Aayenda talks with Elysse Grossi-Soyster about viruses and Covid-19. Elysse also shares about her top secret vegan Chocolate peanut butter recipe and working at NASA,

Elysse is a PhD student with the Microbiology and Immunology department at Stanford University's School of Medicine. She works there, too, as a community health educator. She was a virologist at a lab and is the founder of the non-profit organizaiton, STEM Outreach Collective.

And Aayenda's silly sister, Satori, shares a silly STEM joke.

Aayenda talks with Thidarat Sawai, a PhD candidate at Oregon State University in Mechanical Engineering:Thermal Fluid Sciences. Thidarat researches and develops appropriate technologies for solar water heater in different applications, with particular interest in creating environments for successful solar heating and solar power policy in Thailand.

She talks with Aayenda about how she makes our future Earth a better place for kids like Aayenda, and Satori tells a silly joke about the sun.

Aayenda talks with Winnie Tafempa Messa, a Safety Systems Engineer at Daimler Trucks North America. Winnie works to continuously improve the automotive industry by enhancing drivers' safety. She tells Aayenda about the Optimus Prime truck that Daimler created for the Transformers movie, and Satori tells another silly joke.

Aayenda talks with Holly Manjarrez, an Aerospace Engineeer at the Sierra Nevada Corporation, about her work with the Dream Chaser, a multi-mission space utility vehicle selected by NASA to transport crew and cargo to low-Earth orbit (LEO) destinations such as the International Space Station.

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Aayenda talks with Paola Torres-Andrade about wood decay, fungi and mushrooms.

Paola Torres-Andrade is a PhD candidate in Wood Science and Engineering in the Wood Protection Lab at Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis, Oregon studying wood decay ecology. Paola is also an Adjunct Professor at Universidad del Cauca.

The episode ends with Satori's Silly STEM Joke

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