USACE News

September

8 Sep 2020
Lake Barkley park ranger garners interpretive excellence award
GRAND RIVERS, Ky. (Sept. 8, 2020) – A Lake Barkley park ranger recently garnered the 2020 Interpretive Excellence Award from the commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division.
June

16 Jun 2018
Kids catch interest in outdoors, environment at fishing rodeo
ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. (June 16, 2018) – Kids caught fish and an interest in the outdoors and environment today during the Cheatham Lake Annual Fishing Rodeo.
May

6 May 2016
Lucky 13 tour new Diamond Elementary School site
SAVANNAH, Ga. – Excavators, bulldozers and dump trucks garnished the construction site of the new Diamond Elementary School where 13 wide-eyed students discovered diamonds aren’t forever but they can be your best friend.
March

10 Mar 2015
Outreach a ‘Wise’ pursuit to securing Corps’ future
SAVANNAH, Ga. – Millions of students are plagued by the age-old question, “What do I want to do for a living?” but the Corps helps to rectify this enigma by offering industry exposure to students at statewide outreach events.
November

7 Nov 2014
Futures in engineering begin in middle school
Take 35 enthusiastic middle school students, mix in a natural resource specialist, a biologist, an engineer and the backdrop of the Missouri River, with a barge and a dredger, and you get an education for our students, one STEM at a time.
April

10 Apr 2014
Dinosaur loans and crowd-sourcing archaeology: How Army archaeology supports historic preservation and modern education
ST. LOUIS - In an unassuming office in St. Louis, Dr. Michael "Sonny" Trimble and his team are working to get a 66-million-year-old, seven-ton tyrannosaurus safely packed and moved cross-country. This effort is just one part of a greater undertaking to preserve and share America's cultural and natural history.
November

14 Nov 2013
Paying it Forward: USACE Engineers Serve as Mentors, Guest Lecturers
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education is more than a passing trend for Derek Maxey and Don Whitmore, two registered professional engineers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District. Both quietly volunteer as guest lecturers at local universities, bringing their real-world experience and stories from the field to undergraduate students. Maxey, a mechanical engineer and Whitmore, a civil engineer, are committed to inspiring and mentoring tomorrow's engineers, they said.
July

26 Jul 2013
Corps collaborates on teacher training to help promote STEM
LOS ANGELES — Teachers from among 20 schools in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles gathered recently to learn techniques for incorporating hands-on activities related to science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, in their classrooms.
26 Jul 2013
Albuquerque District offers STEM Internship
People use acronyms and abbreviations such as NASA or FBI because they are less clumsy and easier to write and remember than the complete expression they represent. One of the newest acronyms gaining mainstream usage is STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
December

20 Dec 2012
Education efforts in 2012 focus on partnerships
The future of Team Redstone is in the hands of those that are students in elementary, middle and high schools across the Tennessee Valley today. To make sure they are well-equipped to handle the challenges of the future, Team Redstone has made it its mission to foster those future leaders.