Another Successful National Engineering Month in Ontario!
Since 1992, National Engineering Month (NEM) has been celebrating engineering excellence across Canada and encouraging young people to consider engineering as a career choice. Each year during March, provinces and territories choose one week in the month for their particular celebrations. In Ontario, the National Engineering Week Steering Committee (NEWOSC) chose February 27 to March 7, 2010.
Building upon the success of last year’s program with Toronto Public Libraries, presentations by Engineers Without Borders (EWB) were made at 30 branches across the GTA. Over 1000 students in grades five to nine participated in an interactive workshop designed to raise awareness about “Water for the World” - how Canadians can do their part in protecting and managing our most valuable resource.
K’NEX Bridge Building Workshops were held at four Science Centres and museums in Kitchener, London, Sudbury and Toronto, with volunteers helping thousands of students and their parents build bridges in this very popular competition.
New this year was the Engineering Students Society’s Council of Ontario (ESSCO) Rube Goldberg Machine built by seven Ontario Engineering Societies connected in real-time over the Internet and culminating at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto. To view the video please go to NEM Gallery Page.
PEO, OACETT and Student Engineering Society Chapters held activities and events for NEM, organized and run by dedicated engineering volunteers. To view the event calendar please go to NEM Events Calendar page. Make sure to visit the NEM Gallery page to view some of the event photos.
“We want to thank our volunteers for the dedication and enthusiasm they bring to NEM. It makes our week of celebrating engineering so successful,” said Holly Anderson, P.Eng., NEWOSC Chair.
The five members of NEWOSC are the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE), Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), Consulting Engineers of Ontario (CEO), the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT) and the Ontario Science Centre.
