welcome! Partners aren’t required. Bring confortable shoes/soft sole.  

WHEN group-lesson: 

  2  &   3  Dec 2023

13  & 14 Jan  2024 

WHERE, new location: 

Hardee’s (private area)

4010 Col Glenn Hwy, 

Beavercreek, OH 45431

TIME: 1-2pm

    Mark your calendar!

COST: $10/person

   Any age/Cash only 

Also, private dance lessons & events (birthdays, bachelorette, weddings, quinceañeras, retirements, etc), by appointments!

¡Clases de Baile-Sorpresa para quinceañeras, chambalanes, y padres!   

       💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺

   Give & Receive Joy!

The Society Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Christmas Party,14 Dec 2023. Nice time & laughs!

Dear All,

I just wanted to send a quick reminder of our SHPE Chapter social tomorrow and encourage those “on the fence” to join us at least for a portion of the activity. No worries if you are unable to engage in the Potluck or White Elephant. The idea is to get to visit together and network for a few minutes and “exchange our season greetings”

Looking forward to seeing many of you tomorrow 🙂

Yinko Grajeda

M+1(937)409-9264 

Meet Nivia Colon-Diaz, our #LabLife feature this week! A proud alum of Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de Mayaguez and Arizona State University. Currently , she is at the helm, leading a dynamic team at AFRL, dedicated to advancing technology for the Air Force.

At AFRL, Nivia is on a mission to explore ideas for air & space domains, emphasizing collaboration across technical directorates.

Currently immersed in a fascinating project, assessing mutual coupling effects on next-gen RF sensors. Innovation in action!

Advice to aspiring STEM professionals: Nivia suggests finding a mentor who inspires you and absorbing their knowledge.

Beyond work, it’s all about family, gardening, and the joy of cooking for Nivia. Life’s a delicate balance!

Dr. Olga Mendoza-Schrock and Dr. Christ Schrock were our generous and kind hosts who open their beautiful house for our Christmas party. We had a great time and enjoyed visiting, singing, and having fun with “La Familia”

Mr. Ledé joined the Air Force Research Laboratory as the Commander’s Autonomy Technical Advisor in July 2018. In this role, Mr. Ledé oversees the entire AFRL Autonomy and AI portfolio and makes recommendations on new programs leveraging internal and external research. Mr. Ledé is the senior Air Force Research Laboratory representative in the OSD Autonomy Community of Interest and the Department of the Air Force AI Cross-Functional Team. He also serves as the autonomous Member at Large for NATO Science and Technology Office System Concept and Integration Panel. Prior to these positions, Mr. Ledé was a Program Manager at DARPA within the Tactical Technology Office and the Defense Sciences Office. Starting in 2013, he led multiple autonomy programs including Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) aimed at increasing the capabilities of existing unmanned systems via heterogeneous teaming at the tactical edge, the Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program to enable autonomous navigation of small quadcopters in a complex environment with no external sensing (including GPS) and no a priori knowledge, the Centralized Control of Commercial Drones (C3D) that provides a safe and effective mean of controlling multiple commercial UAS. Mr. Ledé also led several classified programs focused on reducing time and cost while improving the performance of UAS, as well as several counter UAS programs. In addition, Mr. Ledé developed several critical technologies to enable novel aircraft configurations including new aerodynamic effectors, new motors, and other subsystems (radios, sensor payloads, advanced fuel). Prior to joining DARPA, Mr. Ledé was the Director for Autonomous/Unmanned Systems at Raytheon Missile Systems, where he provided a vision for innovative autonomous systems concepts and products and oversaw the development of a miniature strike weapon. Before working at Raytheon, Mr. Ledé held multiple positions with Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, ultimately becoming Vice President for Advanced Concepts. At Aurora, he focused on rapid prototyping and the development of new unmanned air vehicle concepts.