Michael Street is dedicated to excellence on and off-the-job.
Last year, Street, was the Director of Research at Pattern r+d. The Atlanta firm uses advanced tools and methods to design spaces that provide energy, daylight, and thermal comfort. Street’s portfolio included simulations to aid early design decision-making, and collaboration on projects where architectural design and engineering meet.
Street, who has returned to school to finish a National Science Foundation Fellowship, is also the founder of a tech group assisting Atlanta’s black community: Black Men Code. The Morehouse College graduate, with a BA in Physics degree, is the group’s director.
Black Men Code partners with Morehouse College’s Computer Science Department, to provide free or low-cost computer programming training to black men, whether in high school or as undergraduates, to inspire and motivate them pursue STEM education and perhaps become entrepreneurs.
In 2013, Street received his MS in Building Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
STEMRules History: Robert Robinson Taylor was the first black graduate of MIT in the class of 1892. He spent his career as an architect and educator.
MIT wrote of Taylor that, he “supervised the design and construction of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama — now Tuskegee University — while also overseeing the school’s programs in industrial education and the building trades.”
