"Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day" at Smith College

"Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day" at Smith College allows middle-school-aged girls to get a fun introduction to engineering and computer science! This year the event will be held on March 3rd in Ford Hall at Smith College.

This event is held annually at Smith College and is completely student run. It consists of a number of activities that are focused on engineering and computer science that girls can participate in to get a feel for what these fields are like to encourage them to pursue STEM fields as they grow older and help close the gender gap and increase diversity in science!

The link to the registration form can be found here: https://goo.gl/forms/TFh0xUD2D9YCbU0m2

There are only 120 spots available, so register early!

Questions?

Megan McGahren

Smith College

mmcgahren@smith.edu

(908)432-1409

ARHS Science Events and Opportunities Website

The ARHS science department has launched a new web page to share information about science events and opportunities in the local community. Currently posted are details about an upcoming "Women in Engineering and Computing Career Day" at UMass for high school girls.

If you would like to submit an event for possible inclusion, send it to ARHS lab technician, Deb Leonard at leonardd@arps.org. To learn about upcoming events, click here.

Fort River Alumni part of ARHS’s JETS Engineering Club Teams that win BEST IN STATE!

Alumni News! Reposted from ARHS PGO:

Congratulations to the JETS Teams!

This has been an outstanding year for Amherst Regional High School’s JETS Engineering Club. The club entered five teams (40 students, grades 9-12) into the national Test of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science (TEAM+S) and won Best in State at both the 9^th/10^th grade and 11^th/12^th grade level. All six teams finished in the top 10% nationally.

Our top finishing 11^th/12^th grade team consisted of seniors: Brody Lynch, Liam Brandt, Michael Kamlarz, Jonathan Hosea, Solomon Rueschemeyer-Bailey, Dennis Shen, Nathaniel Corp, and Jacob Kaplan.

Our top finishing 9^th/10^th grade team consisted of: 10^thgraders John Dinsmore, Alvaro Borrell, Doug Eveleigh, Aleksa Kosanovic, Alexandra Patton, Eric Thompson-Martin, Nathan Ji, and 9^th grader Tim Demling.

ARHS has competed in the TEAM+S competition since 1989. TEAM+S is a national high school academic competition formally sponsored by the Junior Engineering Technical Society and recently taken over by the Technology Student Association. More than 1,000 teams of students compete every year in a fun and fast-paced competition that inspires creativity, teamwork, critical thinking and valuable insight into the world of engineering.  The theme of this year’s competition was “Engineering the Tools of Innovation.” It challenged students to use their engineering and design skills to address pressing issues currently faced by computing and information technology industries.