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Students get behind the wheel at engineering camp

By Dave Graves July 31, 2024
Youth Engineering and Technology Career Exploration campers pose in front of the aggregate screening and washing plant at LG Everist in Brookings. Tim Hostettler, head of the Concrete Industry Management program, took the students on the tour of the rock plant.
Youth Engineering and Technology Career Exploration campers pose in front of the aggregate screening and washing plant at LG Everist in Brookings. Tim Hostettler, head of the Concrete Industry Management program, took the students on the tour of the rock plant.

Sixteen participants in Youth Engineering and Technology Career Exploration camp at South Dakota State University got a chance to test drive a Baja Buggy and Formula car built by State students as well as build robot cars and do other hands-on engineering activities and even play cricket with Sanjeev Kumar, dean of the Lohr College of Engineering.

The annual program is designed to build understanding, interest and enthusiasm for engineering and technology as a career.

Most of the high school students hailed from South Dakota and Minnesota, however, the camp also drew New York City resident Owen Roddy, whose grandparents live in the Flandreau area.

Other activities during the July 7-12 program included watching the college’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge excavator operate at a local quarry, tour scoreboard giant Daktronics and compete in robot competitions.

Kristian Reichenberg, an incoming senior at Harrisburg High School, squeezes himself into the Baja Buggy before the Youth Engineering and Technology Career Exploration camp participant takes a loop in the Big East parking lot on campus July 8. Note the steering wheel in the hand of camp assistant Delaney Baumberger, an SDSU mechanical engineering student. The student-built buggy was designed to have an easily removable steering wheel to make entrance and exit of the vehicle faster.
Kristian Reichenberg, an incoming senior at Harrisburg High School, squeezes himself into the Baja Buggy before the Youth Engineering and Technology Career Exploration camp participant takes a loop in the Big East parking lot on campus July 8. Note the steering wheel in the hand of camp assistant Delaney Baumberger, an SDSU mechanical engineering student. The student-built buggy was designed to have an easily removable steering wheel to make entrance and exit of the vehicle faster. 

 

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