Engineering Students Design Toys
Posted on December 30th, 2013 by Mary Lord
Can toys inspire more kids – especially girls – to become engineers? Purdue University mechanical engineering students think so, and they are designing and building high-tech educational toys that make science and engineering fun.
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America’s stars of science and engineering will descend on Washington, D.C., this month for the 2nd annual USA Science & Engineering Festival, April 28-29. This year’s festival features more than 3,000 hands-on activities along with TV celebrities like Bill Nye, PBS’s “science guy.” New this year: a science and engineering book fair and career pavilion for high school students.
For years, politicians, business leaders, and educators have made graduating more engineers and teachers with science and math degrees a national priority. Now, the number of college freshmen interested in majoring in a STEM field is on the rise. However, roughly 40 percent of students planning to major in engineering and science end up switching to other subjects or failing to get any degree.
