Silicon Valley Tech Giants Team Up
with Greene Scholars Program
To Judge Science Fair In Search of Next Generation
STEM Leaders and Entrepreneurs of African Ancestry
At Cypress Semiconductor | January 26, 2013
SILICON VALLEY, CA--Kicking
off Black History Month, several Silicon Valley high-technology
companies will dispatch senior-level managers, engineers, HR
personnel and public relations teams to judge the eleventh annual
Dr. Frank S. Greene Scholars Program Science Fair in search of the
next generation of African American STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)-focused scholars.
Among the companies to send
representatives to review and evaluate the projects are IBM
Corporation, Oracle Corp., Applied Materials, Inc., Google Inc., and
NASA-Ames Research Center, along with National Hispanic University
and Stanford University. The fair will
be held Saturday, January 26, 2013 at Cypress Semiconductor
headquarters-198 Champion Court, San Jose, California. The public is
invited to view the projects from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00
p.m.
The Dr. Frank S. Greene Scholars Program
Science Fair provides an opportunity for 3rd to 12th-grade students
to apply the scientific method to conduct independent research
for science and/or
technology-based projects,
and report findings.
Greene Scholars Program (GSP) is designed to identify and encourage
African American STEM college majors and graduates through exposure,
experimentation and networking. This year the fair will showcase
projects from more than 80 Bay Area students.
Debra Watkins, founder of
the Greene Scholars Program and California Alliance of African
American Educators (CAAAE) stated, "The CAAAE established the Dr.
Frank S. Greene Scholars Program eleven years ago to increase the
success rate of students of African ancestry who major
in STEM course work,
and to increase the number of students who choose careers in
science, technology, engineering, and math fields. Nearly 28 percent
of our Scholars graduate from college within four years with
STEM-concentrated degrees. That is nearly three times the national
average for African American students." Watkins concluded, "It is
always thrilling to see dozens of our students enthusiastically
engaged in presentations about their science fair projects and to
realize that the spark generated there might lead to some future
scientists!"
About the Greene Scholars Program Science Fair:
Strict adherence to scientific methodology and experimental design
is required for all projects. Each scholar is required to perform
experiments and/or comparative product testing with variables; no
demonstration or pure research projects are accepted. Scholars
explore numerous periodicals, library books, journals, Internet
sources and industry professionals in order to gain a clear and
in-depth understanding of the chosen experiment and must provide
bibliography references. Scholars are required to create a project
abstract, research plan and tri-fold science fair board to
effectively communicate their findings to a panel of judges who
possess STEM and other professional backgrounds.
For additional information about the Greene Scholars Program and its
science fair, please visit
www.greenescholars.org.
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