High School Students Design Eco-Friendly Plane for Real World Design Challenge
For one group of students from Marlborough High School in Massachusetts it’s not been an average spring term. They’ve been given a challenge: to design a low-carbon-emission and environmentally...
View ArticleStudents Take on Aeronautical Design Challenge, Get Job Offers From Industry
Orville and Wilbur Wright first became interested in flight as boys when their father gave them a rubber-band-powered helicopter toy. And on a brisk winter’s day in 1903 the brothers became the first...
View ArticleBridging the Gap: Making Education Work for Industry
At the Real World Design Challenge in Washington DC last month high-school teams from around the United States presented their eco-friendly aircraft and land transport designs to an impressive lineup...
View ArticleHigh School Kids Designing Aircraft to Locate Lost Children
Eighty percent of American high school kids are not interested in engineering, and 40 percent don’t even know what engineering is. Yet STEM-related jobs are growing three times faster than non-STEM...
View ArticleManufacturers Face Bigger Challenges as Airplane Orders Grow
Airplane manufacturers may be looking forward to continued growth, but they’re also facing unprecedented challenges within the industry today, and pressure to meet new demands, rapid delivery times,...
View ArticleHigh on Style: NASA, Victoria’s Secret, and a Next-Generation Spacesuit
What do you get when you cross a Victoria’s Secret designer, a Russian engineer, and some NASA funding? Punch lines abound, but in this case the answer is edgy (yet practical) spacewear. Meet Nik...
View ArticleRebuilding the Mona Lisa of the Skies
Shrouded in scaffolding and stripped to her rivets, the “Super Star” is barely recognizable as an airplane, let alone one of the last most glamorous ever built. Yet here, away from public view in a...
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