Married couple selected as Bettendorf Going to Science Scholars

Stephanie and Joshua Hemberger had been named as this year’s Bettendorf Neighborhood Schools Foundation Going to Science Scholars.

The annual Going to Science Scholar program aims to highlight and connect sector specialists with Bettendorf Greater College students interested in pursuing science, technologies, engineering and/or math (STEM) fields.

The duo — every single Class of 2002 graduates — will give a presentation to larger college STEM students on Friday, March 24, focusing on the horizontal and vertical infrastructure that builds our communities. They will also attend the annual Bett STEM Expo on Saturday, March 25, to speak with guests.

Stephanie Hemberger (formerly Brodersen) is a transportation engineer and project manager. She leads the transportation style and style practice for national firm HNTB out of Des Moines, Iowa.

Hemberger attended Paul Norton Elementary College prior to progressing by suggests of the district. She earned her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Iowa State University in 2006, also minoring in French.

Upon graduating from ISU, Hemberger began her profession as a roadway style and style engineer at HNTB’s headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, precisely exactly where she’d later get her master’s in enterprise administration from Rockhurst University in 2009. She is also a licensed Skilled Engineer in every single Iowa and Missouri.

All by way of her profession, Hemberger has had varied encounter designing or important projects for state Departments of Transportation and neighborhood municipalities. She moved back to Iowa in 2020 to be element of opening HNTB’s Des Moines workplace.

Outdoors of the engineering planet, Hemberger is passionate about neighborhood involvement. She is a 2014 graduate of the Greater Kansas City Chamber Centurions Leadership Program, in addition to graduating the Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute in 2022.

Hemberger is also active in the Women’s Transportation Seminar, an organization focused on attracting, sustaining, connecting and advancing women’s careers in the transportation sector — she at present serves as secretary on the Iowa Chapter Executive Board of Directors.

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Her husband, Joshua Hemberger, attended Grant Wood Elementary College and also attended ISU, precisely exactly where he graduated with his Bachelor’s of Architecture in 2008 with a digital media minor.

His profession began at the Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity — dwelling to the Kansas City Ballet — precisely exactly where he was involved in a wide choice of operate, from housing to campus master plans. Offered that moving to Des Moines, Hemberger now performs for Substance Architecture, precisely exactly where he leads the firm’s operate on several projects with Indigenous nonprofits and tribes of South Dakota.

He strives to make architecture that inspires and improves every single the human and environmental wellness of a neighborhood, building larger-efficiency choices when employing various tools to enhance daylighting, thermal efficiency and other constructing traits.