You are invited to attend the public finalist viewing event for the 2021 ORISE / DOE Ignite Off! competition. This exciting competition showcases the talents of select DOE interns as they share their research in a fast and fun style. The event will start with a welcome and brief introduction to the Ignite talk format. The 8 finalist Ignite presentations will then be shown. Ignite talks are 5 minute presentations, designed to engage with the audience.

Topic Areas:
• Sina Sontowski – Anomaly Detection in Time Series, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Anna Zeleny– Enhancing Perfluroinated Polymer Membrane Stability Through Radical Scavengers, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Genevieve Brooks – Baking Some Cookies Using Quantitative Mineral Analysis, National Energy Technology Laboratory
• Clare Martin – Methane: Man’s Trash is a Methanotroph’s Treasure, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Rishab Jain– Performance of a Phase-Changing Thermal Energy Storage System, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Keenan Ganz – The Future of Boreal Peatlands in a Warming World, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Ikumi Ellis – Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) for Direct Air Capture (DAC) of CO2, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Janet Teng – Understanding Corrosion One Atom at a Time, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• With guest speaker DOE Site Office Deputy Manager Michele Branton