CEEE Team Takes High Schoolers on a “Moon Mission”

Think quick: Given a piece of cardboard, aluminum foil, black construction paper, bendable straws and tape, how would you build a solar water heater to be stationed on the moon? That’s the challenge that 20 high school and community college students faced in an engineering activity led by the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Energy Engineering (CEEE) this summer as part of a STEM awareness workshop at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). The program is geared toward local students from demographics underrepresented in engineering.