About 350 Southern Arizona high school students were on campus last week learning the engineering design process through telescope building. 

Raytheon and its engineers, together with University of Arizona engineering students, faculty members and representatives of the Office of Early Academic Outreach, helped students who came from as far away as Nogales, Sierra Vista and Patagonia with the science project.

The effort is part of an initiative called MathMovesU, sponsored by Raytheon Missile Systems. Raytheon partnered with the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and the UA to provide the telescope-building opportunity to coincide with the 60th anniversary of National Engineers' Week.