High School Day exposes students to life as Mizzou engineers

Chemical engineering senior Phong Nguyen demonstrated the Stokes Flow activity on High School Day.

If you want to learn what it’s like to be an engineer, and more specifically, a Mizzou engineering student, there’s no better way than seeing for yourself.

Dozens of students descended upon Lafferre Hall on March 11 for High School Day, hosted by Mizzou Engineering Student Council (MESC). The event gives high school students from around the state an up-close-and-personal look at life inside Mizzou Engineering in a way few tours can match.

A snowy Saturday in Columbia was jam-packed with events, beginning with remarks from MU Engineering Dean Elizabeth Loboa and a Q&A panel with current MU Engineering students. There were recreational activities at the MizzouRec and a scavenger hunt — geared to introduce high schoolers to the various Engineering student organizations — interspersed between hands-on activities sponsored by each College of Engineering department.

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