Engineering Ambassadors visit Peters Township High School

What better day to visit a chemistry classroom than Mole Day? Well lucky for our Engineering Ambassadors thats exactly what day it was! One of the teachers even made MOLasses cookies for the class in celebration! Now this wasn't the only perk the students were in for, they also had the opportunity to learn about engineering and participate in hands-on activities with the EAs!

Some of the chemistry classes received presentations from Kathleen Prilutski and Zach Meharey where they put their knowledge of protons to work to create circuits using play-doh and circuit components such as LEDs, battery packs and buzzers.


Brad Wile and Ashlea Krupa visited the other chemistry classes to talk about buoyancy and boat design to see how many pennies they could keep afloat using basic materials found around the house such as foil, straws, and popsicle sticks. The EAs tested the activity the night before and were able to keep 10 pennies afloat, the students blew them out of the water by keeping over 300 hundred pennies afloat in their superb boat designs!

The physics classes were in for a real treat, as Anna Rish and Matt DiNuzzo premiered a brand new presentation and activity, the Red Bull Space Jump! The presentation detailed the amazing engineering feats that made the space jump possible, then students were tasked with designing and building their own parachutes from tissue paper, foil, string, and a washer acting as the passenger. Designs were tested for flight time, with the longest flight time equaling the safest landing! The designs were innovative and unique providing a friendly competition among teams.

We wrapped up the day with a presentation about engineering careers, using the Pittsburgh Children's hospital to highlight the versatile and important roles of the engineers involved in building and maintaining the hospital.