ASTORIA—Youth on the Selection Boys & Ladies Membership of Queens yesterday joined a mentoring session on drone expertise and inexperienced power jobs led by representatives of the New York Energy Authority (NYPA), Con Edison and renewable power firm 174 Energy International. Final week, NYPA launched the scholars to the unmanned plane programs used to watch and keep its utility infrastructure and taught them to fly classroom-friendly drones. At this week’s mentoring occasion, college students showcased their new abilities working drones and had an opportunity to speak with a number of NYPA drone pilots and different power professionals.
“As New York State strikes nearer to attaining its clear power targets, our younger individuals will discover new and rewarding job alternatives in rising clear power industries,” mentioned Justin E. Driscoll, NYPA’s president and CEO. “The Energy Authority’s annual collaboration with Con Ed and 174 Energy International goals to present youngsters a leg up on the profession ladder by exposing them to totally different disciplines by means of hands-on actions like flying drones!”
Greater than 60 college students engaged within the mentoring expertise, asking questions of the consultants in attendance. The annual youth Science, Expertise, Engineering and Math (STEM) and mentorship program follows comparable occasions hosted in prior years that target studying about careers in rising expertise inside the utility business.
Costa Constantinides, chief govt officer of the Selection Boys and Ladies Membership, mentioned, “Having group companions just like the New York Energy Authority, Con Edison and 174 Energy International, our youngsters have entry and help within the programming that we offer each day to permit them to develop into the subsequent scientist, astrophysicist, technologist or something they need to be. These companions have continued to work with us for over three years now and we look ahead to persevering with our work with them, for our youngsters for a really very long time.”
College students can have quite a lot of alternatives to work in STEM fields as demand for jobs in these industries continues to develop. The mentors hoped to encourage college students to pursue science and technology-related jobs by sharing their private experiences.
STEM programming and mentorship have particular significance to Western Queens, the place a big proportion of New York Metropolis’s energy has traditionally been generated. The profession and mentorship program, a part of NYPA’s environmental justice efforts, helps an under-resourced group positioned close to the event of the 100-megawatt East River Vitality Storage Mission.
174 Energy International was chosen by Con Edison to develop the clear power undertaking on property owned by NYPA that after housed the former Charles Poletti energy plant. The East River Storage Mission can have an power contract with Con Edison and be the biggest power storage system in NYC.
Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. mentioned, “It’s necessary we educate our youngsters the talents they will use sooner or later as they develop towards booming clear power and aviation jobs of tomorrow, and that’s what this program did for the children of the Selection Boys and Ladies Membership of Queens. I thank the New York Energy Authority, Con Edison and 174 Energy International for giving our youngsters the talents they are going to undoubtedly use as they pursue careers in STEM.”
Richard David, Con Edison’s director of Regional and Group Affairs in Queens, mentioned, “It’s heartening to see younger individuals enthused in regards to the wonders of expertise as they look ahead to STEM careers and making use of their data to make our world higher. We’ll want their experience and various backgrounds to satisfy the various challenges we face, together with a simply transition to wash power in order that we will proceed to inhabit a protected, sustainable planet for generations to return.”
Shane Kim, chief govt officer of 174 Energy International, mentioned, “With the help of NYPA, Con Edison, and our companions just like the Selection Boys & Ladies Membership, we’re prepared and desirous to put money into one of many largest power storage initiatives in New York Metropolis. As we work to reinvent power that may create resiliency, we additionally need to work with college students who will assist to energy the power transition by speaking the talents and capabilities wanted for these new jobs in Astoria, offering an financial increase to the area.”
Kaela Mainsah, vice chairman of NYPA’s Environmental Justice program, mentioned, “This partnership with the Selection Boys & Ladies Membership is about making STEM studying enjoyable and fascinating, serving to to construct the dynamic and various future workforce that shall be wanted to satisfy New York State’s bold clear power targets. By connecting power professionals who’ve fascinating and significant jobs that contain technical and scientific abilities, we hope the scholars shall be impressed to decide on a profession pathway in a STEM subject. Some college students could even be taught that their interest of flying or constructing drones might result in a life-long power profession.”
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Concerning the Selection Boys & Ladies Membership of Queens
The Selection Boys & Ladies Membership of Queens serves over 4,000 younger individuals every year, and the power is open to the group 7 days every week. The house contains an indoor swimming pool, makerspace lab, pc room, educating kitchen, gymnasium, auditorium, artwork studio, dance studio, movie studio, and outside playground. Programming serves all youngsters (ages 6-18) together with homework assist, swimming and sports activities, coding, engineering, connoisseur cooking, drama, dance, media manufacturing and a lot extra.
About NYPA
NYPA is the biggest state public energy group within the nation, working 16 producing services and greater than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission traces. Greater than 80 p.c of the electrical energy NYPA produces is clear renewable hydropower. NYPA funds its operations by means of the sale of bonds and revenues earned largely by means of gross sales of electrical energy. For extra data go to www.nypa.gov and observe us on Twitter, Fb, Instagram, Tumblr and LinkedIn.
About Con Edison
Con Edison is a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc. [NYSE: ED], one of many nation’s largest investor-owned power firms, with roughly $14 billion in annual revenues and $65 billion in property. The utility delivers electrical energy, pure gasoline and steam to three.4 million prospects in New York Metropolis and Westchester County, N.Y. For monetary, operations and customer support data, go to www.conEd.com.
About 174 Energy International
174 Energy International is a number one photo voltaic and power storage firm that’s wholly owned by the Hanwha Group. With deep experience throughout the complete spectrum of the undertaking improvement cycle, 174 Energy International works carefully with utilities, landowners, native communities, monetary buyers, and different companions to construct extremely productive, utility scale and C&I solar energy crops all through North America. Since its formation in 2017, 174 Energy International has signed almost 2 gigawatts (GW) of energy buy agreements and has greater than 6 GW of extra initiatives within the improvement pipeline. 174 Energy International’s title was impressed by the 174 petawatts (PW) of energy the earth receives from the solar at any second. For extra data, go to: www.174powerglobal.com/