| Pre-Kindergarten through
6th grade | Junior High and High Schools
| Colleges and Universities
At Texas Instruments, education is our highest priority for
corporate philanthropy and volunteerism. There’s a good reason
for that. We believe educational excellence is a national imperative
– a critical building block for American’s economic vitality
and for the quality of life in our communities. With the availability
of a highly educated workforce, our individual visions and aspirations
will be realized.
TI’s vision in education is broad-based. Particularly in preschool
and K-12 education, we look to create opportunities for fundamental
change by developing programs that can be replicated elsewhere.
We’re placing more emphasis than ever before on core areas,
such as math and science, to help foster our next generation
of high-tech workers. And we’re also expanding our focus on
educational opportunities for women and minorities in order
to increase their representation in technical fields.
We’re convinced that we need strong research universities in
this country – to develop new technologies and the next-generation
of business leaders. TI is committed to developing our future
work force and is using innovative methods to support the higher
education of tomorrow's engineers.
A few of the programs initiated or supported by TI and the
TI Foundation include:
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Pre-Kindergarten through 6th grade
- Model preschool programs - designed to give students from
economically disadvantaged communities an equal chance to
succeed in the classroom, and partnership programs with feeder
schools to guarantee continuous and coordinated learning
- Executive Principal Coaching Program - where TI executives
work with principals on school leadership through a Total
Quality Management approach, started as a model program at
Hotchkiss and Frazier Elementary schools in Dallas, now adopted
by more than 18 corporations
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Junior High and High Schools
- Dallas Achieves – a partnership with Dallas ISD to create
alignment to prepare students for college and the workforce
- The
Infinity Project - brings college-level course work and
teacher training into the high school giving students hands-on
exposure to the fun of engineering and technology
- Teachers Teaching with Technology - T3 - an innovative
technology and extensive teacher training to revolutionize
the way mathematics and science are taught in secondary schools
- Advanced Placement (AP) Incentive Program - a program that
encourages students to take more rigorous college-level course
work in high school and incentivizes both teachers and students
for their successes
- Math Forward – an innovate program to close the math achievement
gap between lower and higher performing ethnic groups
- Rising Star scholarships - to guarantee a two-year education
to any Dallas County student in the top 40% of their high-school
class with a financial need
- Visioneering – a one-day event for middle school children
where they work hand in hand with engineers to solve a problem
and learn the marvels of engineering
- Women’s Foundation programs - which provide funding to increase
math and science participation among girls
- Texas BEST - a statewide robotics competition promoting
creative thinking, problem solving, math and science and team
building, where students compete with custom-designed robots
using a specific list of materials
- TI India Foundation – scholarships to send impoverished
children to primary school through its Early Birds Scholarship
Program
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Colleges and Universities
- A $2 million donation to the Texas Workforce Development
Grant Program in support of this unique state/industry/university
collaboration designed to increase the number of engineering
and computer science graduates from Texas colleges and universities.
- University partnerships - where investments are made in
numerous colleges and universities to improve electrical engineering
programs, especially in the areas of digital signal processing
and analog. Partner schools can be found in every major region
of the world as well as 36 states in the U.S. including major
nationally recognized engineering programs such as Georgia
Tech, MIT, Stanford and University of Illinois. TI also has
long-standing ties to top-notch Texas programs including Prairie
View A&M, Rice, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and University
of Texas at Dallas and University of Texas at El Paso
- Grants to build new engineering building for the University
of Houston System and Southern Methodist University that are
providing educational opportunities for students to work on
the most advanced equipment and technologies
- Support to more than 1600 universities around the world
with grants, equipment, expertise and scholarships
- Co-op and internship partnerships with community colleges
and universities that help students gain work experience and
provide needed financial support
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