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Garber-Billings News July 15th, 2021
OU Summer Program
Introduces High School
Students to Engineering
NORMAN, OK (July Days and incorporate the ready a passion of mine.
FAPC Hosts Training for
Food Business
13, 2021) - At a summer projects and activities into Engineering Days only
camp at the University of his classroom, solidified that fact,” Kim
Oklahoma, high schoolju- “I liked how we dis- said.
niors and seniors learned cussed what, where and As for Kim’s favorite
Entrepreneurs
By Kirsten Hollansworth
STILLWATER, Okla. - Oklahoma State University’s Robert M. Kerr Food and
Agricultural Products Center faculty and staff hosted a Basic Training Entrepreneur-
ial Workshop to introduce participants to FAPC services and build connections with
how to create a Styrofoam why we would do these activity at the day camp? government and industry professionals.
support beam, build a activities in real life,” The Styrofoam support “The Basic Training workshop is an all-inclusive introduction to starting a food
Popsicle stick bridge and Grzvbowski said. “For beam without a doubt, business,” said Andrea Graves, FAPC business planning and marketing specialist,
code a LabView robot, computer science, 1 now And what else did he like? “I find it very rewarding because it opens the eyes of creative people to the commit-
They learned these engi- can have students use geo- “Everything! From the ment and responsibility it takes to start a business.'
neering marvels and more metric properties, code lectures to the activities - Participants attended the Basic Training workshop June 17 at the OSU-Stillwater
during OU Engineering properties in Minecraft or and especially the food.” campus. While meeting with faculty and staff, the training allowed participants to
Days sponsored by Boe- make a route for a drone ### Learn more about address issues through business planning assistance, market identification, strategies
ing, a day camp where to take.”
students experience dif-
ferent engineering fields
on the Norman campus.
About 90 students from
Oklahoma, Arkansas,
Kansas and Texas took
part in the June event.
The program
how OU works with youth and an explanation of food processing regulations.
focus, and encourages STEM “FAPC wants these entrepreneurs to do it right and be successful from day one,"
however, continues to be education. For more in- Graves said. “Basic Training is a great first step. Not only do they get information,
on high school students, formation, contact Dalton but they are introduced to critical connections to help support them on their journey."
“Engineering Days defi- Brasington, outreach and Trademarking is one of many topics covered during the w orkshop. Suzanne Rein-
nitely showed me what I recruiting coordinator for man, a library' professor at the OSU Patent and Trademark Resource Center, said the
may be doing as an engi- the OU Gallogly College Basic Training workshop is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to learn about trade-
neer and made it seem less of Engineering, at 405- marks, which can be the most valuable asset of a business.
Engineering Days pro- daunting and more fea- 325-3445 or dbrasing- “When starting a business, it is so important to do a thorough search to be certain
vides rising juniors and sible,” said Kaegan Reyn- ton@ou.edu. that the same name for similar products or services is not already being used by an-
seniors with a glimpse olds, an Aubrey (Texas) As a leading global other company,” Reinman said.
into college-level con-
cepts in the diverse field
High School student.
aerospace company, Boe-
Norman (Oklahoma) ing develops, manufac-
of engineering. The class- North High School stu- tures and services com-
From experience working at the OSU Patent and Trademark Resource Center since
2006, Reinman advises new entrepreneurs to create a distinctive mark by consider-
ing making up a new word, placing unrelated terms together, or using suggestive
es are taught by faculty dent Cristiana Eagen mercial airplanes, defense words to create an impression.
w ho bring real-world ex- agrees and added, “I en- products and space sys- The Basic Training for Food Entrepreneurs also is offered in an online and self-
pertise into the classroom, joyed meeting new peo- terns for customers in paced course. The online training consists of 11 modules with interactive learning
says Dalton Brasington ple, learning about spe- more than 150 countries, activities and quizzes.
w ho oversees outreach cific engineering fields Asatop U.S. exporter, the FAPC, a part of OSU’s Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources,
and recruitment for the and working on different company leverages the helps to discover, develop and deliver technical and business information that will
OU Gallogly College of projects.”
talents of a global supplier stimulate and support the grow th of value-added food and agricultural products and
Engineering.
Chad Kim, a Westmoore base to advance economic processing in Oklahoma.
“Engineering Days ex- High School student in opportunity, sustainability
pose high school juniors Oklahoma City, says he and community impact,
and seniors to the wide was interested in engi- Boeing's diverse team is
world of engineering neering before attending committed to innovating
through exciting projects the day camp, but wasn't for the future and living
and dynamic learning en- sure what type of engi- the company’s core val-
vironments. Each camp neering to study after he ues of safety, quality and
day focuses on a different graduates.
discipline,” Brasington
said.
