GREENSBORO - Fifteen high school students are participating in North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University's 2002 Summer High School Transportation Institute. The Institute will begin July 1 and end August 2.
Students from Greensboro participating in the program are Shenese Baldwin, Southern Guilford High School; Erica Bouttry, Dudley High School; Kimberly Brown, Smith High School; Luvie Green, Southern Guilford High School; Lydia Harp, Ragsdale High School; Arnitra Harris, Dudley High School; Joy Johnson, Grimsley High School; Shawndra King, Northeast High School; Shoska Manson, Dudley High School; Tyrell Morris, Smith High School; Sirena Redfern, Grimsley High School; and Candace Smith, Southern Guilford High School.

Other students are Jonathan Allred, Southeast High School, Pleasant Garden, N.C.; Cathy Pope, Rocky Mount Senior High School, Rocky Mount, N.C.; and Lawrence Wilson, Terry Sanford High School, Fayetteville, N.C.

The Summer High School Transportation Institute is a unique, non-residential program designed to create an awareness of the career and academic choices and opportunities existing within the transportation industry.

During the course of the five-week program, the students will be involved in many activities. They will take the African American Heritage Tour and participate in a civil engineering bridge building competition. The students will travel to Washington, D.C., where they will visit the U.S. Coast Guard Yard, the Maritime Vessel "Cape Wrath," and the National Air and Space Museum. They will also travel multi-modally to the Baltimore Harbor and visit the National Aquarium. Additionally, they will attend workshops, lectures, presentations, etc.

The participants will receive a weekly stipend and take a college level course, which is tuition-free. Credit received from the course can be "banked" toward future enrollment at A&T.

Funding for the Institute is provided by the Federal Highway Administration (through a grant with South Carolina State University), the North Carolina Department of Transportation, the Southeastern Transportation Center, the Urban Transit Institute, The Dow Chemical Company, and the Transportation Institute of A&T's School of Business and Economics.

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