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.