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Friday, March 13, 2009
Tech Citizenship
Local techs lending a hand
By Mass High Tech staff
MHT's Galen Moore: Charities score with online fundraising
FIRST Robotics team tests ball-carrying robot
MHT managing editor Rodney Brown on NECN: 22 tech companies give back to community
Raytheon donates tech center at Disney World
Raytheon Co. (NYSE: RTN) has donated the Family Technology Center at Shades of Green in the Walt Disney World Resort. Shades of Green is a U.S. Armed Forces Recreation Center used exclusively by active and retired military personnel and their families and Department of Defense civilians.
The Family Technology Center will serve as guests’ “home away from home” game room. The center, equipped with couches, plasma televisions, personal computers and video game systems, offers guests an on-site extension of their entertainment experience where they can relax, connect and enjoy each other.
Raytheon also recently announced plans to unveil an interactive, math-based experience called “The Sum of All Thrills” in the Innoventions pavilion at Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The exhibit, set to open this fall, will engage children through a fun, interactive and educational experience that helps instill a lifelong passion for math, science and technology.
UTC gives $17K for Conn. FIRST robotics teams
United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) has granted $17,000 multi-year scholarships to three Connecticut high schools participating in the FIRST National Robotics Competition. Nonnewaug High School in Woodbury, Westhill High School in Stamford, and Kent School in Kent, each received the grants in support of their competition activities, beginning at the 2009 FIRST Connecticut Regional competition. The scholarships will defray equipment, travel and other competition-related expenses. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a New Hampshire-based high school robotics tournament organization where teams of students work with teachers and engineering mentors to complete a major technical design challenge. UTC has contributed nearly $3 million to FIRST since 1995. Earlier this year, UTC announced it will provide a scholarship for an “all girls” team to compete in FIRST in 2010, in partnership with the Connecticut Technology Council.
Motorola links UMass Lowell grad students with area high schools
Motorola Inc.’s charitable outreach, The Motorola Foundation, recently gave a $50,000 grant to the University of Massachusetts Lowell program Vibes and Waves in Action. The program is one of 92 around the nation that received a Motorola Foundation Innovation Generation Grant. Vibes and Waves in Action is a program designed to build a research and learning network between UMass Lowell graduate students in engineering, sciences and education and students and teachers at Lawrence and Lowell high schools.
The grant will be used to support the program and the development of interactive laboratory and computer experiments in audio and radio communications. The experiments will be implemented in the high schools by UMass Lowell graduate students.
Tech Collective taking apps for Doug Schwinn scholarships
Tech Collective is now accepting applications for two Doug Schwinn-Tech Collective Scholarship awards. The scholarships will be awarded at $1,000 each to female or minority high school students entering IT or computer science studies.
Doug Schwinn is the former CIO of Hasbro Inc. and the treasurer of Tech Collective’s board of directors. Applications for the scholarship must be submitted by March 30, 2009, with awards to be announced in May or June and distributed for fall 2009 semesters. Applicants must be legal Rhode Island residents and attending a Rhode Island college or university.
N.H. High Tech Council taking apps for Kocher scholarships
The New Hampshire High Technology Council is accepting applications for Kocher Technology Scholarships, online at www.nhhtc.org. The NHHTC will be awarding four $2,000-per-year scholarships annually to students who are dependents of an employee of one of NHHTC’s 220 member companies, studying in a two- or four-year program at a New Hampshire college or university, and working toward a degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.
Students are eligible for scholarships for up to four years. Students in their junior or senior year should have completed an internship with a New Hampshire company to be highly rated for an award. Awardees will be honored at the NHHTC Entrepreneur of the Year dinner at the Center of New Hampshire on May 4.
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