Media Mentorship Night

in Partnership with the UW Center For An Informed Public

At Media Mentorship Night teens will teach information literacy skills to their parents, families, and community members.

Information literacy is the ability to think critically and curiously about the messages we consume, create, and engage with. Hoboken students from across the city have researched their own topics in relation to information literacy and are ready to share with their community.

Join us for a night of informative interactions where teens become the teachers!

Come enjoy snacks and the students research displayed science fair style.

At 6:30 our teens will take a quick break and we will hear from Sandeep Mertia, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Stevens! He will be presenting  "A Quick History of Algorithms".

Sandeep Mertia is an Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD with Distinction at the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania (2024-25). He is an ICT engineer by training and a former Research Associate at Sarai-CSDS, New Delhi (2014-17). His publications include Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India (2020).

Read Sandeep Mertia's full bio here.

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