Bringing High Tech to High Schoolers; How to Attract Kids to Science Careers
Posted on: Thursday, 2 June 2005, 21:00 CDT
Alarmed at the declining number of American science and math grads coming out of univerities, Teradyne Inc., Intel Corp. and Northeastern University have come up with a partial solution: "High Tech U."
OK, it's not a real university.
But it IS an effort by the companies, the university and the semiconductor industry to expose high-school students to sessions headed by real-life engineers and professors within the science and math fields.
Yesterday, a batch of 30 students from Boston and North Reading huddled at a Teradyne facility, learning firsthand about how semiconductors, computers and other high-tech gadgets work.
"I learned a lot about semiconductors," said Cyrus Mitchell, 16, a junior at Tech Boston Academy who wants to be an aeronautical engineer.
The three-day "High Tech U," organized and funded by the semiconductor industry, may be preaching to the converted with students like Mitchell, said Lisa Anderson of the trade group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International.
But the point is for students like Mitchell to spread the word and enthusiasm about studying science and math, Anderson said.
High-school students need all the enthusiasm they can get when it comes to those fields.
Recent studies have shown developing countries like China and India are outpacing America's production of engineering grads.
But Sean Hannan, human resources director for Boston-based Teradyne's semiconductor test-equipment unit, said America's economic future depends on the nation staying technologically competitive within the global economy.
The point of "High Tech U," which has traveled across the country giving sessions to students for three years, is to "expose . . . kids to the sciences and careers," Anderson said.
Caption: BLINDING THEM WITH SCIENCE: Test engineer Peter Romano shows 17-year-old student Chantaylor Perkins-King how to check a chip at yesterday's `High Tech U' program. Staff photo by Angela Rowlings
Source: Boston Herald
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