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09-29-10
Deloitte and College Summit Named Finalists for U.S. Chamber Corporate Citizenship Award in "Partnership" Category
The United States Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) announced that Deloitte and College Summit are finalists for the 2010 Partnership Award, a category...
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09-29-10
BJ's Wholesale Club "Adopts" More Than 190 Schools This Year
BJ's Wholesale Club announces today that through its Adopt-A-School (ADAS) Program they will partner with more than 190 schools in its 15-state footprint to help enhance existing programs and curriculum objectives that best meet the educational needs of children and families...
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09-27-10
AT&T Supports 2010/11 Global Virtual Classroom Program
/PRNewswire/ - AT&T* today announced a $25,000 contribution to support the Global Virtual Classroom (GVC) program - a free online collaborative learning project that fosters teamwork, creativity, cross cultural understanding and teaches IT and website design skills among...
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09-27-10
President Barack Obama to be Featured in NBC Universal's Emmy Award-Winning "The More You Know" Public Service Campaign
President Barack Obama will be featured in NBC Universal's Emmy award-winning "The More You Know" public service campaign with special back-to-school messages about parental responsibility in education. The public service announcements will debut this week, in connection wit...
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09-27-10
Raytheon and the Business-Higher Education Forum Expand Efforts to Improve U.S. STEM Education
/PRNewswire/ - Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) today announced three new activities to help policymakers and educators tackle the challenges associated with improving science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in th...
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09-16-10
IELTS International Offers Free Workshops for ESL Teachers
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - IELTS International is pleased to offer complimentary professional development seminars to ESL teachers in conjunction with various statewide Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conferences this fall. IELTS, a test of English ...
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09-14-10
MIND Research Institute Receives Cisco Foundation Grant to Improve Math Education in Silicon Valley
(Marketwire) - Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) - The non-profit MIND Research Institute (MIND) announced today that the Cisco Foundation is providing a $75,000 grant to ensure that students in Silicon Valley learn mathematics principles that will allow them to be prepared for jobs toda...
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09-13-10
DemandTec Kicks Off Fifth Annual DemandTec Retail Challenge Scholarship Competition
/PRNewswire/ - DemandTec, Inc. (Nasdaq: DMAN) today announced the start of the Fifth Annual DemandTec Retail Challenge, a math and science scholarship competition. High school seniors across the United St...
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09-10-10
Bayer Celebrates 15 Years of Helping Kids Experience the Wonders of Science
Bayer Corporation is celebrating the 15th anniversary of its award-winning Making Science Make Sense® (MSMS) program by saluting its employee volunteers and launching a new series of tools for anyone interested in strengthening STEM (science, technology, engineering...
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09-09-10
CMU Professor Uses Robotics to Help the Poor
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - Bernardine Dias has a big goal; she wants to connect the people of the world using technology - all of the people of the world, especially the poor and the underserved. As a result, this Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Robotics professor, a woman o...
