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Nearly 50 female students from the Dallas Independent School District
were honored by TI's Women of TI Fund and Tech Smart Big Heart.
The event, held at the Women's Museum,
recognized the students and their teachers for participating in an
advanced placement physics camp designed especially for girls. |
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Placement Incentive Program | Infinity
| Destination: Graduation | Algebra
Initiative | Visioneering | HiTECCC
| Women of TI Fund | Executive
Coaching Program | Teachers Teaching with Technology
(T3) | Rising Star | Mentoring
TI has been involved in educational initiatives for many
decades. Not only has the company developed its own programs,
it has been active on both state and national levels in writing
and driving legislation that improves education.
Advanced Placement Incentive Program
The AP Incentive program is designed to encourage students
to take more rigorous college-level course work in high school,
which TI believes prepares them for high-tech careers. The
program offers incentives for both teachers and students and
helps defray associated expenses.
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Infinity
Created by Texas Instruments and Southern Methodist University's
School of Engineering, the Infinity Project is the first in
the country to help school districts incorporate state-of-the
art engineering and advanced technology into the high school
classroom. The program makes math and science more relevant
by teaching with real-world devices such as MP3 players and
digital cameras instead of textbooks. It is designed to encourage
high school students to choose science and math to prepare
for high-tech careers. Currently, students in nearly 160 schools
in 25 states and the District of Columbia participate in the
Infinity Project.
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Destination: Graduation
Texas Instruments has partnered with the United Way of Metropolitan
Dallas to improve graduation rates among Dallas County students.
The program targets high school students in the ninth grade
using college preparation, interactive parental involvement
classes and one-on-one mentoring programs to educate students
and parents on the long-term benefits of a high school diploma.
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Algebra Initiative
TI has helped create a project to improve students’
skills in algebra, which is one of the early hurdles toward
math competence. The Algebra Initiative is designed to dramatically
improve algebra skills among students at a Dallas high school
and the schools that feed into it. The program is modeled
after TI’s successes in early childhood education projects
that focused not just on one grade but on all the students
in the attendance zone.
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Visioneering
TI annually sponsors this unique event that brings together
middle school students, working engineers and innovators to
explore the ways that engineering makes a difference in the
world around us. More than 500 students attend the annual event
on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas to experience
real-world engineering and applications.
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HiTECCC
Created in 2004, HiTECCC stands for High-Technology Education
Coalition of Collin County and is a unique collaborative that
includes a local school district, community college, university
and regional industry partners. The mission of the coalition
is focused on the promotion of a high-quality science, technology,
engineering and math education for North Texas students. Texas
Instruments is a founder of the organization.
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Women of TI Fund
In 2000, a group of senior TI female executives decided to
pool their resources instead of making individual contributions
and formed the Women of TI Fund. Its mission is to expand
math, science and technology education for girls in the Dallas
area. They have three areas of focus: counselor and teacher
education and awareness; gender neutral teacher training;
and programs to increase enrollment and passing rates of female
students in Advanced Placement courses.
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Executive Coaching Program
In this unique effort, TI executives provide mentoring
to principals at various campuses. Based on the premise that
a school is really a business - in the business of educating
students - TI managers spend one-on-one time with principals
to help them understand the Total Quality Management approach
to running a company. More than 20 corporations have embraced
this model and have their executives in mentor relationships.
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Teachers Teaching with Technology (T3)
Sponsored by TI's education technology business, this endeavor
was founded on the principle of teachers teaching other teachers.
The program includes more than 20 unique week-long institutes
in which more than 40,000 teachers from all levels learn more
about the latest methods in teaching math and science.
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Rising Star
A $1.5 million donation that allows any student in the top
40 percent of his or her class from high schools in Dallas
County to attend any Dallas County Community College. Rising
Star scholarships go to students who might not otherwise be
able to afford college and include tuition, fees and books
for the two-year degree.
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Mentoring
TI employees make an incredible difference in the lives
of many young students by serving as role models and mentors.
TI has active mentoring relationships with numerous elementary
schools in its plant site communities. Through the efforts
of our employees, these schools have shown marked improvements
across the board in test scores, attendance and student capabilities.
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Students in an Advanced Placement summer camp meet with their female mentors who advise them on careers in engineering.
Students in Infinity Project, created by Texas Instruments and SMU,
show off their real-world experience in digital signal processing
design. Formerly only available to post graduate students, the class
is designed for high school students to learn the technology of the
Internet age. |
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