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SCIENCE CHANNEL’S ‘SCIENCE SUPER HEROES’ INITIATIVE RECOGNIZES SAUSALITO RESIDENT AS SEPTEMBER 2017 HONOREE

The Network Honors ‘Openwater’ Founder Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen

September 11, 2017

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(New York) – Science Channel announced today the crowning of Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen as a September honoree of the network’s monthly Science Super Heroes initiative. Jepsen is recognized for furthering science in her community and encouraging the next generation of innovators and problem solvers. Jepsen is honored alongside Guy Chriqui, a Senior Research Engineer at Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center.



 

Science Super Heroes will be nominated monthly from any of the following categories: Super Star (CEO or professional), Shooting Star (super fan), and Rising Star (college student).  Each Science Super Hero will be highlighted on-air on Science Channel the first Thursday of the month and across all Science Channel social platforms for the entire month. Shooting Stars and Rising Stars will receive a $2,000.00 gift card to Global Giving where they can donate to a charity of choice. Super Stars will work with Science Channel representatives to mentor and foster science-minded youth in their community.

 

Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen is the founder of Openwater whose goal is a wearable with MRI-plus resolution that can enable telepathy as well as drastically transform diagnostic costs for healthcare.  Previously she was an engineering executive at Facebook, Oculus, Google[x] and Intel. In addition, Mary Lou has founded 4 startups including One Laptop per Child where she was CTO, chief architect and delivered to mass production the $100 laptop.  Her startup CEO experience includes the world’s only fabless display screen company which was based in Taipei. She has been a professor at both MITs: RMIT in Australia and MIT in Cambridge. She is an inventor on well over 100 published or issued patents and has shipped billions of dollars worth of consumer electronics on the hairy edge of what the physics will do. She has been recognized with many awards including TIME magazine’s “Time 100” as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and as a CNN top 10 thinker.

 

Guy Chriqui is a Senior Research Engineer at Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center. His work specializes in opto-mechanical systems design and development. Guy’s current projects include the Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-optical Reconnaissance (SPIDER), a Photonic Integrated Circuit based imaging system. Guy and the lab where his SPIDER telescope is being developed will be featured in the Generation Beyond Virtual Field Trip during World Space Week, on Tuesday, October 4th at 1pm ET. Before coming to Lockheed Martin, Guy’s career path included time at Boeing, NASA, and Moon Express. His previous projects saw him leading teams to develop Lunar Micro Rovers in an effort to make a COTS rover a reality. Guy received his Masters of Science in Astronautics from the University of Southern California and his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Outside of work, Guy is an active mentor for students in robotics. His teams have won multiple world championships and over 50 regional titles as well as many design awards. This led to including him as a robotics advisor for Disney’s Big Hero Six.

 

About Science Channel

Science Channel, a multi-media business unit of Discovery Communications, is the home of all things science around the clock, including series such as THROUGH THE WORMHOLE WITH MORGAN FREEMAN, OUTRAGEOUS ACTS OF SCIENCE, WHAT ON EARTH?,  HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS, UNEARTHED, and HOW IT’S MADE. Science Channel’s programming also includes daily news updates with SCIENCE PRESENTS DNEWS and timely, expert-driven specials covering breaking science news and discoveries. Science Channel is the premiere TV, digital and social community for those with a passion for science, space, technology, archeology, and engineering, providing immersive, engaging, high-quality entertainment across all Science Channel assets including: Science Channel television network, available in more than 72 million homes in the U.S; complimentary Video On Demand offering; SCI Go app allowing viewers to catch up on full episodes of their favorite shows anytime; deep video, interactive storytelling and virtual reality at www.sciencechannel.com; and conversations on Science Channel’s popular social platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat via @ScienceChannel.

 

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