Clean sweep for young engineers
Advertiser Staff
All seven of the graduating seniors on the robotics team at an inner-city high school in Phoenix will attend college this year on full scholarships.
For the past three years, every senior in the Science and Technology Club at Carl Hayden Community High School has gone into the military or to college, mostly on scholarship.
The school's team of young engineers, which has grown from a handful of students to 50, gained national attention in 2004 when it beat many prestigious colleges and universities to win an underwater robotics competition sponsored by NASA and the Office of Naval Research.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, The Achiever, June 2006 issue
EDUCATION FACT
About 15 percent of U.S. faculty in colleges and universities were minorities in 2003. The breakdown:
Black: 6 percent of the faculty
Asian/Pacific Islanders: 5 percent
Hispanic: 4 percent
American Indian/Alaska Native: 0.5 percent
About 17 percent of executive, managerial and administrative staffs were minorities in 2003, compared with about 31 percent of the nonprofessional staff.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
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