Winter Sports

With the 2006 Winter Olympics only 15 days away, your students might be gearing up to cheer their favorite Olympians to the medal stand by learning everything there is to know about winter sports. But will they know that virtually every one of the Olympic winter sports depends on engineering? From a ski jump’s slope [...]

National Engineers Week Launches New Program For 2006

National Engineers Week 2006 will launch an extensive outreach to middle school teachers this year, entitled “Connecting Educators to Engineering.” The new program will target up to 10,000 middle school teachers with a coordinated push to train engineers to directly interact with educators, provide needed learning materials, and create an online forum for educator and [...]