OKEECHOBEE – The Okeechobee County Board of Commissioners designated Feb. 18-24 as Engineers Week.
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![OKEECHOBEE – The Okeechobee County Board of Commissioners designated Feb. 18-24 as Engineers Week. Left to right are Marcos Montes De Oca, Stef Mathes and Okeechobee County Commission Chair David Hazellief. Founded by NSPE in 1951, Engineers Week is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers. Today, Engineers Week is a formal coalition of more than 70 engineering, education, and cultural societies, and more than 50 corporations and government agencies. Dedicated to raising public awareness of engineers' positive contributions to quality of life, Engineers Week promotes recognition among parents, teachers, and students of the importance of a technical education and a high level of math, science, and technology literacy, and motivates youth, to pursue engineering careers in order to provide a diverse and vigorous engineering workforce. [Photo by Katrina Elsken/Lake Okeechobee News]](/uploads/original/20240222-091305-Engineers Week.jpg)
OKEECHOBEE – The Okeechobee County Board of Commissioners designated Feb. 18-24 as Engineers Week. Left to right are Marcos Montes De Oca, Stef Mathes and Okeechobee County Commission Chair David Hazellief. Founded by NSPE in 1951, Engineers Week is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers. Today, Engineers Week is a formal coalition of more than 70 engineering, education, and cultural societies, and more than 50 corporations and government agencies. Dedicated to raising public awareness of engineers' positive contributions to quality of life, Engineers Week promotes recognition among parents, teachers, and students of the importance of a technical education and a high level of math, science, and technology literacy, and motivates youth, to pursue engineering careers in order to provide a diverse and vigorous engineering workforce.
