Engineer Guest Speakers
/Last week we had guest speakers come to talk to us about engineering projects. On Wednesday we invited innovator and engineer, Jessamy Taylor, to visit us on Zoom. Jessamy showed us design plans and examples of a prosthetic climbing foot that she created. She described some of her other engineering and design projects as well. Students were fascinated to hear about her experiences rock climbing at smith rock too. You can read more about Jessamy Taylor here.
Brooke and Maddie are high school seniors from a local robotics team who came in to show us the robot they created for competition. This robot could pick up rings and toss them accurately into a box! It could also move quite quickly and pick up other objects.
Jessamy, Brooke, and Maddie all stressed the importance of persistence in engineering. Their inventions never worked perfectly the first time. Instead, their inventions took much trial and error. All of these remarkable engineers mentioned enjoying building, inventing, and exploring from a young age- just like our Otter students! Hearing from these amazing role models was a fitting way to end our Inspiring Individuals unit.
