Local students learn career options during National Engineering Week

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Students all across the country are celebrating National Engineering Week, including students at Glasgow High School.

Wednesday morning, two Glasgow High School graduates, Daniel and Sydney Cambron, who are now engineers, visited the school to tell students about their successes in the field.

“Her and her husband are both graduates of Glasgow High School and both engineer degrees, so it was a great time to bring them in,” said engineering teacher J.R. Dakin.

Students were able to learn about how college, internships and other related extracurricular activities can assist them in building a career.

“Engineering is about using our resources to make life better and so from the medical field to the construction field there is going to be opportunities for students to pursue engineering,” Dakin said.

According to the National Society of Professional Engineers, EWeek was founded in 1951 in order to ensure a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers.

“I like to think that engineers are the people in the background that keep the world working. You, know, we make sure that other people can get to work on the roads that we build and can be productive at work on the computers that we design and that kind of stuff.  Basically, there are so many things that you interact with on a day to day basis that an engineer designed or had a part in,” said Daniel Cambron.

Students were also given business cards from the Cambrons and information packets about the engineering program at the University of Kentucky.