Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Group Visits

By Ginger Cairnes

Bernie Garbowski discusses one of the many features of which the Out-the-Tower view is capable. This lab is located in the Tower/TRACON Modeling and Simulation Building.

Every year the Minority Serving Institutions Summer Internship Program leaders arrange a visit to the Tech Center for students working for the FAA in Washington, in order to expose the students to the many programs and facilities that are here. Programs participating in the visit this year included the Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities (HACU), the Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU), the Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders (AAPI), and summer hires.

One of the intern’s looks skeptically as another appears to be "listening" to one of the crashworthiness ergonomic dummies.

About 36 employees including their chaperones traveled to visit the Wind Tunnel, Full-Scale Fire Test Facility, National Airport Pavement Test Facility, Crashworthiness Building, Tower/TRACON Modeling and the Simulation Building.

The group showed real focus in what was being presented and asked many thought provoking questions. Some of the interns intend to contact a few of those who spoke and get further information regarding the research and development discussed.

Maria appears to have found a few "new friends" with the "Crash Charlie" dummies.