The 2007 Fall Design/Science Extravaganza brought more than 900 students from Albuquerque, Los Lunas, Belen and Santa Fe to the UNM campus for competitions and presentations in the Student Union Building and Johnson Center. The students worked as teams on a variety of academic challenges provided by MESA including robotics, engineering, electrical circuitry, math and science.
When not competing, the students attended a variety of presentations by the Hispanic Engineering Student Organization (HESO). The presentations included information about the UNM FSAE Race Car team, robotics laboratories, and chemical engineering. There was also engineering and science information available from Sandia National Laboratories, Lockheed Martin and others.
Near the end of the day all students participated in two engineering competitions developed by HESO, an egg drop and bridge construction.
MESA provided transportation, a mid-morning snack and lunch for the students, along with ribbons and trophies for the event winners. HESO provided commemorative tee shirts and student packets as well as prices for the winners of the engineering competitions.
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at October 24, 2007 02:19 PM