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Everyone’s path is different 👩‍🎓 Sandia mentors and speakers shared their career journeys with high school junior honorees and their teachers at the 35th annual Sandia Women’s Connection Math & Science Awards in Livermore, CA. Nominated by teachers and school administrators, 45 students from 28 schools throughout the greater Bay Area earned recognition for this year’s event. “The underpinnings of what we do at the national laboratories is based in math and science,” said Toby Townsend, associate Labs director for the Deterrence, Science & Energy Division. “If you pursue your curiosity in math and science, you’re going to find your way into professions and adventures you never would have imagined. I encourage you to enjoy that journey, have fun doing it, get lost and don’t worry about it when you get off track — you’ll find your way back.”