Jen Baumgartner

Corporate communications manager at Broadcom with 12 years of technology public relations experience. She earned her PR stripes promoting companies such as DivX, Microsoft and Websense.

Experiment with After School Program Creates Budding Scientists

By: Jen Baumgartner Posted: Apr. 12, 2012

Middle school children from two Southern California school districts were able to unleash their inner Einsteins and participate in a regional science fair thanks to a new pilot program funded by Broadcom Foundation.

Broadcom Foundation contributed more than $80,000 in grants to provide project-based science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning for underprivileged middle school students in the after-school space. The foundation led a coordinated initiative with THINK Together, one of California’s largest providers of extended day learning programs, …

Digital TV Goes Global

By: Jen Baumgartner Posted: Mar. 19, 2012

Broadcom is enhancing the global home entertainment experience with another industry first: making next-generation HDTV services available on existing standard networks.

Today, at IPTV World Forum in London, Broadcom announced the BCM3461- the industry’s first fully integrated 40nm DVB-T2 receiver. DVB-T is the most widely deployed DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television) system worldwide, adopted in more than 60 countries and found on more than 200 million receivers. The DVB-T2 is a unique receiver because it enables consumers to enjoy …

Broadcom MASTERS® Runner-Up Meets Obama at White House Science Fair

By: Jen Baumgartner Posted: Feb. 07, 2012

Benjamin Hylak of West Grove, Pa., and finalist in the inaugural Broadcom MASTERS competition, met President Obama as a participant in the White House Science Fair in Washington, D.C. on February 7.

He joined other winners from national science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions nationwide including Broadcom MASTERS finalist Coleman Kendrick, 14, of Los Alamos, NM.

Hylak, 14, was recognized for his work as a Broadcom MASTER (Math, Applied Science, Technology, and Engineering for Rising Stars), a national STEM …

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