April 2012
MITRE Hosts Scout Engineering Day
Uniforms at MITRE don't usually raise eyebrows. On a recent weekend, however, the uniforms belonged to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts participating in MITRE's first Scout Engineering Day. The event provides an opportunity for scouts to earn merit badges in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines.
February 2012
Local Students Introduced to Engineering at MITRE
They sat at round tables covered in bright table cloths, talking, laughing, and listening. High school students in hooded sweatshirts and letter jackets. MITRE engineers in suits and sweaters. All had one thing in common: a belief that women can make an impact through a career in engineering.
January 2012
Giving Students a MITRE "Sanctuary"
It had been a busy day for high school intern Johan Mejia. Much of it had been spent aiding in the preparation of various elements associated with the new phone system on MITRE's Bedford, Mass., campus. Another task involved tracking LAN/Voice and Network media inventory. As Mejia recounted his experiences, he noted that, among other things, he's learning how to make the cables for videoconference and other network media systems at MITRE.
October 2011
Students Share Nanotechnology Findings in Summer Review
Gold nanoparticles. Carbon nanotubes. Nano-enabled hybrid power systems. And those were just the morning presentations at the Nanosystems Research Group's 19th annual end-of-summer technical review. The group hires exceptional students from high schools and colleges across the country to serve as summer technical aides and to participate in cutting-edge nanotechnology research as part of the MITRE Student Program.
September 2011
Teenagers Benefit from Cybersecurity Outreach
When you were 16 or 17 years old, did you know anything about vulnerability assessment, binary exploitation, or cryptographic concepts? Did you have enough cybersecurity knowledge to earn industry practitioner certificates by the time you graduated from high school?
July 2011
Mentor Helps Students Find Their Place in Space
In early 2012, for the second time in five years, students at the University of Louisiana Lafayette will have a satellite slightly larger than a Rubik's cube shot into space. Jim Dieudonne, a graduate of UL Lafayette and a principal multi-discipline systems engineer in MITRE's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development, helped the students with both projects.
June 2011
Judging "Rube Goldberg Machines"
How hard is it to make a pot of coffee, or to get the cotton out of an aspirin bottle? In the fertile imagination of cartoonist Rube Goldberg such everyday tasks could involve a complex combination of machinery and steps numbering in the double digits.
May 2011
Ellenbogen Receives TJHS "Tommy" Award
James Ellenbogen, chief scientist in MITRE's Emerging Technologies Division, has been selected as a recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Partnership Fund's "Tommy" Award for his work in mentoring students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)-related fields. The award will be presented on June 2 at an awards ceremony in Vienna, Va.
April 2011
Gary Palmer: Guiding Students in Orlando
With a little help from MITRE's Gary Palmer, a team of Orlando, Fla.-area Civil Air Patrol cadets took first place to receive the Commander in Chief cup in the All Service division of the Air Force Association's (AFA) CyberPatriot III National Final Competition on April 1 in Washington, D.C.
October 2010
MITRE and Cornell are Engineering Ideas for the National Capital Region
For the past three years, members of MITRE's Operations Research and Systems Analysis department—known informally as the "ORmadillos"—have worked with students from Cornell's School of Operations Research and Information Engineering on a project aimed at improving emergency evacuation of the National Capital Region.
October 2010
Students Come to MITRE for Robot-Building Event
A three–day robotics workshop held recently on MITRE's Bedford, Mass. campus was part of MITRE's STEM Outreach Initiative, through which MITRE encourages young people to become involved in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.
June 2010
Solar Cars and the Science Bowl
Twenty-two MITRE employees from the McLean, Va., campus served as judges and competition officials at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) 2010 Solar Car Challenge. Heading the MITRE delegation was Bobby Blount, associate department head of MITRE's Field Intelligence Systems in San Antonio, Texas, who served as master of ceremonies for the race.
May 2010
MITRE Colorado Springs Hosts National Security Innovation Competition
Government officials, industry experts, and university teams from across North America gathered at MITRE's Colorado Springs site on May 7 for the fourth annual National Security Innovation Competition, sponsored by the Colorado Homeland Defense Alliance.
March 2010
Giving STEM Education a LIFT through Corporate Cooperation
The national STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) program will ultimately help support our local and national economy. This theme was evident at a recent corporate partnership event co-sponsored by MITRE, along with the Mass High Technology Council, Defense Technology Initiative, and the Mass Technology Leadership Council.
March 2010
Bringing Robotics to Life
MITRE's Jennifer Casper and Suzanne Logan mentor teenagers in Massachusetts Botball and FIRST robotics competitions. Besides learning how to design, build, and operate these futuristic machines, the kids learn valuable lessons in collaboration and hard work.
