Highland Park Science & Technology Festival 2021-2022

Science teacher is a Tech Titan

Highland Park High School AP and organic chemistry teacher Wenzen Chuang has been awarded the “Tech Titans of Future” award by the Technology Association for North Texas, the largest technology trade association in Texas.

The Tech Titan award recognizes a high school math or science teacher for the development and implementation of an innovative teaching technique or program that inspires student interest in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM). Chuang was nominated for the award by former student Cameron Laurie, a current sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin studying medicine.

In his nomination form, Laurie credits Chuang for encouraging him to pursue a career in science. “He truly stimulated my enthusiasm for science and my desire to pursue medicine in order to take what I have learned in my education and use it to help people for the greater good.”

Former HPHS student and current aeronautical space engineering student at Texas A&M August Ryan submitted a letter of support to accompany Chuang’s Tech Titan nomination. Ryan wrote, “He has been an inspiration to hundreds of students during his time at my high school, and I believe he deserves recognition for his brilliant teaching and pedagogy.”

Chuang joined the HPHS faculty in 2000. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry and a master's in instructional technology from Texas Tech University. Chuang also coaches the HPHS UIL Academic Team and serves as president-elect for the Texas Math and Science Coaches Association (TMSCA).

“Wenzen Chuang is truly a master educator,” HPHS Principal Jeremy Gilbert said. “He has the unique talent of challenging his students with high-level content while offering support tailored to the needs of his students. The results consistently are not only successful students, but more importantly, happy students.”

“All that I’ve been able to do throughout my teaching career has not happened in a vacuum,” Chuang said. “I have my wife, family, colleagues and school administrators to thank for their support. I’ve been fortunate enough to end up in a school that is as exceptional as Highland Park High School, and I am humbled to receive this recognition.”

Chuang was featured in the Park Cities People’s January 2023 STEAM newspaper insert as an award-winning chemistry teacher. The story appears in Section B on page 40.

“I believe the purpose of education is to learn how to think and technology is a huge part of it,” Chuang said. “We learn by making mistakes. The use of technology allows students to take chances and try something new, make mistakes, learn from those mistakes and then try again.”

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We are so excited that even though the first Science & Technology date was cancelled because of ❄️ we were able to reschedule for March 25th. Thank you to our committee, teachers, pta Prez, and Principal Gilbert for working so hard and making the new date work!

Happy international Women’s Day to these amazing ladies who have worked so hard on the 2021-2022 Science & Technology Festival!
The new festival is scheduled for March 25th. The HPHS students got to choose their new speakers this week. Thank you ladies…you are absolutely amazing!

We wanted to highlight our previous Co-Chairs amazing son who has been named a 2022 US Presidential Scholar Candidate. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Christopher Ryan Carmack has been named a 2022 US Presidential Scholar Candidate. Of nearly 3.6 million high school seniors graduating this year, Ryan Carmack is one of approximately 5,000 students selected. Established in 1964 by the Executive Order to recognize our nation’s most distinguished graduating seniors, this June, 161 graduating seniors will be chosen as a U.S. Presidential Scholar to visit the White House and get awarded a Presidential Medal from the President of the United States.

Ryan Carmack’s outstanding accomplishments include a perfect SAT score of 1600, a 4.69 GPA, a National Academic Decathlon Silver Medalist, a National Merit Semi Finalist, Boys State Supreme Court Justice, and several gold, silver, and bronze medals in State competitions for Computer Science, Math, Science, and AcDec. In addition, at 16yrs of age, Ryan founded his own company, Zrem Technologies, to bring AI and robotics into the home.

We are very sorry that HPHS Sci-Tech Festival will not happen tomorrow Feb. 4th as scheduled due to school shutdown under inclement weather condition. Stay tuned for further notifications.

HPISD campuses and offices will be closed Thursday, Feb. 3 and Friday, Feb. 4 due to the approaching winter storm and forecasted hazardous driving conditions.

