UA Students Working to Retain Aspiring Engineers
UA students with the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers hosted the annual Advancement of Latinos in Engineering Day, which continues to grow each year.
High-school students launch a rocket they built at the annual Advancement of Latinos in Engineering Day, organized by the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and held on the UA campus.
It's getting easier for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers to engage a group of high school students in missile-building workshops and competitions to build race cars equipped with lights and sounds.
But the University of Arizona student-run chapter finds it difficult to retain that interest after the students graduate from high school.
To address that problem, the UA chapter of the nationwide society introduced MentorSHPE, a new mentoring program, during its fourth annual Advancement of Latinos in Engineering Day, which was held last week.