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Rocket science with SWAN

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATRINA WAGNER

THURSDAY, MAY 18, 2023

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CODING WITH LEGOS — Systems engineer Carmen Copeland uses Lego bricks to teach students about binary coding with colors. Students decoded an action word to create a command for a robot. 
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3-2-1 BLAST OFF — Engineer Rebecca Bennett makes soda bottle rockets with a student during the Sandia Women’s Action Network’s visit at Mission Avenue Elementary School. SWAN members discussed historical women in science with the students and provided fun hands-on activities for 65 fifth graders.