MSD students learn about engineering, computing during Career Day
June 10, 2024
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Wendy Yagodinski, chair of Trine’s Department of Computer Science and Information
Technology. talks with students from Carlin Park Elementary School at the Metropolitan
School District of Steuben County's Career Day event.
Trine University faculty and students introduced third- through fifth-graders from
the Metropolitan School District of Steuben County to multiple engineering and computing
fields during MSD’s Career Day on May 20.
Wendy Yagodinski, chair of Trine’s Department of Computer Science and Information
Technology, Jeremy Goossens, director of esports, Gary Greene, Ph.D., chair of the
Reiners Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Amanda Malefyt, Ph.D.,
professor of chemical engineering, along with students from Trine’s Franks School
of Education, interacted with more than 500 MSD students at the event.
“Wendy has been doing quite a few outreach visits related to virtual reality and extended
reality with Carlin Park Elementary School,” said Malefyt. “They reached out to her
to see if she wanted to participate in the Career Day.”
“We then decided to create a booth that provided a more well-rounded view of the programs
we offer within the Allen School of Engineering and Computing at Trine to showcase
the variety of activities and careers engineering and computing can encompass.”
Students were able to use a Microsoft HoloLens mixed reality headset to construct
augmented reality play spaces. Third-graders made slime, fourth-graders constructed
airplane designs and tested flight distance and time, and fifth-graders built foamboard
truss bridges.
Supplies were provided through a Lilly Endowment grant to Trine’s Pre-College Outreach
and Engagement.
As we celebrate National Nurses Week, the nursing workforce is under pressure across the country. Staff shortages, high patient acuity and increasing complexity of care delivery are besetting our healthcare systems. Nursing education programs are being asked to provide graduates who will step directly into practice - faster, more efficiently and with the ability to cope at an increasingly fast pace with changing environments.
Mitch Daniels, former governor of the state of Indiana and former president of Purdue University, shared advice with graduates he said were entering a world he described as “the most promising and most uncertain and treacherous” as Trine University held Commencement ceremonies on May 2.
