Engineering Kits to Peru

We researched, chose, assembled and sent 260 Catapult kits to BYU- Provo. The Global Engineering Outreach class will take these kits, when travel permits, to the elementary schools in the communities where they are installing their other engineering projects.

“¡Qué buena idea!” At the end of the official competitive season, the team approached alum Samuel after hearing about his collegiate aid of elementary students in Peru. After doing further research on the Peruvian economic crisis and its effect on education and children alike, the team knew they needed to do something. Student leader, Emily, took the lead on this project and reached out to BYU professors Terri Bateman and Randy Lewis. Bateman and Lewis have spent the past 20 years teaching Global Engineering. This class finds five engineering projects the community needs, builds them and then travels to Peru to install the projects. For 20 years they have tried to take along smaller Engineering Kits for local schools but this idea never came to fruition. Then came FTC Team 8099.