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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.”
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