Declining enrollments-a `now´ strategy for the future

The author examines ways that college instructors might be able to reach down to the grade-school level to inspire young students to follow a path to engineering schools and ultimately to the engineering profession. A practical example is given that will demonstrate how one can make that path visible and exciting by providing means by which these youngsters can have measures of success with `hands on´ activity. It is the author´s belief that once these young people become focused on engineering, it will be difficult to keep them out of engineering classrooms of the future