Thumbs up to a Minnesota State University, Mankato partnership with an ethnic middle school program that hosted children from different ethnic backgrounds at a camp to learn about their heritage but also to learn about careers they may not have thought about.
The program that was held at Minnesota State Mankato the last week in June offered children exercises and experiments to understand civil engineering.
It was a partnership between Minnesota State Mankato's Minnesota Center for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence and the Ethnic Heritage Middle School Program. The idea is to get children from different ethnic backgrounds experiencing what it might feel like to be an engineer, for example. Minnesota State Mankato offered some of its professors as instructors for the group.
The program this year offered hands-on experiences teaching the students through a “get dirty” experiment how a flood might affect the landscape. The program is another good example of two groups forming a partnership to enhance the offerings they each might have separately.
For the online Free Press editorial, click on http://mankatofreepress.com/editorials/x1907083687/Our-View-Ethnic-program-bolsters-ambitions?mailingdate=201007100602
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