Engineers from Unocal's Gulf Coast Region recently taught a group of students from Cypress Springs High School about the oil and gas industry through a classroom presentation and field trip to the Ocean Star drilling rig and museum in Galveston. This opportunity was offered by Unocal to the school with the most students participating in the Society of Petroleum Engineers – Gulf Coast Section (SPE-GCS) high school recruiting fairs that were held in the Houston area last November.
Samuel Saenz, a physics/astronomy teacher at Cypress Springs, convinced a large portion of his junior and senior students to attend the fairs and thereby won the contest. More than 50 students and two teachers from Cypress Springs were shown a Magic Suitcase presentation before taking a chartered bus to Galveston to tour the Ocean Star, a former oil rig that has been converted to a drilling museum.
SPE–GCS is one of Houston’s largest professional organizations with more than 11,000 members. Its annual recruiting fairs are designed to educate and interest students in petroleum engineering. They also provide scholarship information and tips on writing successful scholarship applications. In the last three years alone, SPE—GCS has distributed more than $250,000 in scholarships to deserving students in the 29-county Texas Gulf Coast area.
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