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BY ERIC KOWAL Picatinny Arsenal Public Affairs Kindergarteners enrolled in Picatinny Child Youth Services School Age Services program received a spe- cial visit from a top proponent of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) initiative. Ralph Tillinghast, Science and Technology Advisor for Fire Control Systems and Technology Directorate, part of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Com- mand Armaments with the children to provide them with a hands-on approach to science. is critical to reach back to the kindergarten and early grades to make sure the students are building an understand- ing and STEM vocabulary, so when they begin to make choices about their future in later grades, they understand what STEM is and see it as an said. Jody Bisceglia, a management analyst with the Arma- ments Human Capital Management Office, and mother of a class member, 5-year-old Stefano, helped to organize the event.

have the engineer and scientist expertise in our own backyard. If we are not reaching the kindergarten at Picat- inny, we are not doing our Bisceglia said. overall goal is to make sure the kids see how engi- neering and science are part of their lives and to make sure they all know they are already engineers and scientists. That they have the capability to solve problems, using the and tools they already she said. With their youthful listeners, Bisceglia and Tillinghast spoke about engineering and the art of inventing.

They helped to make students aware why failure is import- ant in the learning process. In additional, the children were allowed them to touch and play with a 3-D scanner and 3-D printer technology. One of the activities during the program was understand- ing the difference between a guess and a prediction.Objects such as a billiard ball, light bulb, and even a dirty rolled down a ramp. The kids tried to predict where the objects would stop rolling, based on what they had observed from the previous rolling object. ability to move from a guess, (no knowledge of what may happen) to a prediction (where you use the information gained from your experiences and experiments), is a basic skill for engineers and scientist.That’s what we wanted the kids to said.

we started and asked the kids howmany of them are engineers, we only got two or three hands. When we asked at the end, almost every hand went up.That empow- erment is why we do STEM he added. STEMOffice often works with local middle and high schools in coordinating educational events, such as solar races, 3-D printing class, summer STEM programs and various robotics competitions. The future of engineering starts with our kindergarteners ICE system helps to improve services from Picatinny Arsenal garrison The Picatinny Voice April 12, 2019 12 International Federation of Professional and Technical Local 1437 Representing the Professional Bargaining Unit (Scientists, Engineers, Accountants, Librarians) at Picatinny since 1973 Visit us at https://picac2w5.pica.army.mil/ or come to our General Membership Meeting held in Bldg. 323 on the second Tuesday of every month.

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