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National High School Career Academies Focused on Engineering Announced by the National Academy Foundation.
Part of National Effort to Engage Corporations in Transforming America's High Schools
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Academy Foundation (NAF), in collaboration with Project Lead The Way (PLTW) and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), today announced a national education initiative focused on exposing high school students to careers in engineering.
This new initiative will create 13 new Academies of Engineering which will grow to a national network of 110 Academies by 2010. The Academies are being funded by a $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Additional support of $1 million each is being provided by the Motorola Foundation, the Verizon Foundation and Xerox.
"We are very excited to welcome the newest member of the NAF family, our Academies of Engineering. A key focus of the Academies of Engineering will be to increase the participation of women and disenfranchised communities in the study of engineering," said NAF Founder and Chairman Sanford I. (Sandy) Weill. "Together with our Academies of Finance, Information Technology and Hospitality and Tourism, we are educating our future leaders so that the United States can better compete in today's…
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