ADVISORY, Feb. 19, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
What: | Engineering Week at Ingalls Shipbuilding |
When: | 10:45 a.m. Friday |
Where: | Haley Reeves Barbour Maritime Training Academy |
Who: | Ingalls Shipbuilding employees and students/teachers from Gautier Middle |
School, Magnolia Junior High School and Vancleave Middle School | |
RSVP: | Bill Glenn, Huntington Ingalls Industries, (228) 327-1671 or |
william.glenn@hii-co.com |
Please RSVP by 5 p.m. Thursday
On Friday, as part of Engineering Week 2014 and the company's ongoing activities to promote the STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering and math, Ingalls Shipbuilding will host students from three middle schools to learn about engineering as it pertains to shipbuilding. The students will also be involved in a friendly, hands-on competition involving engineering projects. The three schools participated in a can engineering program, where the students collected cans and are required to use engineering principles to build a can engineering structure. This year's theme is "Batman." The students were judged by Ingalls executives, and an awards presentation will be made following the competition.
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) designs, builds and maintains nuclear and non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and provides after-market services for military ships around the globe. For more than a century, HII has built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder at its Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding divisions. Employing more than 37,000 in Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and California, HII also provides a wide variety of products and services to the commercial energy industry and other government customers, including the Department of Energy. For more information, visit:
- HII on the web: www.huntingtoningalls.com
- HII on Facebook: www.facebook.com/HuntingtonIngallsIndustries
- HII on Twitter: twitter.com/hiindustries