Outreach program, engineering student featured in magazine

Sophomore Mechanical Engineering major Ellen Shade was featured recently in Progressive Railroading magazine for her involvement with the Wabtec Girls Who STEAM camp.

Sophomore Mechanical Engineering major Ellen Shade was featured recently in Progressive Railroading magazine for her involvement with the Wabtec Girls Who STEAM camp.

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Sophomore Mechanical Engineering major Ellen Shade was featured recently in Progressive Railroading magazine for her involvement with the Wabtec Girls Who STEAM camp, a summer camp for middle-school age girls who are interested in science, technolo­gy, engineering, the arts, and math. The camp is a partnership between Wabtec, which has a locomotive manufacturing plant in Erie, and Behrend, where most camp activities take place.

Shade spent camp week as a STEAM volunteer, helping dozens of campers and the Wabtec interns who mentor them find their way around the Behrend campus. Shade attended the very same camp as a seventh-grader and thought it would be fun to help the younger girls have the experience she had at that age.