An airport staff member for Torrance City said the city hosted a STEM outreach event at the municipal airport to give students a look at the real-world application of science, technology, engineering and math.

"We use the actual application of science, technology, engineering, and math at the airport to show them here's what you students are studying. I think 1 of the biggest things is this partnership with Robinson, and this year getting to take a factory tour for our students. I think that's invaluable just to see what a true factory floor looks like. This airport is for everybody. This airport is for the entire community, and especially our students," the airport staff member said.

The staff member said the partnership with Robinson included a factory tour intended to expose students to aircraft manufacturing and aviation careers. "We're really excited to have them here on our airport today to learn as much as they can about aviation, Robinson helicopter, how to become a pilot or a future AMP mechanic," the staff member added.

An event presenter described the program as an aspirational introduction to career paths in aerospace. "The STEM event is a really good aspirational program, essentially opening the eyes to a student and saying, listen, you know, there's a whole world out there. Hopefully gonna be an aerospace engineer. That's what I put my majors in for. Gotta see where they manufacture all their parts, how they label it, how they categorize everything, the start of the helicopter, it's the end of the helicopter and their stages. It's really cool," the presenter said.

City staff framed the event as part of outreach to encourage interest in aviation-related trades and engineering among students; no formal actions, funding amounts or dates were specified during the remarks.

The remarks occurred during an airport-hosted outreach event; the transcript did not identify individual speakers by name or provide further administrative details about the partnership or any follow-up actions.