ICE and UAPB Inspire Future Engineers: Jefferson County Students Build Model Rockets with Parents and UAPB Professor

Jefferson County, Arkansas, middle and high school students and their parents built model Estes Journey Launch Rockets at the Ivy Center for Education’s (ICE) program for Future Engineers at The Generator on Main Street in Pine Bluff, AR. The program is part of a March hybrid in-person and Zoom workshop with plans to lead to a model rocket launch experience for the community. Dr. Sederick Charles Rice, a University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) STEM professor, led the seminar by sharing Estes Journey Launch Rocket kits with scholars present and asked their parents to help with the build experience.

Artificial Intelligence: A Hot Topic for ICE Future Engineers Program

An introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) was the hot topic at February’s Future Engineers Program hosted by The Ivy Center for Education (ICE). Dr. Sederick Charles Rice and Dr. Karl Walker, biology, and computer science professors at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB), led the hybrid in-person and Zoom workshop for middle and high school scholars at The Generator on Main Street in Pine Bluff.