New Breakout Box: Environmental Mission Introduces Texas Students to Port-Related Careers

The month, Learning Undefeated debuted a totally new learning experience for The Port of Corpus Christi’s PORT-Able Learning Lab. Tailor-made to emphasize content themes related to maritime careers and the Coastal Bend area, the new Breakout Box: Environmental Mission takes high school students on an immersive adventure using computational thinking and the practices of science and engineering, without even leaving the school parking lot.

Booker T. Washington Students Experience Traveling STEM Lab

Inside this mobile lab, kids were given the chance to build robots, build little houses as part of a souped-up Three Little Pigs story and even building space capsules. Askelson said activities like these can be beneficial for students of all ages.“We want them to know that anyone can be an engineer, and if they want to be an engineer, they can do it — really, they can be anything they want in life; they just have to work really hard at it,” Askelson said.