Research & Service Leadership Symposium
Congratulations 2024 RSLS Participants & Thank You to the Community!
RSLS presenters, what a day! You wowed us all with your projects and poise as you brought your months of hard work to over 450 people who attended the Symposium.
Thank you presenters, mentors, facilitators, administrators, FHDA Foundation, students, jusdges, 17³Ô¹Ï employees, and community attendees for making our 7th annual RSLS an amazing event!
Congrats Award Winners & Finalists!
View the List of Finalists & Award Winners for 2024
Couldn't attend the Award Ceremony? Not sure who won? Want to see yourself, your mentees, your friends and family members in the winner's circle? View the Award Recipients below:
Reflecting on the May 16, 2024 event!
More than 250 presenters, 169 presentations
This year the Research and Service Leadership Symposium had a record number of presentations and presenters, as 17³Ô¹Ï combined forces with our Dual Enrollment students in PAUSD. This hybrid event featured Zoom and on-campus presentations and activities that you can continue to explore in the materials below. View the event slideshow, share your favorite presentations, and get inspired for next year.
View the Event Slideshow
View Project Titles, Descriptions, and Presenter Bios
Print the Official Program Schedule
RSLS 2024 Program Overview
Experience the event again by reviewing the overview of the day and evening program. Click on each item for more details.
9-9:30 a.m. Opening Ceremony with Keynote Speaker, Violet Saena, in Dining Hall (2201)
FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Violet Saena is the founder and executive director of Climate Resilient Communities,
an organization that supports under resourced communities of color at the frontline
of climate change and sea-level rise. Her dedication to elevating community voices
and responding to environmental injustice is rooted in her lived experience in the
South Pacific.
She has served as an international climate change expert with the United Nations’ Least Developed Countries and Small Island States to protect communities from the impacts of climate change. She now works in the Bay Area partnering with governments, research institutions, and community-based organizations to build community capacity to respond to climate change and sea-level rise. Violet also serves as the equity program manager for the Bay Area Climate Adaptation Network, an environmental justice advisor for the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, and a community advisory council member to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
Violet has a master’s degree in environmental management from Duke University, a bachelor’s in environmental studies from the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, and postgraduate diplomas in environmental and climate change management from Dresden University in Germany, Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and Waikato University in New Zealand.
Currently, Violet is a Distinguished Visitor at Stanford University and her residency is on Environmental Sustainability.
10 a.m.–4 p.m. On Campus Presentations in Altos (2019), Council Chambers (2018) & Hearthside (2313)
- Use the Official RSLS 2024 Program Schedule [Available May 13] for a complete program with listed presentations!
- You can attend presentation sessions on the hour throughout the day, beginning at 10 a.m.
- Make room in your schedule for the full day, or just an hour.
- We invite you to sample individual projects, explore themes, or absorb the event from morning to late afternoon.