SWENext

The 8th annual SWENext Design Challenge, this year the prompt encouraged students to take inspiration to prototype an engineering marvel and make it applicable to their community, culminates at the Leadership Training Conference. Students prototyped incredible projects this year: a modern colosseum, a delivery drone (no flight, just proof of concept), a green-energy zero-waste classroom- complete with grass roof, solar panel wall, and interactive engineering projects throughout!- and a working tesla coil. An astonishing group of young engineering really showed out for this challenge! During this all day event, students from those 4 different high schools demo'ed the scanning electron microscope in the MATE labs, tensile tested plastic, checked out the low speed wind tunnel with CP Wind Power, and toured the machine shops- complete with laser demo on how their awards were made! After lunch the group vision boarded, toured campus with a CENG certified tour guide, checked out the Prototype Vehicle Lab workday and car, heard from our amazing SWE advisor and director of the Women's Engineering Program, Helene Finger, shop tech lead, Ella Perry, and finished with a student panel!

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