Ocean City High School Student Completes Governor's School of Engineering and Technology

An Ocean City High School student completed this year’s New Jersey Governor’s School of Engineering and Technology at Rutgers at Rutgers University on Friday.

Nickolas John Eisele was among 88 students invited to participate in this year’s event. Eisele worked on a research project for four weeks before making giving a final presentation Friday afternoon at the University.

This year’s projects included designing lunar structures, creating an innovative robotic hand and fabricating the type of lithographs used to manufacture integrated circuits and microsensors.

Two photos of the project Eisele worked on, provided by the University, are attached to this post.

Eisele worked with Orrin Kigner of Springfield, Rachel Straub of Toms River, Megan Brown of Jackson and Hope Dormer of Bayville to create a model of a robot designed to mine methane on Titan, one of Saturn’s moons.

Eisele also attended classes in subjects such as modern physics, offshore wind harvesting, materials science, robotics and computer programming.

Eisele took field trips to corporate and industrial sites in and around New Jersey, such as a nuclear power plant; a fiber optics firm; and a pharmaceutical research, development and manufacturing site.

More than 90 percent of scholars from previous years’ programs have pursued technical higher education and careers.

The program is funded by Rutgers University, Lockheed Martin, Silverline Windows, Novo Nordisk, South Jersey Industries, New Jersey Resources and the State of New Jersey. It is one of several programs in the Governor’s School of New Jersey, overseen by the state’s Office of the Secretary of Higher Education.