Students from Early College Academy build their own rollercoaster track at USC Viterbi’s Biegler Hall of Engineering. PHOTO/JEFFREY VARGAS.
Just two miles from USC’s University Park campus is Los Angeles Trade Technical College, a community college that works with students interested in anything from a career in accounting to one in fashion, nursing or physics. On the same campus are high school students who are part of the Early College Academy, a partnership with LATTC.
A rollercoaster prototype. PHOTO/JEFFREY VARGAS.
Juan Amezcua, a teacher at the academy, visited USC one day, early in the start of the Spring 2022 semester. On the third floor of the Biegler Hall of Engineering (BHE), he found USC Viterbi School of Engineering Laboratory Managers Jeffrey Vargas and Rodney Yates. Perhaps by chance, perhaps by kismet – they three of them went on to plan an event with…
