To hear some tell it, today’s teenagers do nothing but stare at screens and play video games all day. And while there may be a small kernel of truth in that accusation, it is certainly not the whole story.
While some kids in Manchester were hanging out with friends or playing videos during the February school break, youth at UNH Manchester’s STEM Discovery Lab were busy cutting, sawing, gluing, soldering, designing, testing and building cars and underwater vehicles. Not bad for a week’s vacation, right?
When you are in a room with people all passionate about the same thing, it’s energizing. That’s exactly what happened at the Code.org Regional Partner Summit in San Antonio last week. In our case, what we are passionate about is computer science education.
Can you imagine a Boeing 747 powered completely by solar panels? Manchester West High School sophomore Noah Orr could and wanted to figure out if it’s possible. Orr is participating in the STEM Discovery Lab’s Agnes Lindsay STEM Fellowship Program. As part of the program, Orr is conducting a research project with the support of his mentor, University of New Hampshire Manchester Biotechnology student Tina Minard.