Area high school girls tour BP Whiting Refinery as part of STEM Day

BP Whiting Refinery employees Phil Foster, on right, and Dylan Dudley demonstrate a pump system used for training during Girls in STEM Day at the BP Whiting Refinery on Friday, May 17, 2024. A group of area high school girls watched intently as a BP worker showed them instruments that read temperature and pressure at the BP Whiting Refinery.

The women’s network started holding the STEM Day event in 2018, though took a few years off amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Dray said. In the years it has been held, Dray said each year more young girls sign up to participate. After lunch, the girls got to see different refinery instruments, view a refinery safety simulation inside an igloo and try the slip simulator, which workers use to practice safely walking on slick surfaces that they could encounter at the refinery in the winter months, said Nicole Adamopoulos, with the BP Learning Department.

Denise Huerta, a freshman at East Chicago Central High School, said she really enjoyed the event because she enjoys her math classes. Huerta said her career goal is to become a pilot, but she was interested to see the other career options for her in the STEM field.

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