At Solid Edge University, Mike Evans from the Huntsville Center of Technology<\/A> presented several commercial projects that high school students in Huntsville, Alabama, are involved with.
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<\/A>The projects are so cool that even college engineers are returning to be mentors so they can get more hands-on experience.
So take a listen to my interview with Mike and learn more about the programs he mentions below.
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ii5WBLeaZic
Rocket City Space Pioneers<\/A> are out to prove commercial space exploration can be affordable and sustainable. The pioneers are a team of Alabama businesses and organizations. They are one of 26 teams attempting to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE<\/A>. The competition awards $30 million in prizes to the first privately funded teams who safely land a robot on the moon that then travels 500 meters and send images back to Earth. Here is a video of team leader Tim Pickens explaining more:
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ys5e5-KIcMk
HUNCH<\/A> stands for high school students united with NASA to create hardware. NASA works with the next generation of engineers on cost-effective hardware and soft goods. Students apply their science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills to develop real-world products for NASA.
Greenpower<\/A> is a design-make-race challenge to promote sustainable engineering to young people. Hopefully you already saw the Inspiring Future Engineers with Greenpower<\/A> blog post. Be sure to check out TeamUSA\u2019s Facebook page<\/A>.
Mike emphasizes the importance of these programs at the high school level:
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\u201cIf we want to guide students into engineering, we have to start at an earlier age.\u201d<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
If you\u2019re interested in Mike\u2019s full presentation, here are his slides<\/A>.
You can go back to high school. Be an science, technology, engineering or math mentor at your local high school.
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