ERIE, Pa. — Jacob O’Sullivan watched as a child cheered on a robot that was navigating a small obstacle course in Penn State Behrend’s Junker Center.
“You can see the light go on in their eyes,” he said. “It’s really great to see kids getting so excited about science.”
O’Sullivan, 22, is a computer engineering major at Penn State Behrend. He expects to graduate in 2021.
He’s also an intern at Wabtec. He helped with one of the company’s exhibits at the sixth annual Penn State Behrend STEAM fair on Feb 10. Nearly 80 companies, clubs and community organizations offered hands-on demonstrations at the event, which promotes science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics learning.
Wabtec and WQLN partnered with Penn State Behrend to sponsor the STEAM fair, which was free and open to the public. More than 1,500 people attended.