Downtown
National Grid never stops planning for our future, keeping in mind that today’s students are tomorrow’s techies.
Industrious Brooklyn Technical High School students just finished the utility giant’s “Engineering Pipeline Program,” part of its Engineering our Future program, designed to inspire youth, and attract and develop future engineers.
Aspirants Nabiel Alam, Quanhao Li, and Shadae Boakye-Yiadom, who attended the academy last month, learned about electrical systems and natural gas infrastructure, plus how to cut a pipe and how to fuse it back together, using actual equipment used in the field.
The course included classroom instruction, hands-on-activities, site visits, research, and projects, providing the service-bound triumvirate with a once-in-a-lifetime work opportunity.
“These students are able to meet other high school students with the same interests, have some hands-on experience, and see the challenges engineers have to work on every day,” said Ed Ruszkowski, manager.
Standing O hopes they learned well because we all want to stay warm and cozy in the future.
National Grid [1 Metro Tech Center, at Myrtle Avenue and Jay Street in Downtown, (718) 403–2155].
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