Estela’s Escuelas heads to Da Vinci School

Schools in El Paso are coming up with exciting ways to get students interested in “STEM” fields … science, technology, engineering and math.

ABC-7 visited the Da Vinci School for Science and the Arts Thursday where students worked with engineers from the University of Alabama at Huntsville to launch a balloon with a payload into the atmosphere. UAH is the premiere university pipeline for NASA recruits.

Students said the exercise gave them an idea of how engineers work together during special projects.

One student told ABC-7, “even if you’re not going into anything that does not have to do with engineering and science, it helps you a lot because you learn how to work with people because you’re put into group and sometimes you don’t want to work with some individuals but it helps you work with them and know their strengths and their weaknesses and it helps you to learn yours as well.”

Students enrolled in the step program at Irvin and Montwood high schools also participated in the activity.