Guitar class an instrument for teaching math, science
There's science in the strings, and Bakersfield College students are spending their summer learning all about it.
A dozen students are each building electric guitars from scratch in a summer workshop while learning about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. And they're personalizing the guitars because at the end of the course, those guitars are theirs to keep.
"We wanted to take science, technology, engineering and math, and make it real for people," said course instructor Steve Hageman. "It's not all about the guitar."
The first-ever, four-week class at BC is made possible through a collaborative grant between Cal State Bakersfield and the college aimed at inspiring students to pursue science careers.
It's led by BC engineering professors Hageman and Klint Rigby, who recently attended a National Science Foundation guitar building workshop and brought the idea back to Bakersfield.
For the "guitar project," students choose their eclectic guitar design, sand them, polish them, wire them and tune them, all while studying what makes them work.
Some of the students are musicians and music majors; some are aspiring engineers and mechanics; and still others are undecided about their career goals.
But they're all excited about building their very own electric guitar.
"This is on my bucket list," said David Caploe, a recent high school graduate and BC student. "Music is definitely a big part of my life."
BC inherited about $15,000 from a CSUB grant to run the summer course. The university last year received a five-year, $2.5 million grant through the U.S. Department of Education used in part to establish CSUB's first four-year engineering degree program (in computer engineering).
College officials hope the class inspires students to transfer to a four-year university like CSUB, seek science and engineering degrees and eventually work in science fields, preferably locally.
"They've brought to our community a really interesting and different way of accessing science and math," said Rageshwar Kaur Goldberg, BC's STEM program manager.
Local businesses are getting involved, too. Representatives of the local Woodworking Specialties have assisted students in the lab. On Tuesday, Ryan Fergon, a technician at the Guitar Center, showed students how to tune their guitars.
He said it's important for people to know "the science behind how things work." The class provides just that, he said.
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