Sheyene GerardiFoundationSheyene Gerardi Foundation
The Sheyene Gerardi Foundation transforms scientific knowledge, education, technology, and lived experience into enduring public-interest institutions.
The Foundation
The Sheyene Gerardi Foundation carries forward a legacy of exploration, education, scientific inquiry, and public service. It develops institutions that preserve knowledge while turning it into practical capability for new generations.
From community education and food security to robotics, independent scholarship, emergency readiness, and the preservation of five decades of expeditionary science, its work connects human potential with systems designed to endure.
Current institutions
Independent platforms for scholarship, public preparedness, and the preservation and activation of scientific knowledge.
Independent research institution and scholarly publishing program advancing interdisciplinary inquiry in science, security, systems, governance, and society.
Open Synergy Hall↗A research museum preserving the expeditionary legacy of Marina Gerardi and Edgar García, including the private Legacy Collection and the developing Universal Bio-Motion Library.
Explore GEMS Museum↗A public-interest emergency initiative designed to help ordinary people act during critical moments before professional assistance arrives.
Visit CdxGEMS.doctor↗Earlier programs
Before today’s institutions, the Foundation built practical programs around education, technological learning, and community resilience.
Inaugurated in Venezuela in 2007, this educational initiative expanded access to learning, strengthened confidence, and opened new pathways for children and communities.
Watch the inauguration ↗Facebook ↗Student robotics activities connected young people with the challenge of designing, building, and competing through educational programs at NASA.
Watch the announcement ↗A behind-the-scenes record of the students, teamwork, and practical learning that brought the robotics program to life at NASA.
Watch behind the scenes ↗Community-centered work supporting food access, local resilience, and the practical capacity of families to respond to periods of vulnerability.
Request program information ↗Related research
In 2018, Sheyene Gerardi was appointed Robotics Outreach Lead through NASA CLASS and founded the NASA Planetary Landing Laboratory. This historic milestone connected technological literacy and public engagement with research in robotics, autonomous systems, and operations in complex planetary environments.
Read the 2018 announcement →Independent scholarship
Synergy Hall provides open scholarly publications, an institutional catalog, researcher profiles, and pathways for qualified researchers to request access to protected materials.
Public record
Contact
For institutional collaboration, research inquiries, program information, and qualified access requests.
contact@sheyene.org↗