Bryan Manuel

Career Opportunities at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
This was also another interesting session where I get to see the many careers in the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and it had a lot of opportunities where a lot of the careers look cool. I liked the panelists and their presentation about the careers and it really good eye catcher. I also liked around the end they started to talk about radars, and I though was really cool. You don't have to be in the military to work here and if I remember they said that more civilians work than military personal.

Tips for Success: Let's Ask Former and Current Students
This was a fun session to participate in as learned a lot from former students as they have more knowledge than me. So, this was another helpful session and was really happy to hear other students talk about their experience and being hopefully that will be one day.

Demonstrating STEM in the Workplace: S.T.E.M. = Show up, Tell your story, Embrace individuality, Make an impact
This session was talking about how a workplace environment and how in an environment is better when you act as yourself. The also talked about some skills are need and how to use them. DEI is a good effort to give everyone equal chance for opportunities and how it can help a group improve.

An Introductory Guide to Graduate School, Applications, & Funding for Engineers
I liked this session where I get to explore a little more about grad school and it made me think about if I want to keep counting studying. It's really interesting about much you can do after you finish with your bachelor's degree. The fact that there is a lot of benefits if someone wants to go to grad school and this session definitely made me think if I want to keep continuing.

Financial Lifestyle of a STEM Professional: Beliefs, Expectations, Choices, and Opportunities
This was a really good session where I could go understand how to become financial responsible because a lot of people have problems and this includes me as well. However, it's not because we are ignorant, but the main reason is that we don't know what to do or what can we do. I remember having financial lit class and I did learn a lot but after leaving high school it felt different. Even though the session was just under an hour I did learn a couple of new things.

Becoming A Cybersecurity Advocate
I liked this session where I learned more about cybersecurity and how it's going to become important to keep technology and learned how a career in cybersecurity actually works. Also, the different ways it takes to be in cybersecurity.

Preparing for Careers in Engineering: Opportunities in the University of District of Columbia
I really like this session as this opened my eyes that there is other university that can offer a lot of opportunities and I had fun listening to this session. This does give more options when the time comes to transfer, and I liked the amount of information they gave for their university.

Panel: Careers in Technology
Although this wasn't about my major it was nice to look about different career fields like when they were talking about AWS. Cybersecurity is becoming a huge part in the real world as the use of technology is increasing. With AI being used and they did talk about AI and how AI won't take away jobs but will need people with the knowledge of AI.

Panel: My Internship Experience
I liked this session and it felt really interesting how we all go to the same steps but take different pathways. I also felt that I learned some tips from them on how to better myself I can reach my potential to become a good student. Not only to become a good a student but learn and gain new skills.

Chemistry Career Panel: Pathways from Classroom to Career
Another interesting session where I get to learn about the pathway of chemistry. I liked this session and I liked the panelists who were there and was nice to hear them talk being in chemistry. Looking at chemistry is very interesting as the amount of research they and how they try to help to make the world better.