Hundreds of students to compete in STEM challenges at UMaine, AP reports
The Associated Press reported hundreds of students will visit the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center on May 20 to compete in the Windstorm Challenge and the 8th annual Maine Wind Blade Challenge. The competitions are for middle- and high-school students. Winning team members will be offered internships with the center if they enroll at UMaine, according to the report. The Windstorm Challenge includes a turbine platform competition while the Maine Wind Blade Challenge brings together teams of students with composites companies to construct functional sets of wind blades, the article states. Habib Dagher, executive director of the UMaine Composites Center, said the competitions will inspire future engineers, scientists and business leaders. Sun Journal, Daily Journal and Seacoast Online carried the AP report.