All Thursday and Friday after-school extracurricular games, events and activities, including classes offered through Academy for Lifelong Learning, have also been canceled or postponed.

Visit the HPISD Event Cancellations webpage for the most current listing of cancellations. This page will continue to be updated as information about rescheduled events becomes available. https://www.hpisd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=930616&type=d&pREC_ID=1358959

We are bummed that the Science & Technology Festival is going to have to be rescheduled because of weather ❄️ and hpisd schools are closed Friday. Stay tuned for our new date…probably late March. In the meantime stay safe, warm, & let it snow let it snow let it snow ❄️

Jonathon Licker PhD will be speaking to the students about “A Food Scientist's View:
Product Development in
Food & Beverages”

Marvin Chang will present to the students about “Goldman Sachs is a Tech Company" & Other Half
Truths/Lies at the
Intersection of Finance &
Tech (Fintech)

Alison Zou science division Science “Flares and Planet Habitability”
Daughter of our fearless leader .zhao

Henry Fowler winner engineering division “DEER Rocket”

Luke Ting Science division “Alzheimer's Protein”

Jake Wood winner in the Technology division of the 1st annual Science & Technology student festival “Changing Our Reality, Virtually”

Caitlin Samson student Winner in the Science division “Gut Health Project”

We kicked off the 16th Annual Science & Technology festival today with an amazing Keynote event! inspired everyone by talking about a growth mindset. Daniel Alegre was inspiring with his talk about “looking around the corner” and “how important it is to be inclusive in life and business”. was just plain inspirational and asked all of us to be inclusive and kind. was so proud of all of the student participants and was the perfect person to give those hard working students their awards and $500 scholarships. GB Stalnaker was our first student presenter and I have a feeling he might be a future keynote. Wow wow wow! Huge to our sci-tech fest committee that have worked so hard. I’m sure we will never know how many lives the festival actually inspires. #

GB Stalnaker absolutely killed it today presenting at the keynote event “Restoring & Cataloging
a Native Texas Ecosystem”
What an amazing young man! A sophomore at HPHS his submission to the 1st annual student Science & Technology festival has the highest overall score.

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Please join us today at 1:30 for the Keynote Event. Encourage your students to come!

Highland Park High School Science and Technology Festival Keynote Event Daniel Alegre President & COO of Activision and Jamie O'Banion CEO of Beauty Bio share their personal stories of science & technology.

Larry Flournoy with Earth X Omni Globe will present to the students
“Earth X Omni Globe”
In this fascinating presentation Mr. Flournoy offers a first hand, 3D look@at the inner workings and models of global wind currents, the continental drift, tsunami simulations, seasonal fires and air traffic models.

Matt Tranchin Senior VP of Impact Earth X will present to the students about “Achieving the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals (SD6s)”

Dr Rajiv Dahiya will present to the students “From Doctor to Tech Entrepreneur:
Leveraging Your Skills to
Try Something New”
His new tech startup Voterbee measures human sentiment by allowing users to ask questions and receive answers in real-time with associated emotional feedback. Sounds fascinating 💡

Ryan Woodson with Halliburton will be speaking to the students about “The Energy Transition, A Career Plan”

One of our very own Ray Brown PhD HPISD will be speaking to the students about “Presents There
is No Such Thing
as a Poison?
Fundamentals of
Toxicology in Our
Everyday Lives”

Robin Patel with the Mayo Clinic is presenting to the students about Presents
“From Science Fair
to Serving as a Scientific
Society's President”

Courtney Kelly P.E. Will be speaking to the students about “Constructing the
Future of DFW”

Frank Coyle who is a local SMU professor will be speaking to the students about “Computers
in Your Future”

Scott Drennan CEO and founder of Drennan Innovations will be speaking to the students about “Sustainable
Aviation”

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We are so excited that Salam Elahmadi PhD with Menara Networks will be presenting to the students about “Fiber Optic
Communications”

Sejal Pietrzek will be speaking to the students about “Artificial
Intelligence (AI) & Software Are Changing
the World”