MIDDLEBURY SCHOOL PARTICIPATES IN NATIONAL ENGINEER’S WEEK

IBM Employees Demonstrate Engineering Experiments at LMES

 IBM has again teamed up with Region 15's Long Meadow Elementary School to introduce the world of engineering to students. An employee from the IBM/Southbury, CT facility met with 20 students about the field of engineering and coordinate an engineering/physics experiment.

 IBM employees, Doug Ziemke and Naya McCartney, visited Mrs. Beverly Poulin’s fifth-grade class, at Long Meadow Elementary School on Friday, April 25^th to help them figure out how to move a balloon across the room, using only balloon power, a straw, tape, and string. This is the fourth year that IBM employees have participated in Engineer’s Week at Long Meadow Elementary School. They will visit a first-grade class during the week of April 28^th.

 Additionally, the IBM team members will be holding an engineering experiment at Woodbury Middle School.

 IBM's role in supporting National Engineer's Week is to arouse student interest in mathematics, science and technology. National Engineers Week is an annual program, sponsored by many professional engineering association and corporations, including IBM, aimed at increasing public awareness of engineers' contributions to our society by celebrating innovation and technology.