We’re just getting started; please excuse our mess as we build!
Our mission is to self-sustainably nurture engineering innovation by empowering everyone – especially little girls – to find joy in STEM. Through hands-on research, development, and creative problem-solving, we aim to foster curiosity, grow math fluency, and inspire the next generation of female scientists and innovators, creating a future where women are equally represented and celebrated as leaders in scientific discovery and innovation.
About us:
The Founder CEO, Lashel S Devich, MD, as a materials engineer and surgeon, has spent much of her life in male-dominated arenas. She has watched gender attitudes hinder the progress of individual women, and given the larger sweeping effects of history, she founded payload Optics to do its part in eradicating gender discrepancies in science, technology, engineering, and math.
How we are different:
Our model is grow math fluency through hands-on engineering offered to children of any age. Working on their own invention with our staff engineers, each child will organically learn and understand the utility of the language of mathematics. Engagement with that invention from conception to full fruition will foster resourcefulness, self-reliance, and agency.
Crops of children that grok this, that know in their bones that they can do things and do them well, will result in more innovation in our country, which will in turn stabilize and strengthen our international standing.
Our first project will be passive visualization and diagnosis of the human body.
Our team:
Lashel Sophia Devich, MD
Mohab M Ibrahim, MD, PhD
Karen Moran
Sasha Naugler, DVM, DACVR
Pamela Pelletier, PhD
We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit, so everything you contribute is 100% tax deductible!
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