BrightPath’s Young Black Scholars LEAP Program

Dr. Wagenseil and Dr. Weisensee worked in collaboration with the BrightPath STEAM Academy to present the Young Black Scholars LEAP Program. LEAP stands for “Learning Engineering to Accentuate Possibilities”. For six weeks of Saturdays, 16 middle school students and their chaperones came to the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis for lectures and hands on activities focused on different areas of engineering. The schedule included:

Name	Title
Dr. Barani Raman	The mysterious sense of smell
Dr. Young-Shin Jun	Introduction to environmental challenges and environmental engineering
Dr. Marcus Foston	Making plastics from plants
Dr. Spencer Lake	Musculoskeletal soft tissue mechanics
Dr. Damena Agonafer	Beat the heat
Dr. Alvitta Ottley	Making sense of data