Abby Longcor M.A. ’12 was named to the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 40 under 40 list for 2016.

Longcor is the senior director of The Tech Museum of Innovation’s signature program, The Tech Challenge, which introduces and reinforces the engineering design process with a hands-on project geared toward solving a real-world problem. Along with her duties as director, she assisted in developing The Tech Academies program, which provides professional development to educators. Her focus on education is further demonstrated through her volunteer work with the League of Women Voters, helping the league develop an advocacy position to work more actively on higher education in California. As the director of The Tech Challenge, she leads recruiting to reach low-income students and girls. Currently, about 40 percent of registered teams come from socioeconomically disadvantaged schools, and about 45 percent of participants are girls.