Outreach & Affiliations
We are humbled and Honored to support and promote the following charities
Justin's Triumph
Memorial Fund for Luc Gruenther
Trumbull Has Helped Sponsor
Military Scholars Program
Veterans Business Battle
Rice Drone Camp
In collaboration with Workshop Houston and Spindletop Charities, Dyan served an an EcoBot Challenge judge at Space Center Houston Drone Competition.
Dyan serves on NASA JSC - Space Center Houston’s Board.
March STEM event (with masks, alternating rows, with 3-empty seats between families). During the Q&A portion, I dialed into a White House call on Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) and the students & parents exclaimed hello to the US Deputy CTO and US GPAI experts.
For the last few years, Trumbull and Autonome partnered with Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition at the Summit. This year, we jumped to 65+ students from across HISD and Houston.
Ivanka Trump & Dyan discuss the importance of STEM & supporting military families on Dr. Oz.
Girls, Inc. keynote to 2,000 San Antonio STEM students (8-14) STEM + your passion = your superpower.
Trumbull supporting a virtual reality STEM station at the Houston Air Show “Wings Over Houston”
In 2018, STEM event, flying competition, and lecture at Yale University with local students.
Texas A&M Drone Day, graduate & undergraduate engineering students (Bryan TX | Dr. Murphy).
For a few years, Trumbull supported STEM and drone-focused events at West University Elementary School in Houston.
Onstage with BP's Chief Diversity Officer Ray Dempsey, Dyan performs a STEM demo at the Women's Global Leadership in Energy Conference in Houston, Texas.
At NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), Trumbull, alongside Rice University and Kino-Eye Center supported Microsoft YouthSpark with NASA JSC leadership and Space Center Houston. Microsoft held this YouthSpark event (Feb 2018) for Houston High Schools focused on aerospace.
In March 2018, Trumbull supported BP’s STEM Day at The Village School in Houston. Students flew Parrot drones inside BP’s safety net, while standing outside the net. Trumbull captured a group photo with an Intel F8+.
In February 2017, Trumbull supported Youth Bowl with Microsoft and Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL). During the sessions, Trumbull demonstrated UAVs and discussed STEM career options and paths with undeserved youth.
Trumbull created Rice Drone Camp with the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) and BP. Each year, Drone Camp served as a free weeklong camp dedicated towards underrepresented 6-8 graders. The first year, BP sponsored Drone Camp, and 3DR supported. Then, BP, Microsoft, and Trumbull sponsored the second year and Parrot supported. This summer, Trumbull will support the 4th annual Rice Drone Camp! Microsoft has served as an integral partner each year.
SERVICE FIRST
Trumbull supported Service First a free STEM initiative to support military children. By promoting K-12 STEM education to children of Active Duty service members and veterans, we aim to offset any potential educational imbalances resulting from frequent geographical relocations and to create a sustainable pipeline to meet the technological demands of a 21st century economy.
The Service First initiative was co-created by Trumbull and the Kino-Eye Center, with BP as a founding partner, and the ongoing support of Microsoft. We are working through initial partnerships and collaborating with Veteran Service Organizations. The pilot iteration of Service First rollout scheduled for Houston is delayed due to Harvey flooding.
With BP, Trumbull supported a STEM career day in December 2016 for 40 motivated 8th-grade young women at Paul Revere Middle School in Houston. That day, the young women interacted with augmented reality as part of other STEM experiments. In addition to UAS operations, discussion topics included digital footprints, cyber security, and advancements in technology and data analytics.
In April 2017, Trumbull supported Microsoft YouthSpark at the Dallas Myerson Symphony Center. The Dallas Morning News highlighted speakers Dr. Bernard Harris, the first African-American astronaut to perform an extra-vehicular activity (spacewalk) and Stedman Graham who discussed self-mastery.
Trumbull collaborated with Microsoft and the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership. The focus is serving underrepresented youth and showing STEM as an avenue to spark interest and create career options to junior high and high school students.
In 2016 and 2017, Trumbull developed a 12-week curriculum for Intel’s Innovation Generation global STEM initiative for underrepresented youth to learn and apply technical and vocational skills.
With Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL), Trumbull supported T.H. Rogers STEM Night in 2016 and 2017. During STEM Night, Trumbull brought several types of Parrot Drones and another drone to get K-8th graders excited about potential STEM careers and understand required coursework to pursue a career in STEM.
In 2015, the American Petroleum Institute, BP and USHCC (U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce) and Dyan spoke to 140 excited 4th-grade girls in Houston. Trumbull participated in STEM experiments to expose young girls to technical careers serving in the energy sector.
Working with the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL), Trumbull helped create the Rice Owls Aerial Robotics Club (ROAR). Trumbull served as ROAR’s Corporate Partner and instructed flight training, STEM and UAS applications.
Rice University Police Department led a Youth Academy for underserved youth in July 2016. Trumbull teammates supported Youth Academy in speaking roles and also performed flight demonstrations to motivate attendees to pursue college and use STEM to create opportunities. Harris County Sherrif's Department performed a helicopter demonstration. Other keynote speakers included BP digital innovation, a Navy SEAL, and former Houston Texan.
In 2015, Trumbull supported Rice Liftoff for all freshman engineers. Dyan served as the keynote speaker. She discussed how UAS/drones could be applied in any industry to make legacy processes better, faster and safer. Dyan aimed to inspire and motivate freshman engineers to be prepared for jobs the UAS industry will create.
Trumbull supporting a STEM event for 4,000+ Houston Independent School District (HISD) students in 2015 at Rice University in the Tudor Fieldhouse.
STEM event and talk with Link (girls) with Dow in Lake Jackson approx. 1-hour south of Houston
The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) selected Dyan to speak on UAS safety, integration, and benefits as part of a 2015-2016 Distinguished Lecturer global speaking tour. Dyan spoke across the US as well as Canada, Egypt, India, Philippines and Malaysia across the world.
Next STEM Event
Trumbull’s next STEM event is with Dow at a local school in Houston (November 2022).
Professional Affiliations
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative
Unmanned Systems Canada
Energy Drone Coalition
Women of Commercial Drones
Rice Owls Aerial Robotics (ROAR) Club
National Energy Solutions Institute
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)
American Petroleum Institution (API)
Veterans in Business Association (VIBA)
Along with Lisa Ellman and Gretchen West, Dyan helped cofound Women of Commercial Drones with a formal launch at the White House Drone Workshop and Future of Aviation event in 2016. In short, Women of Commercial Drones aims to increase the number of women in the UAS space through mentorship and scholarship for young women pursuing careers in the UAS industry. This movement has continued to gain momentum.