HSLC

My club SHPE (Socierty of Hispanic Engineers) is hosting next weekend our yearly High School Leadership Conference sponsored by Xerox. In this conference we bring around 40 high school students, usually juniors and seniors, to introduce them to PSU and to engineering. We aimed for Latino students that are interested in engineering, but we don't reject anyone so however is interested in coming can come. Normally it is really hard to get Latin students to come because of the perception that their parents have of college students, and being a Latino myself I know how our parents can be with trusting their kids to others. We do two trips to their high school to try to introduce the conference, ourselves and to show the parents that we are trustful and that their kids would be safe with us for the weekend, but is still not that easy to convince all of them.
On the conference we have one main project, which changes every year, but its basically an engineering project that would last for the entire weekend. Students get divided into groups of 6 students and get to win really good prices. Aside from this project they go to several campus tours including the Beaver Stadium Tour, the FAME lab tour, and the Nuclear Reactor tour. These students stay with different members from our club, but only with the ones that live on campus, since they have to be on campus due to PSU policies. We are getting ready to welcome the students for this year, which should be here on March 27th.