system

Interesting that the young STEM kids were standing under a B-52G built in 1959 before their grandparents were their age. Great to see more budding engineers.

Arthur_Foyt

So, no actual model building or flying was done?

Arthur_Foyt

On second thought…

“Their submissions showed a sophisticated grasp of aircraft design for accomplishing an important and timely simulated mission—delivering COVID-19 vaccines to a remote area.”

WHY would you deliver vaccine for a communicable disease to a REMOTE area? A sophisticated grasp would have indicated no need for the mission or a redesign for it.

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John_C

GeeZ Arthur, the article is silent on if the mission was developed by the kids or provided as a requirement. Further, it did not appear nor imply any intent to build anything, just reinforce and test the team’s ability to design for a mission (mission validity is really not this focus nor worthy of your comment, if you can dig it). We should celebrate young people applying themselves and using their brains, rather than criticize. We need to show kids NOT to pay attention to the loud negative morons of all stripes dominating social media and politicizing everything that USED to be the domain of engineering and science, and encourage the kids to use their brains constructively, like these winner have. One of my biggest professional pleasures has been to help and encourage engineering interns to find their passion and pursue it. You should try it! It’s a really cool feeling to know there are handfuls of now aircraft and space designers and builders out there that I had a small positive influence upon.

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Arthur_Foyt

I agree, there ARE handfuls of new aircraft and space designers and builders out there who do not know structures or practical assembly skills.

jimhanson

So NOTHING WAS CONSTRUCTED–NOTHING NEW WAS LEARNED TO BENEFIT THE INDUSTRY–NOTHING OF VALUE WAS ACHIEVED–NO NEW THEORIES WERE ADVANCED–NO OLD THEORIES VALIDATED–and they got a “participation prize.”

I see a big future for them in academia, government, or “vaporware” companies.

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aapriluv

It appears the Luddites are overtaking the asylum.

system

Arthur, remote does not mean unpopulated. There are many small communities, both in the US and around the world that have little or no access to public health facilities. While the odds of those people contracting the disease are low, even a single infected person could do major damage to the village’s population, much like what happened in nursing homes. Such locations have been a major challenge to the public health community charged with distribution of vaccines in America.

John_C

Why you yelling? What of real value did you do in school, then??? Need a cookie??