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Clementina Okitikpi spent a recent summer morning with a pencil, a calculator, and a challenging chemistry problem: Figure out how many molecules of ammonia are in 10 kg of that substance. She was smiling, even as she wrinkled her forehead and bit her lip in concentration.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a challenge, and I like to be challenged,\u201d said the 16-year-old from Lagos, Nigeria. \u201cI want to learn all I can, so I can become a civil or environmental engineer someday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Okitikpi is one of more than 400 students taking part this summer in Engineering Innovation<\/a>, the Whiting School\u2019s intense, immersive precollege program that introduces engineering concepts and fields to bright, motivated high school students across the country. This summer, the program is being held at 12 sites, from California and Ohio to Pennsylvania and Maryland. Okitikpi is part of the cohort taking the course at SciTech High School in Harrisburg, PA.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time I have had the opportunity to be part of something like this, and I really like it,\u201d said the teenager, who just graduated from a Philadelphia high school in June, and will be attending Penn State University as an engineering major in the fall. \u201cI have only been in the United States since last year, and they didn\u2019t have a program like this in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Okitikpi, the EI program offers the opportunity to conquer basic \"\"engineering concepts and brush up on skills before entering PSU\u2019s classrooms in late August.<\/p>\n

For Hoang Le, one of her classmates, EI means not only a chance to prepare for the rigors of a college engineering program, but also the opportunity to be surrounded by others his age who care deeply about learning and achieving.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince middle school, I have heard of friends who took EI, had amazing experiences, and went on to really rigorous colleges in engineering, because the program helped set them up with a good foundation,\u201d said the 17-year-old, a rising junior at SciTech who came to the United States from Vietnam with his family when he was six years old. \u201cI like being surrounded by other people who feel like I do about learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Le particularly likes that EI involves not traditional classroom work involving pencil, paper, and calculators, but also practical, hands-on applications of that knowledge, such as Engineering Innovation\u2019s Spaghetti Bridge competition. In the much-anticipated end-of-program contest, teams of students compete to design and construct the strongest-possible bridges using only dry pasta and epoxy. Kilo by kilo, weight is added to the structures until they shatter. Prizes are awarded to the teams whose bridges hold the most weight.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cI really like that in this course, we get to apply what we learn to real problems, like building those bridges. It\u2019s a challenge, and it\u2019s fun,\u201d said Le.<\/p>\n

Classmate Peng Lu feels much the same way. The 16-year-old rising junior describes himself as \u201cone of those people who, when I was really little, would take things apart to figure out how they were made.\u201d<\/p>\n

An aspiring aeronautical engineer, Lu knows that in order to gain admission to engineering programs at schools like MIT, CalTech, Carnegie Mellon, and Johns Hopkins, he needs to set himself apart from his peers. He believes that what he is learning in Engineering Innovation this summer will help.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe course is a good introduction to engineering,\u201d said Lu, who came to the United States from China\u2019s Sichuan province with his family when he was four years old. \u201cBut it\u2019s also great that the program brings together kids from different schools, and that what we all have in common is our interest in engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lu likes the course so much, in fact, that he brushes aside questions about whether he minds spending three hours a day \u2013 at least \u2013 outside class studying and preparing for the next day.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey, I\u2019m OK with that,\u201d he said. \u201cI am a goal-oriented person and I like to be challenged. I don\u2019t want to just spend the summer sitting around. My opinion is that this is preparation for college, and that\u2019s important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kim Ketelsleger, EI Harrisburg teacher, calls this year\u2019s group of students \u201cphenomenal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have enjoyed teaching them challenging concepts ranging from circuit logic to structural design and watching them grasp the material. I was very impressed with how quickly the group became a team helping and learning from one another. The students improved their understanding of real world engineering applications and became more confident in problem solving,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-17981","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-stem-outreach"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEngineering Innovation Combines Engineering, Teamwork for Success - Center for Educational Outreach<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This summer, the Engineering Innovation immersive program is being held at 12 sites, from California and Ohio to Pennsylvania and Maryland.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/outreach\/news\/engineering-innovation-combines-engineering-teamwork-success\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Engineering Innovation Combines Engineering, Teamwork for Success - 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