High school students of-
ten are not exposed to en-
gineering in a traditional
classroom environment,
Brasington says. “This
lack of exposure is why
Engineering Days were
created - to offer acces-
sible and affordable expe-
riences to young people,”
he said.
Around 10 faculty,
along with 20 of their stu-
dents, taught at this year's
event. Engineering faculty
guided students through
hands-on explorations of
engineering and science
concepts. For instance,
engineering physics fac-
ulty introduced students
to advanced topics in
magnetism and optics, as
well as provided a tour of
a world-leading research
lab. On another day, stu-
dents built a miniature so-
lar car in the morning and
repurposed it to a hydro-
gen car in the afternoon.
“For students, experi-
encing two different ways
to power a vehicle with
renewable energy was im-
portant because this new
generation of engineers
will need to prioritize sus-
tainable transportation,”
Brasington said.
Another OU program
works in sync with Engi-
neering Days by helping
educators explore new
approaches to integrating
engineering into their sci-
ence and math instruction.
Thomas Grzybowski, a
math teacher at Mustang
(Oklahoma) High School,
says he will take what he
learned at Engineering
integrity.
Participants attended
the FAPC Basic Train-
ing Entrepreneurial
Workshop at the OSU-
Stillw ater campus.
Picture by Kirsten Hol-
lansworth
“Engineering was al-
Sun Grant Supports Biofuel Research Of
Sweetgum Trees
By Gail Ellis
STILLWATER, Okla, quickly in Oklahoma,” a project leader at LSU’s The research partner- exploring opportunities
-Oklahoma State Univer- Will said. “It's an adapt- AgCenter Hill Farm Re- ship between Hurliman
sity researchers are study- able tree that can be plant-
ing hybrid sweetgum trees ed on a wide range of soils
as a potential feedstock and sites in the eastern
search Station.
and faculty from OSU
“Between the Oklahoma and LSU also will involve
and Louisiana locations, contributions from gradu-
with sweetgum to deter-
mine how far it can thrive
throughout the region.”
In addition to fulfilling
for biobased industries in part of the state.” we'll be able to observe ate students during the the team’s research goals,
the south-central region of Most of the research sweetgum’s growth and next three years. The po- Hurliman said the grant
the U.S. will be conducted on development in a hyper- tential of hardwood feed- also will benefit progres-
OSU faculty Omkar sweetgum plantations controlled experiment and stocks as a biofuel has sive foresters like himself
Joshi, Rodney Will, Bryan owned and managed by under operational condi- been studied in the past, who are open to innova-
Murray and Lu Zhai in the forester Ed Hurliman in tions. That will help us but increasing the produc- tive and effective methods
Natural Resource Ecology the Broken Bow area, pinpoint sweetgum's vari- tivity of hybrid sweetgum of improving operations,
and Management Depart- When hardwood sawtim- ability on an operational varieties through differ- “I love forestry and
ment, along with Mike ber and pulpwood prices scale and get a sense of ent growth techniques is a knowing what tweaks
Blazier from Louisiana increased a few years ago, its full growth potential,” new venture.
you can make to impact
State University, have Hurliman decided to ex- Blazier said. “We'll bridge “We're relying on our growth. OSU research
been awarded a Sun Grant periment by planting ad- the gap between optimum resources and econom- translates into bottom-line
to pursue research in the ditional varieties of hard- and typical growing envi- ics to advance the sci- profits for us,” he said.
region. The grant supports wood trees. Although the ronments.”
three years of study on the majority of what he grows __________
growth, productivity, eco- is loblolly pine, he also
nomics and social accep- has 2,000 acres of native
tance of hybrid sweetgum and hybrid sweetgum.
as a bioenergy fuel.
“We selected hybrid
“If the bioindustry be- seedlings with the best ge-
comes established in the netics for our plantations,”
future, this research will Hurliman said. “The hy-
position us to leverage brid is a cross between
that economy with the Formosa sweetgum trees
appropriate feedstocks,” and American sweetgum.
Will said.
I’ll serve as a guide to our
Sweetgum is an impor- plantations in Oklahoma
tant species for pulp, pa- and Texas and share the
per, lumber and railroad access I have to other for-
crossties. Due to its desir- ests of sweetgum in Texas
able growth rate, form and and Arkansas.”
density, sweetgum is an As OSU researchers
ideal hardwood with a per conduct field measure-
ton market value equiva- ments at Hurliman’s plan-
lent to or greater than pine tations, out-of-state col-
in southeast Oklahoma. leagues, including Blazier
“We want to assess from LSU, will gather ad-
sweetgum’s ability to ditional data at another
grow wood and fiber sweetgum site. Blazier is
ence,” Joshi said. “We're
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Deeds, Lacey. Garber Billings News (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 121, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 2021, newspaper, July 15, 2021; Garber, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2280262/m1/4/: accessed May 9, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.