Movers & Shakers
LATITUDE
ROBERT GOMES, P.ENG. . . . . . one of Edmonton’s Power 30
If that weren’t exciting enough, Ms. L’Orsa spends her summers leaping from airplanes into forest fires, as a volunteer smokejumper with the BC Forest Service. She is one of only three female smokejumpers in Canada. The third APEGA Member to make one of the Avenue under-40 lists began his career as a summer student with an Encana predecessor. He is now responsible for a restructuring
Ms. L’Orsa also shares her passion for robotics through the Schulich Community Robotics Program, which she founded and directs. The program offers school-aged children in Calgary hands-on activities involving robotics. She also mentors high school students through Cybermentor and is one of two lead mentors for an all-girl robotics team called the Intimitrons of Area 51 (the only all-girl FIRST Robotics team in Western Canada).
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