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Lockheed Martin engineers recently
visited classrooms at New Vista Middle
School and throughout the Antelope
Valley to show kids just how exciting
it is to be an engineer.
Signing a $6 million agreement
with Project Lead the Way to expand
STEM education in select urban school
districts throughout the United States,
Lockheed Martin partnered with the
National Geographic Society to refresh
its “Engineers in the Classroom” pro-
gram.
Advancing STEM education is a crit-
ical focus for the aerospace company
who needs 60,000 engineers, scientists
and IT professionals. The lesson was
themed, “Engineering Wind.”
Students in John Murphy’s 8th grade
physical science class in
Lancaster, got hands on experience
of how to make wind turbines using
Lockheed Martin engineers Cheryl Limas and Andrew Belis visit John Murphy’s
classroom at New Vista Middle School to show kids how exciting it is to be
an engineer.
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“The chairs you are sitting in, some-
one had to design them. Everything that
is made, someone had to think about it
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it — or had someone build it,” said
Cheryl Limas, a Lockheed Martin me-
chanical engineer. As a very little girl,
she enjoyed helping her father work on
cars.
After viewing a fast-paced video de-
picting the different types of engineer-
ing, students were eager to begin their
new task.
After designing and fastening wings
to a cork, students hooked their creation
up to a voltage meter and held it in front
of a fan to determine who could build
the fastest windmill.
“I guess bigger is not better,” huffed
Aaryn Bell, 13, as she quickly returned
to her desk to redesign new fins. “I
think it is the way you bend your blades
Photographs by Linda KC Reynolds
Students Janai Murphy and Jalynn Hill get their wind turbine tested by Lockheed Martin mechanical engineer, Cheryl
Limas, while teacher, John Murphy, watches during Engineers in the Classroom.”
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ference.” Bell, was proud to say she is room throughout the year to show real windmill. A single wind turbine can
taking STEM courses and will someday life application of what was taught. produce enough electricity for 150 to
become some type of an engineer. 400 homes.
“When you do a project based on
“It’s about optimization and learn- what they are learning and you can Previously, students studied “Motion
ing from your failures in design,” ex- interact like this, it is better than just and Forces.” In 1877 Ernst Mac from
plained Kevin Deal, an engineer sup- memorizing facts and formulas,” said Austria used bullets to record the speed
porting the F-35 program at Edwards Murphy. “A project makes things fun of sound and Mach 1 became an inter-
Air Force Base, as he helped kids with and it helps you to remember what you national reference — another subject
their projects. learned.” quite familiar to test pilots at Edwards,
Plant 42 and those living in the area.
Murphy wished he could have pro- In 1892 a Danish inventor construct-
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