Photo Release -- Northrop Grumman, Los Angeles Kings Light The Lamp For STEM Education During National Engineers Week

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Using Newton's three laws of motion to explain how hockey players are able to quickly stop and pass the puck, shoot a hard-hitting slap shot and make a great save, the Los Angeles Kings and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) encouraged middle school students to take greater interest in science and math during National Engineers Week.

Los Angeles Kings television color commentator Jim Fox skates with a student at Northrop Grumman's "Science of Hockey" event held Feb. 22 during National Engineers Week in El Segundo, Calif. Northrop Grumman engineer T.J. Mathieson, former defenseman for the University of Notre Dame ice hockey team, explains the science behind skates to middle school students during National Engineers Week in El Segundo, Calif., Feb. 22. Northrop Grumman employee Tricia Davis and her husband Michael check out a cangineering structure of the James Webb Space Telescope during National Engineers Week. The model is built almost entirely out of canned food that will be donated to local food banks.

A video clip of this event is available from Northrop Grumman's You Tube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/northropgrummanmedia . Photos are available at http://media.globenewswire.com/noc/mediagallery.html?pkgid=17392 .

The four-day "Science of Hockey" event took place at the reigning Stanley Cup Champion Kings' training facility in El Segundo, Calif., and was led by Northrop Grumman engineer T.J. Mathieson.

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