Girl Day – Supported by Raytheon

Raytheon engineer Leticia Diaz, a Palos Verdes resident, was a “Club Kid” growing up in San Pedro. On February 25, she helped another generation of Boys & Girls Club of the L.A. Harbor members gain exposure to STEM education and careers in engineering. The middle school girls worked in teams to build a bridge out of pasta. Girl Day is a national initiative of Discover E, the organization responsible for spearheading Engineers Week annually. This is the second annual Girl Day celebration that Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems has hosted at the BGCLAH.

Girl Day – Supported by Raytheon

Girl Day Is a national initiative from DiscoverE, the organization that promotes the annual Engineers Week celebration. Raytheon is a supporter of the Boys & Girls Clubs and so it was a natural marrying of efforts for the day. The Southern California event took place on February 25 at the San Pedro Club of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Los Angeles Harbor (BGCLAH).They had about 15 volunteers from Raytheon’s Space and Airborne Systems office in El Segundo help the 60+ middle school girls erect bridges from dry pasta noodles. Divided in teams of five or six, the girls attached lasagna and spaghetti noodles with rubber cement and duct tape. The bridges gained points for design, ability to allow a Matchbox car run across it, and the weight that could be hung from the bridge (measured in bags of rice).

Photos by Patrick McIntyre