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Community Relations. 06.12.09. Commitment to Education. The quality of education ranks as a high personal priority for IBM employees around the world Make a difference – IBM’s goal is to support the most effective education that will produce the highest level of student achievement. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Community Relations
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06.12.09
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Commitment to Education
• The quality of education ranks as a high personal priority for IBM employees around the world
• Make a difference – IBM’s goal is to support the most effective education that will produce the highest level of student achievement
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Employees’ empowerment
• IBM employees support organizations in the communities in which they live and work
• IBM supports employees who volunteer their personal time to community projects
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Volunteering activities empower employees by
• Making them feel better and prouder of their working place
• Giving them the opportunity to express themselves in other areas
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Community Relations
• Short-term projects• focused endeavors of individual and
anonymous contribution to lower income families
• Long-term projects• Use our most valuable resources – our
researchers, staff, and facilities – to offer advanced opportunities in education
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University of Haifa
3rd year of activity Dynamic program to
suit the needs of the individual students
Employees are coaching students living in the university dormitories
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2009 e- Week events
• Encourage school students to pursue studies in technology and science
• 1,252 of middle school students heard presentations by IBM scientists about the engineering profession• In several large-scale events on IBM premises
• 87 volunteers participated in the program
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Youth education
The main focus of our long-term community relations effort is our youth education project (2003-2009)
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Example I – “Lady Tech”
A new program that partners college students from Israel’s Holon Institute of Technology with local high school girls
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Example II - E.X.I.T.E summer campThe EXITE (EXploring Interests in Technology and Engineering) camps are week-long, summer day camps for girls• Showcase career opportunities in technology and engineering• Introduce to female role models • Give hands-on experiences in technical activities that are fun, challenging
and educational• Encourage diversity
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Example III - TechnodaTook part in the “Young Inventors Competition” in the Technoda, by presenting innovative technologies developed in our labs: Car Simulation , Social networking, XBOX and Playstation3
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…and instead of presenting more
examples lets hear some testimonials …