AMANDA POLEMATIDIS
ENERGY, SUSTAINABILITY & RESILIENCY ENGINEER
STEM Superheroes™ Series
Amanda Polematidis works as an sustainability and resiliency engineer. She helps design and construct buildings that are good for the environment. She wears a hard hat, steel-toed boots, and safety goggles while meeting with construction workers at building sites!
Her superpower of curiosity was sparked with a visit to a sandwich shop in a LEED building. LEED buildings are healthy, efficient, and cost-saving green buildings. Using her superpower of communication, Polematidis helps builders and designers find the best technologies for their green buildings. She uses special computer programs to study data and figure out how much energy a building will use.
When she's not working, Polematidis enjoys playing the piano and playing tennis with her friends. She is part of a tight-knit, first-generation Filipino-American community in Texas. Before this job, Polematidis worked as a middle school science teacher in Jacksonville, Florida. She also worked as a biological engineer.
Amanda Polematidis’ card was developed in collaboration with STEM Superheroes, LLC.
Further Resources
Amanda Polematidis is an Energy Superhero featured in the children’s book Everyday Superheroes: Women in Energy Careers!
Read about Polematidis in “Asian American voices in green building: Amanda Polematidis”
She is the 2023 Jacksonville Business winner of the Journal 40 Under 40 award.
Amanda also won the 2014 Environmental Protection Board-Duval County Public Schools Environmental Champion Award.
Amanda still mentors high school students in the Architecture Construction Engineering (ACE) Mentoring Program of America.