America’s high-tech future demands that more young people today get excited about science and technology.
Which is the thinking behind a $60,200 grant from the
Motorola Foundation which will allow
Michigan State University to bring in underrepresented students from Lansing and Detroit to participate in a robotics building competition.
MSU’s uG9-12 Robotics Competition-Driven Mentoring Program received Motorola’s Innovation Generation grant, the fourth year the
MSU College of Engineering has received the funding.
The grant will allow MSU to pair 20 first- and second-year engineering undergraduates with high school students in schools with predominantly African American and Hispanic students, as well as an all-girls high school.
“It is a service learning opportunity for our students, and it gets the high school kids excited about a future in engineering,” says Drew Kim, assistant to the dean for recruitment and K-12 outreach in the College of Engineering.
The Motorola Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Motorola.
Source: MSU College of Engineering
Writer: Louise Knott Ahern
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