Philadelphia Middle School Students to Launch Power Boats and Rocket Cars at Penn’s Innoworks
WHO:
Penn student volunteers and their middle-school partners will launch rockets and power boats as part of a week-long summer course designed to get young people excited about science and technology.
WHAT:
InnoWorks is an innovative science and engineering initiative, “By Students, For Students,” designed and implemented by college volunteers for middle-school students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Forty middle-school students spend the week on science projects not typically available in their schools. Penn student volunteers assist with experiments incorporating the five senses.
WHEN:
Tuesday, Aug. 31, at 3 p.m.: Boat Building and Racing, The Bio-Pond, Hamilton Walk near 38th Street, behind Richards Medical Research Building
Friday, Sept. 3, at 11:30 a.m.: Racing Balloon Rocket Cars, Skirkanich Hall, 210 S. 33rd St.
Friday, Sept. 3, at 2 p.m.: Flying Homemade Kites, Hill Field, 34th and Chestnut streets
Friday, Sept. 3, at 5 p.m.: Awards Ceremony, Berger Auditorium, Skirkanich Hall, 210 S. 33rd St.
Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.
Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.
Rashi Sabherwal, a doctoral student in political science, explores how women engage politically in society in informal roles through her research in India.
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Penn Engineers, NASA, and five other universities tested robotic systems designed to help unmanned explorers cooperate in the dunes of White Sands, New Mexico, paving the way for Moon and Mars exploration.
