POCLAIN HYDRAULICS SUPPORTS NFPA'S FLUID POWER ACTION CHALLENGE
Poclain Hydraulics has long been involved with NFPA’s fluid power challenge through a number of different channels. Most recently Poclain Hydraulics Application Engineers donated their time and efforts to judge the Fluid Power Action Challenge for local middle school students held at Milwaukee School of Engineering’s (MSOE) Kern Center and hosted by MSOE’s Tom Wanke, CFPE and Director of Fluid Power Industrial Consortium and Industry Relations on November 13.
The NFPA Fluid Power Action Challenge is an educational competition designed to introduce science and engineering to middle school students in a fun and friendly environment. Students learn about the basics of fluid power, teamwork, coordination, and organization, as they experiment and design their own unique machine.
During this challenge volunteers from Poclain Hydraulics as well as other local businesses worked with a number of middle school teams to give them the opportunity to tackle a simulated real world problem presented to them with fluid power. Students participating in this year’s challenge were tasked with building a fluid power system that was capable of lifting up objects and moving them to different specified areas. The systems were judged based on design, team work, the portfolios developed as well as the overall ability of the system to achieve its intended function effectively. The students needed to meet specified design requirements and work together as a team within a set time frame. The volunteers met with the students on two separate occasions: first to introduce and launch the program, and later to judge the final projects.
Poclain Hydraulics strongly believes in promoting STEM careers to our local youth and fostering an interest in the fluid power field and continues to do so by supporting this and other programs.
Poclain Hydraulics has long been involved with NFPA’s fluid power challenge through a number of different channels. Most recently Poclain Hydraulics Application Engineers donated their time and efforts to judge the Fluid Power Action Challenge for local middle school students held at Milwaukee School of Engineering’s (MSOE) Kern Center and hosted by MSOE’s Tom Wanke, CFPE and Director of Fluid Power Industrial Consortium and Industry Relations on November 13.
The NFPA Fluid Power Action Challenge is an educational competition designed to introduce science and engineering to middle school students in a fun and friendly environment. Students learn about the basics of fluid power, teamwork, coordination, and organization, as they experiment and design their own unique machine.
During this challenge volunteers from Poclain Hydraulics as well as other local businesses worked with a number of middle school teams to give them the opportunity to tackle a simulated real world problem presented to them with fluid power. Students participating in this year’s challenge were tasked with building a fluid power system that was capable of lifting up objects and moving them to different specified areas. The systems were judged based on design, team work, the portfolios developed as well as the overall ability of the system to achieve its intended function effectively. The students needed to meet specified design requirements and work together as a team within a set time frame. The volunteers met with the students on two separate occasions: first to introduce and launch the program, and later to judge the final projects.
Poclain Hydraulics strongly believes in promoting STEM careers to our local youth and fostering an interest in the fluid power field and continues to do so by supporting this and other programs.