Hawley Students Meet IBM Engineers

IBM program manager Tricia Johnson, executive consultant Nikki Costes, and security advisor Victor Ellul worked with Hawley Elementary School students on Thursday, April 28, to share information about engineering and their company.

“I want to share a few things about how you can be engineers with you today,” said Ms Johnson, who introduced objects the students would use to build paper windmills.

Ms Johnson asked students to create windmills in groups using index cards, a paper cup, a stick, and more. In order to replicate wind, as she explained, hairdryers were used.

2011 marks IBM’s centennial year, said Ms Johnson, “And they have done a lot of things over the years.”

While Ms Johnson demonstrated one way to make a windmill out of the given supplies, each group of students was tasked with finding their own solution to building a windmill.

“Today we are going to learn how to be engineers in a green way,” Ms Johnson said.