{"id":148133,"date":"2019-04-02T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=148133"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:05:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:05:49","slug":"engineering-their-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/04\/engineering-their-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Their Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 200 8th-grade boys from 15 schools around the state spent the day on campus April 1 at an event titled Engineering Your Future<\/a>. The event, hosted by the School of Engineering, was a day-long conference designed specially for 8th-grade boys from underrepresented backgrounds interested in the STEM fields. The students engaged in hands-on activities that helped them learn key concepts and techniques in science and engineering, in hopes of sparking their interest in pursuing a career in STEM.<\/p>\n

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Keyanno Cohen from Global Communications Academy in Hartford observes the physical changes from cross-linking a polymer to learn more about the chemistry of polymer science. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Keyanno Cohen from Global Communications Academy in Hartford observes the physical changes from cross-linking a polymer to learn more about the chemistry of polymer science. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Jarvis<\/a>
Jarvis Tate, left, and Edwin Maldonado from Pulaski Middle School in New Britain learn about the chemistry of polymer science by cross-linking a polymer and observing the physical changes. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Jarvis Tate, left, and Edwin Maldonado from Pulaski Middle School in New Britain learn about the chemistry of polymer science by cross-linking a polymer and observing the physical changes. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Isai<\/a>
Isai Cevallos from Pulaski Middle School in New Britain learns how to extract DNA from strawberries to learn more about biomedical engineering. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Isai Cevallos from Pulaski Middle School in New Britain learns how to extract DNA from strawberries to learn more about biomedical engineering. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Elijah<\/a>
Elijah Black from West Side Middle School in Groton learns about biomedical engineering by learning the procedures to extract DNA from strawberries. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Elijah Black from West Side Middle School in Groton learns about biomedical engineering by learning the procedures to extract DNA from strawberries. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Mohammad<\/a>
Mohammad Saeed from Two Rivers Magnet Middle School in East Hartford makes his own 'asphalt cookies' with a variety of ingredients. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Mohammad Saeed from Two Rivers Magnet Middle School in East Hartford makes his own 'asphalt cookies' with a variety of ingredients. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"From<\/a>
From left, Joshua Rios and Radamas Quiles of Noah Webster Micro Society School in Hartford and Sheldon Thelwell of Two Rivers Magnet Middle School in East Hartford mimic the process of making asphalt pavement by making their own edible asphalt cookies. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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From left, Joshua Rios and Radamas Quiles of Noah Webster Micro Society School in Hartford and Sheldon Thelwell of Two Rivers Magnet Middle School in East Hartford mimic the process of making asphalt pavement by making their own edible asphalt cookies. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Jerren<\/a>
Jerren Langford from Sage Park Middle School in Windsor uses everyday materials to build a robotic hand to mimic the problem-solving skills that biomedical engineers use to build prosthetics. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Jerren Langford from Sage Park Middle School in Windsor uses everyday materials to build a robotic hand to mimic the problem-solving skills that biomedical engineers use to build prosthetics. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Ezekiel<\/a>
Ezekiel Belen, left, and Cecilio Morales of Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford learn valuable problem-solving skills that biomedical engineers use to build prosthetic devices by building a robotic hand out of everyday materials such as string, straws, and more. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Ezekiel Belen, left, and Cecilio Morales of Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford learn valuable problem-solving skills that biomedical engineers use to build prosthetic devices by building a robotic hand out of everyday materials such as string, straws, and more. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Cooper<\/a>
Cooper Lang from the Academy of Aerospace & Engineering in Rocky Hill learns about environmental engineering by figuring out the best method to clean a sample of polluted water. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Cooper Lang from the Academy of Aerospace & Engineering in Rocky Hill learns about environmental engineering by figuring out the best method to clean a sample of polluted water. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Devonte<\/a>
Devonte Daley, left, and Keenon Christian from Jumoke Academy in Hartford learn about Newton\u2019s Laws of Motion by building and testing a balloon-powered rocket car from simple materials. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Devonte Daley, left, and Keenon Christian from Jumoke Academy in Hartford learn about Newton\u2019s Laws of Motion by building and testing a balloon-powered rocket car from simple materials. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Halimous<\/a>
Halimous Nalergous, left, and Raymond Rodriguez, both from Global Communications Academy in Hartford, use simple materials to build a balloon-powered rocket car to learn the basics of aerodynamics. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Halimous Nalergous, left, and Raymond Rodriguez, both from Global Communications Academy in Hartford, use simple materials to build a balloon-powered rocket car to learn the basics of aerodynamics. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Junior<\/a>
Junior UConn Engineering student Brian Santivanez, foreground, helps Brandon Rutowski (back left) and Joshua Levesque of HALS Academy in New Britain make their own 'windmill,' to learn about the connection between electricity and magnetism. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Junior UConn Engineering student Brian Santivanez, foreground, helps Brandon Rutowski (back left) and Joshua Levesque of HALS Academy in New Britain make their own 'windmill,' to learn about the connection between electricity and magnetism. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Joshua<\/a>
Joshua Grisales from Vernon Center Middle School replicates Hans Oersted\u2019s famous discovery of 1820 on how electricity and magnetism connect. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Joshua Grisales from Vernon Center Middle School replicates Hans Oersted\u2019s famous discovery of 1820 on how electricity and magnetism connect. (Christopher LaRosa\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

“Our ultimate purpose for hosting the conference is to introduce [these 8th-graders] to role models that look like them in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM),” says Stephen Sam ’19 (ENG)<\/a>, a computer science major who is the Region 1 Telecommunication Chair for the National Society of Black Engineers<\/a> and senior adviser of the UConn student organization Brothers Reaching Our Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The schools represented include: Two Rivers Magnet Middle School in East Hartford<\/strong>, West Side STEM Magnet Middle School in Groton<\/strong>, Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford<\/strong>, Environmental Sciences Magnet School at Mary Hooker in Hartford<\/strong>, Global Communications Academy in Hartford<\/strong>, Jumoke Academy in Hartford<\/strong>, Noah Webster Micro Society School in Hartford<\/strong>, Thomas Edison Middle School in Meriden<\/strong>, HALS Academy in New Britain<\/strong>,\u00a0Pulaski Middle School in New Britain<\/strong>, the Academy of Aerospace & Engineering in Rocky Hill<\/strong>, Sage Park Middle School in Windsor<\/strong>, and Vernon Center Middle School in Vernon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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