Saturday, May 3, Neil Hinton, Dean, School of Engineering Technology, spent the day at at the Ross County Thunderbase 2014 Boy Scout event. Thunderbase is a weekend long scouting adventure, bringing Boy Scout programs and activities to one location.
Hinton spent the day with Susan Shearer from Stark State Technical College. Shearer is the Director of the Fuel Cell and Alternative Energy Technology program at Stark State and is the chair of the Great Lakes Fuel Cell Education Partnership of which Hocking College is a member.
Hinton got a chance to interact with 700 boy scouts, their leaders and parents and talk about Fuel Cell technology. He also got to pitch the college's Advanced Energy program and said, "I believe it was a great event to put us forward in this arena." See more about Thunderbase and pictures from the event here.