IEEE TryEngineering is celebrating 20 years of empowering educators with resources that introduce engineering to students at an early age. Launched in 2006 as a collaboration between IEEE, IBM, and the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI), TryEngineering began with a clear goal: Make engineering accessible, understandable, and engaging for students and the teachers who support them. What started as an idea within IEEE Educational Activities has grown into a global platform supporting preuniversity engineering education around the world. ## Concerns about the future In the early 2000s, engineering was largely absent from preuniversity education, typically being taught only in small, isolated programs. Most students had little exposure to the many types of engineering, and they did not learn what engineers actually do. At the same time, industry and academic leaders were increasingly concerned about the future of engineering as a whole.…