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WATCH U.S. FLY Designing the Future of STEM By Sam Whiting, Director, Boeing Global Engagement
Designing the Future of STEM
The child of a Boeing employee works on a FUTURE U — Photo Credit: The Boeing Company
During the summer of 2019, a few Boeing employees were given a challenge: Create a
fun way to teach kids about the science behind satellite communications.
Sam Whiting
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Director,
Boeing Global Engagement
The Boeing Company
Villy Angelico, a Boeing Test and Evaluation systems engineer, eagerly joined the team,
which also included employees from Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space Systems in El
Segundo, California.
“My kids struggle with connecting what they learn in school to how it applies to real-life
engineering,” Angelico said. “Design challenges help make that connection.”
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