Covestro and Swiss Consulate celebrate Solar Impulse’s NYC arrival with ‘Science Day at JFK’
Hundreds of NYC Students Met Clean-Tech Aviation Pioneers, Toured Plane
On Wednesday, June 15, more than 300 New York City elementary, middle, and high school students joined Covestro and Swiss Consulate representatives at JFK International Airport to welcome the history-making Solar Impulse airplane (Si2) — and the clean-tech pioneers who conceived it — to New York. The plane flew into NYC on Saturday, marking the final U.S. stop in the first solar-powered flight around the world.
“Science Day at JFK” was co-hosted by Covestro as part of its i3 (ignite, imagine, innovate) STEM initiative and the Swiss Consulate, in collaboration with United Nations Environment Programme and the New York City Department of Education.
The event provided a unique educational platform for Solar Impulse co-founders and pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, who shared their scientific adventures firsthand with students from six schools across all five boroughs.