{"id":177,"date":"2018-03-27T12:47:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sawe.org\/hamptonroads\/?p=177"},"modified":"2018-03-27T12:47:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:47:10","slug":"hr-chapter-supports-peninsula-engineers-council-pec-annual-career-day-event-at-nasa-langley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/2018\/03\/27\/hr-chapter-supports-peninsula-engineers-council-pec-annual-career-day-event-at-nasa-langley\/","title":{"rendered":"HR Chapter Supports Peninsula Engineers Council (PEC) Annual Career Day Event at NASA Langley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 22\/23, 2018, the Hampton Roads Chapter of the SAWE supported the Peninsula Engineers Council (PEC) Career Day event at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC).\u00a0 This is an annual event that provides an opportunity for local high school students to learn about careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).<\/p>\n<p>The SAWE mans a technical society table to discuss the mass properties discipline and related career fields with them as well as provide an opportunity to interact with us and see the models, posters, and videos we bring with us as well.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Nick Marickovich, Amanda Cutright, and David Cash manned the table and on Friday, Amanda, Jeff Cerro, Anjie Emmett, and Dave Covington did as well.\u00a0 Amanda, Jeff, Anjie, and Dave\u00a0all work at NASA, so this year we were really able to show off mass properties in the aerospace industry.\u00a0 When the event is held at Newport News Shipbuilding, there is a focus on the marine industry.<\/p>\n<p>The students also get\u00a0a chance to perform hands-on activities and here presentations as part of the main program during the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Additional pictures of the day can be seen on the <a href=\"https:\/\/va-pec.org\/\">PEC Website <\/a>when the photos are posted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-172 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/03\/2018-Career-Day-Booth-3.jpg?resize=525%2C295&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/03\/2018-Career-Day-Booth-3-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/03\/2018-Career-Day-Booth-3-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/03\/2018-Career-Day-Booth-3-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/03\/2018-Career-Day-Booth-3-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/03\/2018-Career-Day-Booth-3-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Marickovich and Amanda Cutright man the SAWE table on Thursday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-174\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-174 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/03\/2018-Career-Day-Booth-2.jpg?resize=525%2C295&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/03\/2018-Career-Day-Booth-2-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/03\/2018-Career-Day-Booth-2-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/03\/2018-Career-Day-Booth-2-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/03\/2018-Career-Day-Booth-2-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/03\/2018-Career-Day-Booth-2-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Cutright interacts with students during the 2018 PEC Career Day event at NASA Langley Research Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 22\/23, 2018, the Hampton Roads Chapter of the SAWE supported the Peninsula Engineers Council (PEC) Career Day event at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC).\u00a0 This is an annual event that provides an opportunity for local high school students to learn about careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The SAWE mans a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/2018\/03\/27\/hr-chapter-supports-peninsula-engineers-council-pec-annual-career-day-event-at-nasa-langley\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HR Chapter Supports Peninsula Engineers Council (PEC) Annual Career Day Event at NASA Langley&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}