Dr. Calvin Mackie
Dr. Calvin Mackie’s keynote is scheduled for July 31
Calvin Mackie is an award-winning mentor, inventor, author, former engineering professor, internationally renowned speaker, and successful entrepreneur. He is the founder of STEM NOLA, a non-profit organization created to expose, inspire, and engage communities in learning about opportunities in STEM. Since 2013, STEM NOLA has engaged over 125,000 students — mostly underserved, low-income students — in hands-on STEM project-based learning.
A lifelong resident of New Orleans, Mackie graduated from high school with low test scores, requiring him to take special remedial classes at Morehouse College. In 1990, he graduated Magna Cum Laude from Morehouse College with a B.S. degree and as a member of the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society. Simultaneously, he was awarded a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, where he subsequently earned his master’s and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1996.