This scholarship program is intended to support promising high school seniors who intend to pursue a career in an engineering-related field and who live in communities where Electronic Systems is a major presence.

High-technology companies across the nation, like Northrop Grumman, continue to face a critical shortage of specialized engineering personnel we need for our businesses. Through this scholarship effort, we hope to motivate some of the brightest and best students — with a background and interest in math and science — to consider the engineering professions.

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The Nuclear Engineering Division Student Outreach Committee responds to requests from student organizations for speakers on nuclear energy and non-proliferation topics, provides students serving appointments at Argonne with opportunities to learn about the various areas of work in which the division is active, and maintains regular communications with university nuclear engineering programs. Furthermore, the committee has been assembling a set of Web links to educational resources on nuclear energy geared to grade school, junior high, and high school students and their teachers and educators (follow the links “Nuclear Energy Learning Resources for Schools” or “Resources for Schools”).

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BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) is a middle through high school robotics competition whose mission is to inspire students to pursue careers fields. BEST Inc. itself is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization that licenses the annual competition to sites (“hubs”) around the U.S. Twenty-four colleges and universities in addition to 12 independent groups operate BEST hubs in their communities/regions.

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Do you want to introduce your students to engineering? Cal Poly’s College of Engineering Outreach is available to tell and show students what engineering is all about. Our mission is to inspire students to consider an engineering career path through education and inspiration.

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EPIC-Engineering Possibilities in College is a hands-on summer camp for High School Students. Cal Poly faculty and students introduce engineering to high school students through the “Learn-By-Doing” approach that makes Cal Poly successful. The 2009 EPIC program is July 6-10 at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

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