Thanks for stopping by, Berkeley High School! It was a pleasure hosting the students for a tour of our engineering facility in Berkeley. If the visit was any indication, the future of energy is in very capable hands!💡
“You should ask yourself, ‘Do I want to do hard things and grow?’ Once you make that decision and are intentional, it’s easier.” —Sage words from Nicholas Perkins, a technical leader at Form Energy at yesterday’s STEM CareerX tour of the iron-air battery company. With nearly 1000 employees at locations across the US, including an engineering team in Berkeley, they are producing batteries for the electric grid that last 100 hours and can support electrification at scale. And the reason they chose #Berkeley for this important work? Marketing lead Olivia Evans says, “there’s great talent here.” The “weather” was also mentioned as a reason the team loves Berkeley. 😊 Thanks to the Bruce Simon at the Institute for STEM Education at CSU East Bay and Sagit Betser and Form Energy’s Dan Sobel, Crystal Jain, Hailey Smith-Mims, and Brian Sigmund for organizing the visit for Berkeley High School National Society of Black Engineers Jr students to see how their STEM skills could apply to a real world career in a local climate-tech startup. Kudos also to Olivia Goss, Cedric Williams, PhD, Elijah Kashi, Shradhdha Sarvaiya and David Sisak for sharing their career journeys and how they landed themselves a fulfilling job at Form Energy.