Attention Education Reporter
For Immediate Release
Contacts:
| Neil Dabb, Program Director |
Principal _____________ |
| Junior Engineering |
School ________________ |
| (435)797.8000 |
Telephone _____________ |
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Program Brings Science To The Classroom
Bubbles, Rockets, Robots, Mars Rovers, Hurricanes, and Electricity; all these plus many more projects
will be arriving at ___________________________ school on ____________.
Junior Engineering, through the Extension Service of Utah State University,
is bringing a hands-on, minds-on program that transports engineering, science
and technology to our school.
The program brings unique equipment that individual schools could never afford to demonstrate
scientific concepts. This opportunity helps students learn how scientific principles
apply in daily life and explains careers available to them in technical
fields. Since the program began in February 1997, more than 500 schools
have been visited, impacting over 255,000 elementary students.
Junior Engineering is about changing attitudes towards science and technology.
With the rapid expansion of new technology, it is imperative that our community
continues to be exposed to the sciences of tomorrow.
A day of more than 30 possible activities as well as an evening family fair is funded through local
school participation. Materials used in these activities may be as simple as conjoined
two-liter bottles filled with water to demonstrate hurricanes or as complicated
as a computer simulation of the Mars Pathfinder mission.
In addition to coming to the school for one day of instruction, Junior Engineering offers continued
resources through its web page at http://www.engineering.usu.edu/jrestate/.
The program also offers college credit to teachers who complete a graduate
level workshop.
For additional information please contact the local school principal or Neil Dabb, Director of
Junior Engineering.
