{"669913":{"#nid":"669913","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Designing Drones and Mars Rovers, STEP Campers See Possibilities of Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile some teenagers were lounging in the pool this summer, the Science, Technology, and Engineering Program (STEP) campers were building Mars rovers and operation-based drones. Now in its ninth year, the STEP Program at Georgia Tech is a free summer camp where high school students learn the engineering design process by completing task-based challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, for the first time, the camp hosted two sessions. One in Albany, Georgia, to serve the state\u2019s rural population, and the other on the Georgia Tech Atlanta campus. The participants in Albany were challenged to design a delivery drone, while those in Atlanta built rovers for Mars.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI want students to walk away from this camp with confidence in their abilities, knowing that they can go to college and be engineers,\u0022 said Lecturer Kelly Griendling, who leads the program and has been doing so for years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program is sponsored by the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (AE), Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL), Georgia Space Grant Consortium, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/georgia-tech-step-camp-exposes-students-possibilities-engineering\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full story on the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAE\u0027s free summer camp for high school students expands to Albany.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"AE\u0027s free summer camp for high school students expands to Albany."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2023-09-25 16:27:11","changed_gmt":"2023-09-25 16:30:43","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"671812":{"id":"671812","type":"image","title":"AE STEP Camp 2023","body":"\u003Cp\u003EKelly Griendling working with students at the Atlanta STEP Camp.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1691080039","gmt_created":"2023-08-03 16:27:19","changed":"1695659239","gmt_changed":"2023-09-25 16:27:19","alt":"Students at the STEP summer camp talk about their Mars rover design with camp organizer Kelly Griendling. (Photo: Monique Waddell)","file":{"fid":"254945","name":"STEP-camp-students-rover-kelly-griendling-t.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/09\/25\/STEP-camp-students-rover-kelly-griendling-t.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/09\/25\/STEP-camp-students-rover-kelly-griendling-t.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":671378,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/09\/25\/STEP-camp-students-rover-kelly-griendling-t.jpg?itok=vErdZjf6"}}},"media_ids":["671812"],"groups":[{"id":"551651","name":"Center for Engineering Education and Diversity (CEED)"},{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"289141","name":"Women in Engineering (WIE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:monique.waddell@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMonique Waddell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDaniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["monique.waddell@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}