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Meet Deidre Holmberg

I’m a STEM Education Consultant.

🌐 Website

🔥 What drives Deidre

“I am driven by new opportunities to network, to grow my businesses, and to help students engage in meaningful, rigorous STEM work by training their teachers on best engagement practices. I love meeting other creative entrepreneurs. In addition to my 9-5, I am excited about making art, learning to repurpose everything, and getting into the local real estate market.”

🌈 Deidre‘s vision for the Tri-Cities

“We should ignite, in all of our citizens, a passion for community building, a commitment to greener energy solutions, and a desire to be more welcoming to newcomers and new businesses. There are so many ways to do this, and many of the ways are already underway.”

⭐️ Tiffany Chadha on Diedre:

“If you ever hear someone using the term ‘garbage barge’, you can trace that person back to Deidre.”

Deidre’s recommendations

🌮 Food

Cauliflower/goat cheese appetizer from The Bradley

🤸‍♂️ Activity

I truly love Drewboy Creative art shows. I love the free public tours at LIGO and the B-Reactor. I also dearly love hiking in and around the Tri-Cities.

👩🏽‍🎤 Artist

Davin Diaz is my favorite local artist and entrepreneur-I have one of his paintings hanging in my living room.

🌳 Location

Howard Amon Park. I love to walk or bike along the river (my friends and I started a Lady Bike Gang-all are welcome), and support local entities like Northwest Paddleboarding, Greenies, and Allied Arts.

👥 Group

I was recently appointed to the STEM Education Innovation Alliance by the Governor. I am very excited to be to meet other STEMinists from around the state.

😄 People

Anne Spillman for leading the ever-expanding offerings at ACT for students.

Darlene Mercer for working so diligently for children in foster care and brightening our community with dance.

Joe Jacobs and David Lippes for giving me sound advice on starting my small business.

Davin Diaz for Drewboy Creative art scene improvements

💪 Projects

STEMCore Consulting is heavily invested in leveraging local STEM resources so all kids can benefit from the best our community has to offer.

I recently interviewed to be on the Economic Development Committee for the City of Richland. I'm not sure I was a fit. Any other ideas?

I am always looking for a Spanish-language support team for students and families during STEM activities.

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✨ Fresh news

Tri-Cities man with lung disease summited Mt. Rainier Kennewick seeking nominations for the 2019 Historic Preservation Award Columbia Basin College booming: 1,700 *new* students this semester Benton County consolidates its building, planning, and road services into one location “The Simon & Garfunkel Story” will be at Toyota Center theater this October This PDF I found from two weeks ago says that Mission Support Alliance earned a Sustainability Award

👇 This week’s news

Plot twist: anonymous complaint against Tom Moak and Don Barnes was made by fellow Port commissioner Novakovich Sea lions in crosshairs of agency looking to protect fish Hanford officials are weighing cleanup options for waste that won’t be treated by the vit plant, but they don’t feel like they have a clear enough picture of how best to do that Dept of Ecology seeking public input on cleanup of industrial waste in Pasco landfill Richland and BPA offering free assessments to help businesses lower their energy consumption

👇 More from this week

Critics connecting Beauchamp to ex-in-law’s fraud

Sept 20 deadline for comments on new proposed overtime laws. Opinion for: New protections are good for work-life balance Against: L&I should go back to the drawing board.

Celebrating Our Immigrant Community through the Arts event this Saturday Hanford History Project has multiple events planned this week and next in celebration for B-Reactor’s 75th anniversary TCH: Mattis says divisiveness our greatest threat. Canceled wolf meetings show he’s right.

Walking maps of downtown Richland and the Parkway updated by the city

Complete pre-season round-up of area high school football teams Saturday’s RiverFest features entertainment, food, and education on the benefits of area dams Benton County is collecting hazardous waste for free this Saturday Tri-Cities’ hot market attracts outside buyers WSU Tri-Cities entomology professor wins National teaching award Uptown Art Walk has an open “call for zombies” flash mob Blue Bridge getting cleaned and re-painted

👈 News from last week

Badger Club to debate whether exemptions should be allowed to mandatory vaccine requirements Kennewick maps all its public art New program documents Pasco’s African-American history Project to create Community Hope Wall at site of Zambrano-Montes shooting needs financial support Demolition done, construction starts on new craft cocktail bar Daves across the Tri-Cities feel a little less Famous today as another BBQ joint goes up in savory smoke New Kennewick Goodwill opens this Friday Washington state mulling changes to cannabis regulations

🐴 Horse news

A horse was thin

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