LUBBOCK \u2014 Nearly 30 students from across West Texas explored energy and engineering careers while gaining hands-on STEM experience at the ExxonMobil STEM Camp on July 30 at Texas Tech University.<\/p>\n
Designed for Region 18 students in grades 9-12, the one-day camp introduced participants to science and technology used in the energy industry.<\/p>\n
Campers worked alongside Texas Tech students to build functioning reservoir models, explore carbon capture and storage technologies and use laboratory equipment to measure carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n
Throughout the day, students applied engineering principles, worked together to solve complex challenges and gained practical experience with concepts used by scientists and engineers.<\/p>\n
\u201cExxonMobil is proud to support this exciting hands-on academic camp,\u201d said Matt Mathis, ExxonMobil Midland production manager. \u201cThe interactive activities bridge the gap between classroom learning and real-world applications, giving these students a deeper understanding of how STEM skills are used to address today\u2019s energy and environmental challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n
The camp used curriculum developed by the Tapia Center at Rice University and also introduced students to college life and academic pathways in STEM fields.<\/p>\n
Students learned about college majors, connected with current university students and learned about higher education and career opportunities.<\/p>\n
The experience also gave students an achievement they can include on college applications and r\u00e9sum\u00e9s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK \u2014 Nearly 30 students from across West Texas explored energy and engineering careers while gaining hands-on STEM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,223],"class_list":["post-397744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}