Media Relations
Press Release:
MEDIA CONTACT : Cheryl Halle
561-297-1399, challe@fau.edu
FAU Hosts ‘Engineering Olympics,’ a High
School Engineering Competition
BOCA RATON, FL
(October 7, 2009) – Florida Atlantic
University’s American Society of Mechanical Engineers club is
hosting a high school “Engineering Olympics”
competition. The competition will be held on Friday, October
9 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Live Oak Pavilion of the Student
Union, 777 Glades Road, FAU’s Boca Raton campus.
This annual event exposes high school students to the field of engineering and encourages them to start thinking about engineering as a career choice. Eighteen teams from six local high schools -- Jupiter High School, Boca Raton High School, FAU High School, South Broward High School, Stranahan High School and Plantation High School -- will be competing in the Engineering Olympics.
The teams will compete in a series of five to eight engineering challenges or events. Each team will receive a brown bag of supplies that they will use to complete each challenge. There will be a gold, silver and bronze medal awarded to each winning team in each event and a plaque to the top three schools overall.
For more information about the competition, contact KC Coyle at 561-297-3580.
-FAU-
Florida
Atlantic University opened its
doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today,
the University serves more than 28,000 undergraduate and graduate
students on seven campuses. Building on its rich tradition as a
teaching university, with a world-class faculty, FAU hosts ten
colleges: College of Architecture, Urban & Public
Affairs, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters, the
Charles E. Schmidt College of Biomedical Science, the College of
Business, the College of Education, the College of
Engineering & Computer Science, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors
College, the Graduate College, the Christine E. Lynn
College of Nursing and the
Charles E. Schmidt College of
Science.
