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Georgia Southern engineering faculty, students mentor local high schoolers in annual design competition
April 14, 2021
Wayne Johnson, Ph.D., examines a drone in preparation for the Engineering Design Challenge.
Georgia Southern University engineering students are helping mentor local high school students from Herschel V. Jenkins High School, Calvary Day School, Portal Middle High School and home school students as they design drone attachments as part of this year’s Engineering Design Challenge (EDC) on the Armstrong Campus in Savannah.
The high schoolers have spent months working with their STEM teacher, a practicing engineer, and a Georgia Southern engineering student, to design an excavation tool for the EDC 2021 theme “Eagle Remotely Operated Aerial Recovery 2.0 (ROAR).” When attached to a drone, the tool can be used to collect lunar soil an