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Bunny Laden
Founder & President

Bunny's interest in science and math started at an early age. She won first place in he 8th grade science fair for her demonstration of Newton's three laws of physics. She studied particle physics in 9th grade and took extra science classes in high school, including physical chemistry. After several interesting detours in life, she ended up with a Special Individual Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Music. Her doctoral work focused on developing computer models of music cognition and neural networks for pitch perception. She was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Washington where she taught Music Cognition and Psychology of Music. After another detour in life, she ended up working at Apple, mostly as a technical writer teaching developers how to use Apple's application programming interfaces. She authored thousands of pages of documentation on a variety of topics including, 2D graphics, QuickTime VR, text processing, web apps, low-level matrix operations, OpenGL, Core Image, and Quartz Composer. She wrote one of the first sample apps for iPhone to show developers how to respond to touch events. Her book Programming With Quartz (authored with David Gelphman) is considered a classic for graphics programmers. She is also an amateur astronomer who obtained a Messier certificate and learned to grind a telescope mirror. 
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Glen Gould
Treasurer

 Glen is a child of the Space Age, growing up watching the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions.  One of the defining moments of his life was watching 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Cinerama Theater in 1968 and calculating how old he would be by then. He thought, “I am going to be an old man, maybe even dead!”  Glen got his first telescope, a Sears 60mm refractor when he was 9 years old and spent many hours out under the stars with it. That led him to Whitman College where he majored in Math and Physics with a minor in Astronomy. He spent many nights of his college years in the wheat fields of Walla Walla gazing at the cosmos through Whitman’s 20-inch telescope. After college he worked in the aerospace industry, first in electrical and lighting systems, and for many years designing and programming automated test systems. He was then able to get his own 12 inch reflector telescope. In 1996 he made a hand cranked star tracker utilizing a barn door hinge to photograph comet Comet Hyakutake that was published in the book Comet of the Century: From Halley to Hale-Bopp by Fred Schaaf. Later he worked on satellite control software for a pioneering satellite phone company. An avid fan of classical music, he spends most of his time restoring crackly old audio recordings of famous performers. He also serves on the board of Opera San Jose. Glen is still waiting for his jet pack and wishes Siri was a little more conversational.
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Koren Spas
Secretary & Social Media Strategist

Koren Spas has 20+ years experience in Project Management and Marketing in the Pacific Northwest Region. She enjoys being part of the exciting developments in technology specifically around Cloud technology and solutions.  In her spare time she is actively involved in the community with focus on Women's issues and civil rights. Her passion is the mountains where she spends a significant amount of time skiing, biking, and hiking the many local hills and peaks as well as traveling the distance to experience new cultures and environments. Koren's most significant accomplishment and ongoing commitment is being a mother to her son, Miles who is currently attending Seattle University majoring in Business and Finance.      
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Amanda Laden
Board Member

 Amanda is both a scientist and a biology teacher.  Her love of biology began when she was given a microscope as a child.  Though she may not pull the legs off grasshoppers to view them up close anymore, she does collect crustaceans, worms, and bryophytes to share her love of biology with her students.  For her Master's research, Amanda perfected a technique for replacing the regulatory light chain of rabbit muscle protein with that of a chicken's gizzard.  In Discovery Bay, Jamaica, she gave an anemone a haircut in order to analyze the zooxanthelae in its tentacles.  And in Costa Rica, she helped to unearth a leaf-cutter ant nest for her students to use as a research project in the lab.  Her greatest joy is arranging for students to engage in real research projects at the University. Some of her research is published in Biophysical Journal: Myosin Crosslinking and EPR Capture the Start of Force Generation in Muscle Fibers.

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