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Florida Power & Light Company, Help Engineers Put the Finishing Touches on Handmade Electric Generators

THE WESTSIDE GAZETTE — The program provides opportunities for Miami-Dade County students to advance their Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) skills

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January 14, 2019

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Carma Henry

(l-r) Andrew Arana, Givens Cherilus and Clive Campbell, engineers with Florida Power & Light Company. (Photo by: thewestsidegazette.com)

MIAMI GARDENS, FL –Recently Andrew Arana, Givens Cherilus and Clive Campbell, engineers with Florida Power & Light Company, (FPL) helped budding engineers put the finishing touches on handmade electric generators as part of the SECME generator build event with additional volunteers from FPL’s African-American Professional Employees Group at St. Thomas University.

The program provides opportunities for Miami-Dade County students to advance their Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) skills. More than 100 students took part in the event.

This article originally appeared in The Westside Gazette

Related Topics:African American American Professional Employees Group Andrew Arana engineering florida Florida Power & Light Company FPL Givens Cherilus and Clive Campbell Math miami Miami Gardens Miami-Dade County science Southern East Florida St Thomas University STEM technology

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