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EL PASO, Texas - Middle and high school students from the El Paso area attended the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math exploration event held at the Centennial Banquet and Conference Center at Fort Bliss July 28.
The El Paso STEM Foundation and Fort Bliss hosted the two-day event, which allowed students to explore a variety of STEM career fields through hands-on demonstrations, keynote speakers, workshops and off-site visits.
Wesley Jennings, 12, said he aspires to become an engineer and attended the event to gain more knowledge about the career field.
“There is a woman who came from Irvin High School, and she showed us the website called code.org,” said Jennings. “It helps you learn different coding, so you can make your own website or make a game, so I tried to make games.”
The University of Texas at El Paso College of Engineering brought many robots to the expo for students to touch and maneuver. UTEP sophomores designed Gyro Boy, a popular robot who stands on its own and makes 360-degree turns, and a robotic elephant.
On the second day of the expo several students visited NASA El Paso. Sky Maldonado, 10, said that her sister is a pilot and helicopter mechanic for the Army, and she would like to fly planes like her big sister one day.
“I’m kind of scared of flying, but I hope to one day be just like my big sister,” said Maldonado.
The children were excited about seeing NASA’s cargo aircraft, Super Guppy, with a shape reminiscent of a whale. The cargo area measures 25 feet in diameter and 111 feet long.
Students also had the chance to visit the Surratt Aviation flight school and acted as pilots in one of the aircraft. Alan Surratt, owner and pilot, said he was happy to have the children learn about aviation.
“I think it’s important because they may want to pursue a career in aviation, and they may just want to see what it’s like to be in an airplane,” said Surratt.
No matter what career students choose to pursue in the future, Jennings said it’s important that students are exposed to the opportunities.
“It may not be something you want to explore, but you can take away some knowledge from it in the end,” said Jennings.
| Date Taken: | 07.28.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 07.31.2015 16:41 |
| Story ID: | 171774 |
| Location: | EL PASO, TX, US |
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