Engineering Camp Set For Women High School Students

February 22,2001

University Park, Pa. --- High school junior and senior women students are invited to apply to "Vec-Tour" or Venture in Engineering, at Penn State's University Park campus this summer. The new program is aimed at providing hands-on engineering experience to high school women students.

The theme will focus on materials and environment engineering with sessions planned in material science (making an LED flashlight); acoustic engineering, environmental systems, and bioengineering. The residential camp will begin on Sunday, July 21 and conclude on Saturday, July 28. The students will be housed in Penn State residence halls on the University Park campus.

For more information, please contact the Women in Engineering Program at 863-1080 or on the Internet, http://www.engr.psu.edu/wep/vectour/vectourgirlscamp.htm

Students also can contact Cyndi Freeman Fail, director of diversity enhancement, Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, 25 Deike Building, University Park PA 16802; phone-814-863-2751 or Barbara Bogue, Director, Women in Engineering Program, 241 Hammond Building, University Park, PA 16802; phone: 814-863-1080.

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