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Shanee Stopnitzky is a complex systems and marine scientist, evangelist of embodying wonder, and mother of two submersibles. She recently founded the Institute for Emergence, an organization that employs the science of emergent phenomena to grow community, generate culture, and optimize conservation, particularly of coral reef ecosystems.

Shanee is the founder and director of the Community Submersibles Project, and is dedicated to bringing submersibles and the importance of awe back into popular imagination. She has spent a year of her life underwater in aggregate, and plans to use what she learns from the subs as a stepping stone to build a diving underwater house in the future.

When not underwater, Shanee makes large experiential art installations using fire, living butterflies, and boats.

Alessandra Nölting is an open-source hardware and mechanics enthusiast with a passion for encouraging others to design, build, tinker, and create. Alessandra previously worked at Hackster.io, an open-source hardware and electronics platform.

Her interest in Ocean exploration and conservation was sparked when she started tinkering with OpenROV's underwater drones. Alessandra is excited to be making submersibles and marine exploration more accessible to the general public!

In her spare time, Alessandra swims in the San Francisco Bay with the South End Rowing Club.

I get ridiculously excited seeing people make things. I just want to revel in the creativity I see in makers. My favorite thing in the world is sharing a maker's story. find me at CalebKraft.com