Engineer's Week

The St. Louis Science Center's School and Community Partnership Department is hosting an Engineer's Week experience for St. Louis 5th to 9th graders during February 19-22, 2008, from 9 am til 11:30 am. We would like to invite you and your schools to participate with us during this national event. The timing will be appropriate as we celebrate National Engineers Week in general during this period. Furthermore, the weekend of February 23-24 will be highlighted by the annual Missouri Society of Professional Engineers (MSPE) sponsored exhibition at the Science Center.The event will be held at the Science Center's Taylor Community Science Resource Center, 4900 Manchester (SW corner of Manchester and Kingshighway). Below are the main goals of the event, and things we would love to have your students experience while joining us for the week.

The overall objectives are to help students better understand and recognize the academic and career opportunities available within the various disciplines. The Engineer's Week program's goals are to:

1. Provide students with concrete experiences related specifically to engineering careers that might otherwise seem unrelated to their current academic studies and everyday experiences.

2. Provide students with opportunities to find out more about careers in engineering, and the educational and training requirements for such careers,

3. Promote enthusiasm for careers in engineering, science, and technology, by introducing students to working engineers in professional and academic roles, who are passionate about their chosen fields, and

4. Reach students at critical points in their school progression when they are laying the math and science foundation for their futures, and before they have self-selected out of the wide range of opportunities available in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers.