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The society offers a variety of NSBE and Corporate-sponsored scholarship and award opportunities to our pre-college, collegiate undergraduate and graduate student, and technical professional members. Our scholarship packages range in value from $500 to $6,500. Don't miss out on this NSBE access only opportunity! For more details on the available scholarships and awards, please visit the Scholarship Repository for more information.

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GTA Applications GTA Applications

The Golden Torch Awards (GTA) recognizes excellence among technical professionals, corporate, government and academic leaders, and university and pre-college students. These awards illustrate the possibilities that can be cultivated through support and responsibility. The proceeds of GTA are used to create college scholarships for gifted high school students. Nominations for the 16th Annual National Society of Black Engineers Golden Torch Awards are now open.  Click here to apply.  For FAQs about the applications process click here.

Click more for a list of the 15th Annual National Society of Black Engineers Golden Torch Award Honorees. 

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Step up to Leadership! Step up to Leadership!

Take the next step up to leadership! Apply for the vacant positions on the National Executive Board! Be a part of the board of directors of the National Society of Black Engineers - expand your network, mix and mingle with high ranking officials, make a difference in NSBE! Applications are due April 15th so apply TODAY!

Vacant postions are: Chair Emeritus, Treasurer, Treasurer Emeritus, Financial Controller, Assistant Treasurer of Special Projects, Communications Chair, Publications Chair, Parlimentarian, Finance Chair, NLI Chair, PCI Chair, Business Diversity Chair.

To apply click here

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National Leadership Conference National Leadership Conference

It is that time of year again! The 2012 National Leadership Conference (NLC) is to be held June 6th - 10th in New London, CT. The theme of NLC and the Regional Leadership Conferences (RLC) is Leadership: A Catalyst for Positive Change.

NLC is NSBE's premier training program for national and regional officers. Participants receive training in such areas as budgeting, expense management, public relations, and funds solicitation. They will also learn soft skills such as effective communication, teamwork and conflict resolution.
 
To register click here.
 

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Message From Your Chair Message From Your Chair

"It was only a number of years ago that I was considering dropping out of college because of poor grades. Sometimes I think back. What if I never joined NSBE? What if I didn’t have mentors to push me? What if I gave up? It’s simple; I wouldn’t be where I am today. I wouldn’t be a college graduate nearing the completion of my second degree. I wouldn’t be in the Operations Leadership Program at UTC. I wouldn’t be National Chair of the National Society of Black Engineers. I wouldn’t be the “Cal” that members are now proud to call “Chairman”. "

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Renew Your Membership! Renew Your Membership!

NSBE Family,

It is that time of year again! Be sure to renew your membership with NSBE! Keep forgetting year after year? We now have a automatic renewal feature in IMPak! Be sure to remind your fellow members to renew and/or join NSBE! Don't miss out on all our membership benefits - for a list of benefits click here.

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Pre-College Initiative Program of the Year


Center for Youth in Engineering and Science (YES Center),
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Beverly Johnson, Executive Director, YES Center


Excitement filled the air on the campus of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, as middle and high school students prepared their robots for the annual Botball Competition. The competition is hosted each year by the Youth in Engineering and Science (YES) Center and the NYU-Poly NSBE Chapter. All of the participating teams of students were scrambling frantically to assemble their robots using the fundamentals of programming they learned beforehand.

“We didn’t mention the M-word right away,” says Beverly Johnson, who serves as the associate dean of undergraduate admissions at NYU-Poly, executive director of the YES Center and advisor for the NYU-Poly NSBE Chapter. “Before we mention the M-word, for math, we let them go experiment and work on the robots and then we tell them that the way they were thinking is related to a math formula.”

NYU-Poly’s YES Center, along with the college’s NSBE Chapter, host and fund a Botball competition annually. This is the first of many strategies designed to introduce New York City children to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs.

YES developed from a program initially involving Brooklyn Technical High School and the Pratt Institute. The success of the original high school-oriented program grew into a city-wide effort that now include programs geared toward elementary, middle and high school students. In addition to having a mathematics prep course, the YES Center also offers a series of college preview programs in which high school students come on campus and take college courses. The charge for these courses is set at $200 per class — far below the standard cost of $4,000.

“We have junior high school students taking college courses in this program now,” Johnson says. “They walk away with a year’s worth of course credit. So instead of paying for four years of college wherever they may go, their parents only pay for three.”

 

Roger Witherspoon is a journalist and author based in New York.