MIT PIFA Fireside Chat is a series of peer-sharing events that promotes female leadership and gender equality. Each time, a speaker will host the event and set the topic for her session. Allies of all genders are welcome to join.
MIT PIFA炉边谈是旨在推广女性领导力和性别平等的一系列同伴分享活动。每次活动由一位主讲人设立主题进行分享和交流，并欢迎所有性别的盟友参与活动。
PIFA stands for “Principled and Intelligent Female and Allies”. It is an open platform for events and activities aimed at strengthening female representation and leadership, and highlighting the contributions of female leaders, scientists, entrepreneurs and their allies, within the MIT community and the beyond.
PIFA代表“有原则、有智慧的女性及盟友”，作为一个开放平台，旨在加强女性及其他少数群体的领导力及影响力，展示和突出来自MIT及更大范围的女性领导者、科学家、企业家及其盟友的贡献。
The MIT Alumni Club of Shanghai is pleased
to announce an upcoming PIFA event to celebrate the 150th year of MIT's first
female graduate ceremony.
More information about the first woman, Ellen
Henrietta Swallow Richards, to graduate from MIT, please check: https://libraries.mit.edu/news/celebrating-womens/34055/
The event, titled "Think Big, Do
Small", will take place on April 8th and feature Tengfei Zheng, PhD ’14 in
Biochemistry and a pioneer in promoting innovative education in China. During
the event, Tengfei will share her story of switching her career path from
academia to education, and explore the relationship between study, growth, and
value.
麻省理工学院上海校友会很高兴地宣布即将举办一场PIFA活动，以庆祝MIT首位女性校友毕业150周年。更多关于这位女性校友Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards的纪念活动（ESR
150），可查看: https://libraries.mit.edu/news/celebrating-womens/34055/
此次活动名为“Think Big, Do Small”，将于4月8日举行，特邀生物化学系 ‘14 郑腾飞博士发表演讲。郑腾飞校友是在中国推广创新教育的先驱。在此次活动中，郑腾飞博士将分享她的故事，介绍她是如何从学术界转向教育界的，并探讨学习、成长和自我价值之间的关系。Tengfei got her Bachelor’s degree in Science
from Peking University in 2007 and a PhD degree in Biochemistry from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014.After graduation from MIT, Tengfei chose to
leave academia and went back to China. She worked in Henan Provincial
Department of Environment Protection for a year, focusing on air pollution
management. Then she switched her career path to education. In the first few years,
she designed curriculum for afterschool science education institute, and
coached high school and undergraduate students for upper level degree
application. In August 2016, Tengfei joined Shanghai Pinghe School, a private
school with grade 1-12 students. She worked on reconstructing a 12-year
continuous science curriculum, aiming to offer good science literacy training to
all students. At the same time, she was in charge of the opening and operation
of a new primary school of the Pinghe Education Group, Shanghai Little Bridge
School. She is now the principal of this school, which has became one of the
most popular primary schools for middle class families in Shanghai, and was
elected as the 100 most innovative schools in China.Aside from her endeavors in school
education, Tengfei is also active in public science dissemination by giving
public lectures, publishing articles and leading workshops. As a ‘used to be’
scientific researcher, she loves to share her research work and scientific
training to children and adults who are interested in science. She was also
elected as the sixth Sino-French Youth Leader of the Franco-China Foundation in
2018, interviewed by Wang Qishan, the Vice President of the State, and spoke on
behalf of the Chinese educational community at the 2019 Aixen-Provence Economic
Conference on "Youth Development in the Context of Globalization".腾飞于2007年获得北京大学理学学士学位，2014年获得麻省理工学院生物化学博士学位。毕业于麻省理工学院后，她选择离开学术界回到中国。她在河南省环境保护厅工作了一年，专注于空气污染管理。然后她转变了职业道路，最初几年为课外素质教育机构设计课程，并指导高中和本科学生申请更高级别的学位。2016年8月，腾飞加入了上海平和学校，这是一所拥有1-12年级学生的私立学校。她致力于重构12年连续的科学课程，旨在为所有学生提供良好的科学素养培训。同时，她还负责开办和运营平和教育集团旗下的新小学——上海筑桥实验小学。她现在是该校的校长，该校已成为上海中产家庭中最受欢迎的小学之一，并被评选为中国最具创新力的100所学校之一。除了在学校教育方面的努力外，腾飞还积极参与公共科学传播，通过公开演讲、发表文章和主持研讨会等方式。作为一名“曾经”的科学研究员，她喜欢向对科学感兴趣的儿童和成人分享她的研究工作和科学培训。她还于2018年当选为法中基金会第六届中法青年领袖，并接受了国家副主席王岐山的座谈，代表中国教育界在2019年艾克斯普罗旺斯经济会议上发言，就“全球化背景下的青年发展”发表了演讲。Apr 8, 2023, Saturday, 2:00 - 4:00pm2023年4月8日, 周六, 2:00 - 4:00pm
Way Foong House, 220 Middle Sichuan Rd., Huangpu District, Shanghai. 上海市黄浦区四川中路220号新汇丰大楼二楼，留学人员之家- Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://mit.zoom.us/j/95980956927- Webinar ID: 959 8095 6927- International numbers available: https://mit.zoom.us/u/ac0p0mn3D12:00 ~ 2:05 pm Opening 开场2:05 ~ 2:15 pm Attendee Introduction - All 自我介绍环节3:00 ~ 3:45 pm Q&A 提问交流（主持人提问+现场/线上观众提问）3:45 ~ 4:00 pm Networking - All 自由交流
The MIT PIFA Events are supported by passionate volunteers such as Yangyue, Sophie, Meng, Jie, and other actively contributed MIT female leaders.Contributor: Yangyue Zhang
