Students Take on Aeronautical Design Challenge, Get Job Offers From Industry
Orville and Wilbur Wright first became interested in flight as boys when their father gave them a rubber-band-powered helicopter toy. And on a brisk winter’s day in 1903 the brothers became the first...
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At the Real World Design Challenge in Washington DC last month high-school teams from around the United States presented their eco-friendly aircraft and land transport designs to an impressive lineup...
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Eighty percent of American high school kids are not interested in engineering, and 40 percent don’t even know what engineering is. Yet STEM-related jobs are growing three times faster than non-STEM...
View ArticleHigh Schoolers Design Better Way to Feed the World
This week, teams of high school students from around the United States gathered in Washington DC for the final leg of the Real World Design Challenge, a state-level and national competition focused on...
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