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The Roper Mountain Science Center (RMSC) is dedicated to opening the minds of students to science. Its efforts were recognized recently with a visit from Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO of GE, who presented a $100,000 grant from the GE Foundation to further the Center�s work with tomorrow�s scientific explorers.
�It is vital that we encourage more young people to consider science and engineering careers, and GE is pleased to support the excellent job that the Roper Mountain Science Center is doing,� said Immelt, who visited RMSC ahead of the GE shareowners� meeting on Wednesday, April 25, at the Carolina First Center. Jeffery Immelt visits RMSCDuring his visit to RMSC, Immelt toured the facility�s new ecology freshwater and marine biology labs, where students have hands-on experiences working with the organisms and animals living in those environments. He also visited labs to interact with students and hear about their experiments and engineering projects. GE has a long tradition of working with RMSC, as many GE volunteers have been involved in various science and engineering activities there. During Immelt�s visit, some of the past GE Volunteers� Student Design Challenge activities were demonstrated, including high school students creating wind turbine rotors and smash-resisting devices made from ordinary household materials. Jeffery Immelt visits RMSCAfter then viewing the capabilities of robots created by students from League Academy who competed in the FIRST Lego League Robotics program, Immelt talked with several other students about their Greenville County School District Science Fair projects. One of the students was six-grader Chris Bresette, who designed an experiment to test the efficiency of different wind turbine blade designs. After placing first in the elementary school science fair with this project, Bresette was invited to GE Energy�s site in Greenville to demonstrate his designs to GE�s wind turbine engineers and discuss design techniques with them. Bresette was also given a tour of GE�s wind turbine manufacturing operations and at the conclusion of the tour was shown a completed wind turbine unit with a plaque dedicating that turbine to him. Bresette�s turbine is in operation on a wind farm in Clinton, NY. Jeffery Immelt visits RMSCThe GE Foundation, the philanthropic organization of the General Electric Company, works to strengthen education access, equity, and quality for disadvantaged youth globally; and supports GE employee and retiree giving and involvement in GE communities around the world. For more information, visit http://www.gefoundation.com. (Images provided by Greenville County Schools.)
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