STEMming from the community
Brig. Gen. Mark Toy, South Pacific Division (SPD), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), discusses ideas with students about their proposed inventions during a class at the U.S. Army’s Ten80 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math festival (STEMfest) at Sunset Station Jan. 8 in San Antonio. STEMfest connects industry, education and community by teaching middle and high school students the importance of real-world math, science and engineering problem solving. Local businesses and industry partners, like the Army, collaborate to formulate problem solving challenges relating to their industries. These challenges are designed to encourage students to take their best shot at developing a solution.