14 Oct Team Orange County breaks ground on Solar Decathlon house
Though there was only one woman among 10 speakers at the groundbreaking ceremony Friday for the Solar Decathlon, Alexander McDonald made it clear who was really in charge.
“STEM is too important to leave to the men,” he said, paraphrasing the late University of Cambridge computer science professor Karen Spärck Jones. “It is the leadership of our women that is going to help us win this competition come 2015.”
As project manager of Team Orange County and a mechanical engineering graduate student at UC Irvine, McDonald recognized 10 women integral to the project, including architect Lindsey Engels of LPA, Inc.; Julie Yang of Carrier Johnson Architects; Jennifer Manfre, Edison International’s senior communications adviser; and advisers from the four participating colleges.
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