CU outreach program hopes to inspire engineers

BOULDER, Colo. — An outreach program that started with some extra rocket kits and a suggestion from Byron Young, a University of Colorado aerospace engineering major, has taken off since it started about 12 weeks ago. As part of the program, Young and other volunteers, most of them also engineers, go to local elementary schools, give a brief talk about engineering and then help the kids design, build and launch the model rockets.