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The Battalion flMPtiS Engineering 101 Program offers high-school students chance to explore field By Patrick Peabody StaffWriter The College of Engineering is holding a program next week for high-school students interested in engineering. The Summer Enrichment Ex perience is a series of workshops and seminars that allows juniors and seniors to explore all areas of engineering. Sheila Bonilla, coordinator of the program, said this is a good opportunity for students. “They leave with a good im pression of A&M,” she said, “and it helps introduce them to engi neering.” The high-school students par ticipate in activities dealing with both application and theory. The focus of the week is an en gineering project. The students are assigned to groups and given a project to design and finish by the end of the week. This year’s project is the con struction of a bridge using only pasta noodles. The participants must make the bridge strong enough to hold a one kilogram weight for 10 minutes. The lightest project that fulfills these require ments wins. “The students really enjoy the opportunity,” Bonilla said, “but find it is a lot of work to get their projects done between going to the seminars.” Engineering graduate students help the participants by advising them and evaluating their designs. At the end of the week, judges are brought in to evaluate the pro jects. This year two representa tives from International Paper, along with four graduate students, make up the judging panel. Applicants to the program must show excellence in math and science, along with high PSAT scores. They must also attach an essay explaining why they want to at tend the program and letters of recommendation. This year the program received approximately 160 applications. Fifty participants were ac cepted for each session of the program, one of which was held last week. Applicants who were not ac cepted to the program had their applications forwarded to other camps and programs. Bonilla said the program looks for people who would be the first in their family to attend college. While diversity is a goal of the program, Bonilla said, minorities comprise a small percentage of the group. However, approximate ly half of this year’s participants are female. Bonilla said she believes the program can help guide students into a major that is right for them. “It lets them know if engineer ing is for them,” she said, “and if so, what field of engineering, and if not, what other majors they could consider.” Skottdi YOU HAVE GOT TO PE KIDPING ME... Thursday • June 18 By Qual ') The Greys By Gabl ^ . <jE£> X\ • . m, Ruling prevents au pair from profits Andij in Aggieland Bu St BOSTON (AP) — As British au pair Louise Woodward got ready to head for home, a federal judge tem porarily barred her from spending any money earned from selling her story about the death of a baby in her care. Saying there was a reasonable likelihood Matthew Eappen’s par ents would win a wrongful death lawsuit, U.S. District Judge William Young ordered Woodward to noti fy the court and the Eappen family of any contract she signs for book or movie deals. Woodward, who was to board a flight yesterday afternoon, was not in court at the hearing. Police said she would be es corted on a late afternoon flight to London. Although the court order would not affect any deals in England, it would bar Woodward from taking advantage of any profits earned here. The order is good for 10 days and could be extended. Young sched uled a trial for Oct. 5. The suit was filed Tuesday, short ly after Massachusetts’ highest court upheld the trial judge’s re duction of Woodward’s conviction and sentence for the death of 8- month-old Matthew last year. “It is wrong for her to profit in any way from what she did to Mat ty,” the baby’s mother, Deborah Eappen, told The Boston Globe. “What she did was so wrong, for her to benefit financially would be so wrong.” The civil lawsuit also seeks $75,000 in actual damages and un specified punitive damages. The ruling also prevents Wood ward’s parents and anyone working on her behalf from profiting from the crime. 0 i i j Just /ooX At this rtfriaerpXor.' Mts/oihinj / WHTWX r "A k pshil ’hey \| jver. rain ( I loctol 'eteril jrepnl nontlj nc Dr. teed iol ithe eai i ie Of iclc ir Xtejtth red ev John Collins '97 invites you to... 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