High school students from NYIT’s Career Discovery Camp toured the space shuttle Enterprise on July 19 at the USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.

NYIT’s Career Discovery Camp gave nine high school students a chance to interact with history on July 19 as the USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City unveiled its exhibition area for the space shuttle Enterprise.

Completed in 1976, the 122-foot Enterprise was the first space shuttle orbiter constructed by NASA and designed to perform test flights within the atmosphere in the late 1970s. After being stored in the Smithsonian for nearly three decades, the vessel was transported to the Intrepid in spring 2012.

The students attended an opening ceremony that included representatives from the Intrepid Museum, NASA administrator Charles Bolden, and Enterprise astronauts Joe Engle, Richard Truly, and Fred Haise. Once inside the new domed pavilion, the campers learned the impact of engineering and technology on the shuttle. Videos and photos displayed the 30-year history of NASA’s space shuttle program and visitors were permitted to walk around the shuttle and look inside crew cabin windows. Following the tour, the students returned to NYIT’s Manhattan campus for a luncheon featuring technology evangelist Ramon Ray (B.S. ’07), who spoke about the crucial roles engineers play in the 21st century.

NYIT’s Career Discovery Camp in Technology and Engineering invites high school students from around the world to the university’s Manhattan campus to promote STEM—science, technology, engineering, and math—disciplines. Workshops included video game design, robotics, electronic music composition, and field trips to Verizon’s New York City offi ces as well as a technical tour of Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center.

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