Students get hands-on experience for STEM week Innovation Challenge [Video]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) – It’s STEM week across the Commonwealth, which is meant to encourage students to do some hands-on experience to give them the ability to see themselves in these opportunities in the future.

On Wednesday morning, dozens of Massachusetts students gathered at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield to do just that.

This was all part of the second annual MassMakes Innovation Challenge.

“We are absolutely thrilled to be able to sort of excite and show students what’s possible in advanced manufacturing and technologies. Everything from advanced functional fabrics to microelectronics and semiconductors,” director of manufacturing education for MassTech collaborative, Adam Couturier told us.

The event was organized by the Center for Advanced Manufacturing At MassTech and had appearances by Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll and education secretary Patrick Tutwiler.

The main goals: to get these students some actual hands-on experience and develop innovative technological skills that could …