Eight members of Youngstown State University’s Data Science Club recently embarked on a trip to Austin, Texas, to attend the Data Science Salon conference as a recent professional development initiative. The trip, funded by the J. Douglas Faires Memorial Endowment, formally supported and signed off by Tom Wakefield, chair professor, was organized by Jeffrey Coldren, chair and professor of Psychological Sciences & Counseling with instrumental support by Jay Kerns, professor of Mathematics & statistics.