X-STEM at Travis

More than 600 eighth grade students from 14 Northern California middle schools listen as Dr. Marcus Eriksen (change out name and title), an environmental scientist, gives a presentation during a Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math event at Travis Air Force Base, California, Feb. 27, 2019. The event titled X-STEM at Travis was the first of its kind on an Air Force installation and featured a ‘TED’ style symposium with four guest speakers from STEM career fields. The event covered a wide array of subject areas such as space exploration, storm chasing, oceanography, the science of social networks, the physics of superheroes and mathematical puzzles. The students also got to see a performance from the Band of the Golden West, have lunch with Airmen mentors and partake in two hours of interactive tours through Travis’ three mobility aircrafts. (U.S. Air Force photo by Heide Couch)