March 2009
Shaping Next-Generation Math Stars
It's hardly surprising that Edith Mooers embarked on a career in advanced mathematics: her parents were both computer pioneers who passed on a passion for learning. A lead radar data analysis engineer at MITRE in Bedford, Mass., Mooers earned a Ph.D. in pure mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles for several years.
March 2009
Tallapragada Among Intel Science Talent Search Winners
One of America's brightest young scientists, Naren Tallapragada, was named a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search. He's already made his mark in the field of nanotechnology, thanks to his work at MITRE as a student technical aide.
November 2009
Girls Just Wanna Be Engineers
"I was the only woman in my doctoral program and was sometimes mistaken for a university employee because there were so few women in the engineering building," explained Julie DelVecchio Savage, a chief engineer at MITRE and the keynote speaker at Young Women in Engineering Day on Nov. 13 at MITRE's Bedford campus. "Other women paved the way for me in this field; we hope today helps you and offers a support network for reaching your goals."
November 2009
Breaking the Myth for High School Girls: Engineering Can Be Cool
On Thursday, April 23, MITRE helped 20 science-minded girls from Northern Virginia explore some of the many career options open to them at the company's third annual Young Women in Engineering event. During the day-long program, the girls were introduced to various technologies being developed at MITRE and learning about possible career opportunities.
September 2009
From the Classroom to the Cubicle: MITRE Sponsors Externships for Local Teachers
When high school math teachers Ashley McGrath and Karen Strader arrived at MITRE's Bedford, Mass. campus this summer, neither had worked outside of a school environment. But after six weeks in the Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems (CIIS), they have a new perspective and lots of ideas they say they can't wait to apply to their classrooms.
July 2008
Breaking the Mold: MITRE Hosts Young Women in Engineering Event (2008)
At its second annual "Young Women in Engineering" event on Friday, April 11, MITRE's McLean, Va., location introduced 35 math and science-minded teenage girls from Northern Virginia to various careers available to them in the world of engineering and other technical disciplines.
June 2007
MITRE Hosts "Girls in Engineering" Day (2007)
To help spark girls' interest in engineering careers, MITRE McLean hosted a group of more than 40 Fairfax County high school and middle school students on April 13 for a special "Girls in Engineering" day.
March 2007
Everybody Wins: Thirty Minutes of Storytelling Makes a Difference in Young People's Lives
One evening a couple of years ago, lead engineer John Nordmann attended a fundraiser that would turn out to impact his life. After listening to stories about children learning to love reading through a one-on-one "buddy" program with adults, Nordmann realized that the program—called Everybody Wins—would be a perfect match for MITRE volunteers.
December 2005
West Pointer Takes to Deeper Water
Despite his lineage—graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point—Miami site leader Bill Knickerbocker will always carry the title Commodore. In June 2005, he was appointed Sea Scout Commodore for the three-county South Florida Council of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
July 2005
Volunteers Help Solve a Gen-Y Problem: Managing Expectations to Keep College Kids in Engineering
When staff from MITRE's office in Hampton, VA, began discussing with local universities how they could collaborate on research projects, the problem of keeping kids in school came up. Students in computer science classes were dropping out before completing their first two years. They weren't motivated and had unrealistic expectations. So MITRE's Tidewater Research Council (TRC) in Hampton worked with local schools to develop an outreach program that is turning the tide.
April 2004
Lego League Mission to Mars Challenge for 2003
It was at Back-to-School night at Thompson Middle School in September 2003, when Diane Woodall was waiting to talk to her son's teacher. She overheard the science teacher mention to another parent that she was looking forward to the Robotics Team working on this past year's annual FIRST LEGO League challenge-Mission to Mars. FIRST LEGO League (FLL) is an international program for children created in a partnership between FIRST and the LEGO Company. Each September, FLL announces the annual Challenge to teams, which engages them in hands-on robotics design and authentic scientific research.
July 2003
MITRE Helps Galaxy Explorers Fly into the Future
The Federation of Galaxy Explorers is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that was founded by Nicholas Eftimiades. When Nick told one of his site colleagues, Phil Tsang, about his concern for today's generation and society not getting enough exposure and education in engineering and aerospace, Phil wanted to help. His first thought was bringing companies into the effort.
May 2003
Students Look Forward to Meeting MITRE Mentors
MITRE's Dogwood Elementary School mentoring program has been in existence for the last four school years. Started by Vicki Cloutier, the program has thrived despite many upheavals at Dogwood—new administration, a new year-round schedule, and even a fire that destroyed the building.
September 2002
San Antonio Creates Tomorrow's Engineers
When MITRE was asked by the Northside Independent School District Partnerships Office to establish a school-business partnership with Rayburn Middle School in San Antonio six years ago, MITRE San Antonio enthusiastically said "Yes!" The company agreed to provide technology and curriculum development support, one-on-one mentors, a business representative to their school advisory team, and an enriched mentor program.
