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MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. - Second and third grade students from John H. Russell Elementary School celebrated National Engineering Week and Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day with visits from two engineers on Feb. 21 and 22.
Students were visited the first day by Dr. Buford Shipley, a rocket scientist, Boeing. Shipley shared with the students not only what his job was but also what all engineers do.
“What do you think an engineer does?” Shipley asked the class of second graders.
“Fix things, solve problems, invent things,” the children shouted in reply.
“You know what I think engineers do,” said Shipley. “I think they make dreams into reality.”
Shipley explained to the students how there are a number of different engineers who solve a number of problems or think of new ways to think.
To show the scientific process at work, Shipley had five different paper airplane designs he had the children construct and guess which would go the furthest.
The students were also shown how engineering works in the cafeteria.
The females in the second-grade class did some experimenting of their own in the school lunchroom by measuring out ingredients used to produce a nutritious meal with Patty Grogg, lunchroom manager, Russell Elementary School.
Megan McCollough, civil engineer, Williamsburg Environmental Group, visited the students on Feb. 22. McCollough taught the children the importance of fresh water and how to keep it clean. A landform was used in the experiment and the students poured clean and polluted water over the land form model to see how pollution affects the ground water, streams and eventually the ocean.
“How do you keep the water clean?” asked one student.
“One person at a time,” answered McCollough.
The students’ teacher, Patricia Boswell, said silence fell over the students as they realized how important their individual efforts are.
| Date Taken: | 02.21.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 03.11.2013 10:30 |
| Story ID: | 103253 |
| Location: | QUANTICO, VIRGINIA, US |
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