ADVISORY, Feb. 18, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
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Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) will host 600 area high school sophomores |
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and juniors for engineering career day events in partnership with the Peninsula |
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Engineers Council (PEC) and NASA Langley Research Center to challenge their |
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skills and educate them about engineering as a career. |
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When: |
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Thursday, Feb. 21 |
Peninsula high school students |
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Friday, Feb. 22 |
Southside high school students |
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Schedule for both days: |
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9 a.m. |
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Open House—students have an opportunity to talk to |
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representatives from NNS, the PEC and NASA Langley in fields |
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of their interest. |
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10 a.m. |
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Presentation by Chris Giersch, NASA Langley education and |
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public outreach manager |
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10:15 a.m. |
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Round Robin begins—students rotate between career |
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tables and talk with NNS and NASA Langley engineers |
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11:15 a.m. |
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Design challenge begins—students team up to |
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participate in an engineering design challenge (NNS duct tape |
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boat building contest or NASA marshmallow lunar lander |
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contest) |
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12:15 p.m. |
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Lunch and presentation by Ron Murray, NNS vice president of |
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quality and process excellence |
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12:30 p.m. |
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Recognition of Design Challenge Winners by NNS Nuclear |
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Plant Engineer John Edwards, the 2012 PEC Young Engineer of |
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the Year |
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Where: |
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NNS Apprentice School Gymnasium |
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3900 Marshall Ave. |
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Newport News |
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RSVP: |
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Christie Miller, Huntington Ingalls Industries, (757) 380-3581 |
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Christine.Miller@hii-co.com |
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Please RSVP by noon on Wednesday, Feb. 20. |
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) designs, builds and maintains nuclear and non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and provides after-market services for military ships around the globe. For more than a century, HII has built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. HII also provides a wide variety of products and services to the commercial energy industry and other government customers, including the Department of Energy. Employing about 37,000 in Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and California, its primary business divisions are Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding. For more information about HII, visit:
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