Very
recently, Wilkes University held their annual Engineering Olympics. This is
very intriguing to me in a multitude of ways. In the competitive competition, “the student participants heralded from seven area
schools, building and testing catapults, solving problems using electrical
circuits, and other engineering related tasks” that paved a medium for these
students to gain an insight of what the future of engineering is like
(WNEP.com).
Every student that participated was in pursuit of the gold: $10,000
in scholarship money. The prize alone gives the students an incentive to
compete and become the best engineers they can be. The students will want to
succeed and prosper within the engineering community, while allowing the
competition to further recruit students into these STEM careers.
Although the
different tasks within this competition seem simplistic, is forces the students
to think outside the box, like most engineers are required to do to succeed.
My
final thoughts are that more organizations should do this more often, reaching
out to young students, giving them an opportunity that many engineers today
never got.
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