Jeremy Babendure

Dr. Jeremy Babendure is the Executive Director of the SciTech Institute, the Annual Arizona SciTech Festival, Associate Professor at the College of Global Futures at Arizona State University, and a research fellow at the Institute for Learning Innovation. The annual AZ SciTech festival includes over 800 collaborators 2000 events and draws around 500,000 participants. Most recently, Jeremy launched the Chief Science Officers Initiative, transforming student voice in the conversation about STEM and education in 10 US states and four countries. Before his work in Arizona, Jeremy received his doctorate in the lab of the late Nobel Laureate, Dr. Roger Tsien at the University of California, San Diego, developing molecular sensors to detect RNA. Following this work, he and Roger launched the ScienceBridge program as a mechanism to bring current science to the San Diego schools annually, impacting ~200 teachers, ~20,000 students, and ~60,000 community members and attaining 12M+ in national grants.