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US Navy plants a new seed of future engineers
“Even though engineering was not one of my first options, now I will consider it. After attending this program I realized that I was able to do this,” Long Island resident Savory said.
Worried about the steep decline in U.S. science and engineering graduates, U.S. institutions such as the Navy and the NAVSEA — the command in charge of building, buying and maintaining the Navy’s ships- are promoting technology camps and competitions around the country. They’re doing it through partnerships with a growing number of associations such as the nonprofit Seat Pleasant, Md.-based Patriots Technology Training Center.
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The students built underwater robots and held a competition on July 3 at Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex.
Thurman Jones, president of the Patriots Technology Training Center, said that the number of participants grows every year. To support this summer’s edition -as well as other programs organized by the Patriots Center — the U.S. Navy and the NAVSEA provided more than $100,000 worth of in cash, technical equipment and volunteers, according to Jones.
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July 15th, 2008 at 11:55 am
My son is 12 and would love to attend such a camp if it were somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Other than trying to blindly google science camps, is there a site or page dedicated to listing what is available in the U.S.? I clicked on a few of your links and it seems most of the programs discussed are out east.