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THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, January 6, 2023 Page 7 Zonta Club of Malden honors 3 Fellows at Annual Amelia Earhart Dinner on Jan. 19, 2023 at Anthony‘s T he Zonta Club of Malden is excited to announce the Annual Amelia Earhart Dinner. As part of their ongoing efforts to empower women, especially in Science and Technology, Zonta International in partnership with Zonta Clubs of Malden and Chelsea will be awarding 3 women a $10,000 fellowship for their Doctoral research. Our 2022 Fellows that are being honored are: Adriana Mitchell - Aerospace engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Ms. Mitchell is developing a “smart” solution to the visual navigation problem with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory by using machine learning to perform visual navigation across different image types, including visual images, thermal images and RADAR images of potential future planetary lander candidates, like Mars, Titan and even Venus, where only RADAR can penetrate the thick atmosphere to image the surface. Her results will help give future missions access to new locations currently unreachable by current visual navigation techniques as well as helping to continue to improve landing accuracy on Mars and the Moon. Madeleine Schroeder - Aerospace engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA In her doctoral research, Ms. ~ Letter to the Editor ~ Dear Malden Councillors and residents, Concerned residents and the Friends of the NEMT Forest shared a presentation about the Northeast Metropolitan Regional Technical School (NEMT) building site at the Friends of the Malden River meeting in December of 2022. Informed residents are interested in understanding the NEMT Building Committee’s choice of the most expensive and least favorable building site as reviewed and rejected in pre-feasibility reports. The media and many residents, including municipal leaders, have been misinformed about the chosen building site. In February of 2021 - Massachusetts School Building Authority posted that the new VOKE would be constructed on existing developed land. 11 out of the 12 member (of NEMT district) communities voted in favor of a much needed new facility. The Friends of the NEMT Forest understand the need to improve and expand the outdated facility. A new VOKE will be an asset to all of our region. Many people are unaware of the potential impacts that this hilltop building site entails. The NEMT Forest advocates endorse the need for a new VOKE but disagree with this choice of building sites with minimal public outreach and input. The third choice of building site (forested hilltop C) raises the costs about $40 million in greater site work, raises concerns about accessibility for all students, especially those with disabilities, and destroys 13 acres of forest that harbors wetlands and vernal pools. The City of Malden is in the midst of creating a Climate Action Plan, participating in Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Programs, investing in stormwater management plans, and working on other much needed actions to protect and improve our existing green and blue space. We cannot look away from this vital thirteen-acre forest while other options exist. I thank you in advance for joining one of these Zoom informational meetings. Friends of the Malden River Informational Zoom meetings are on Wednesdays and Sundays. Wednesdays Topic: Wednesday NEMT Forest + Build the Voke Time: Jan 4, 2023 07:00 PM Eastern Time Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom. us/j/81993529978?pwd=cGVxcTdSU3ozSnV5UDBickxnQW9TUT09 Meeting ID: 819 9352 9978 Passcode: 973736 Sundays Topic: NEMT Forest + Build the Voke Sundays Time: Jan 8, 2023 06:00 PM Eastern Time Every week on Sun, until Feb 19, 2023, 7 occurrence(s) Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom. us/j/85478671726?p - wd=YlFQR1MzT3RTYVRZUExCMGhzd2thdz09 Meeting ID: 854 7867 1726 Passcode: 564985 WE CAN HELP PAY YOUR HEATING BILLS! You may qualify for ABCD’s Fuel Assistance Program and be eligible for as much as $2,200 towards your heating costs (oil, gas, or electric). Maximum benefit is $2,200 Household of 1 = $42,411 Household of 2 = $55,461 Household of 3 = $68,511 Household of 4 = $81,561 Cold days are coming. ABCD’s got you covered. Schroeder will develop and experimentally validate a comprehensive molecular model of the evaporation and fragmentation of ionic liquids to determine why ion clusters of different sizes are emitted and how these clusters fragment under different conditions. She will design new experimental methods to characterize the effects of cluster emission and fragmentation on propulsive efficiency in addition to other factors that affect system performance. This information will be used to design electrospray hardware and operating conditions that improve propulsive performance and system lifetime. Maya Nasr Ms. Nasr is passionate about increasing global representation and access in the space sector and bringing awareness to nationality-based discrimination in career opportunities for foreign nationals. She is a TEDx talk-featured speaker about this topic and is currently the co-founder of the HUMANS— Humanity United with MIT Art and Nanotechnology in Space—project that creates a symbolic avenue for space access worldwide, and is intended to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in partnership with the MIT Space Exploration Initiative (SEI). As part of the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) Space Law & Policy Project Group, she is currently the policy lead for the SGAC Taskforce on U.S. Space Policy. Additionally, she is the lead of the Space Resources and Space Ethics & Human Rights subgroups with the goal of peaceful and equitable use of outer space. The Annual Dinner will take place at Anthony’s in Malden on January 19, 2023 at 6:30 in the evening.We hope you will join us to learn more about the research and studies of these women in their own words. More information on the Amelia Earhart dinner, the Fellows, Zonta Club of Malden and tickets can be purchased at ZontaclubofMalden.com. APPLY TODAY! Last day to apply is April 30, 2023 Residents of Boston, Brookline, and Newton: 178 Tremont Street, Boston, MA — 617.357.6012 Residents of Malden, Medford, Everett, Melrose, Stoneham, Winchester and Woburn: 18 Dartmouth Street, Malden, MA — 781.322.6284

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