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September 19, 2023
‘It’s a fantastic space’: RIT K-12 University Center heads downtown
WHEC-TV talks to Donna Burnette, executive director of RIT K-12 University Center, about the center's move to downtown Rochester.
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September 15, 2023
Ribbon cutting celebrates K-12 University Center’s move to downtown Rochester
On Wednesday morning, RIT President David Munson, K-12 University Center Executive Director Donna Burnette, and Rochester Mayor Malik Evans cut the ribbon in front of the K-12 University Center’s new home at 40 Franklin St., in the heart of downtown Rochester. This move from RIT’s Henrietta campus to the city will allow the center to greatly expand the connections it has already forged with the Rochester community.
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September 13, 2023
RIT’s K-12 University Center at the ‘heart of the community’
The K-12 University Center's move off campus and into downtown Rochester was made to expand room for more work within the facility as the department develops additional partnerships and programs. It was previously housed at a modular unit adjacent to Brown Hall that has since been demolished to make space for a new science research center.
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August 31, 2023
Margaret’s House organizes reading event to celebrate diversity, promote family-friendly activities on campus to foster ‘more vibrant RIT community’
Just like fingerprints, everyone is different. It’s one of the messages in “Happy in our Skin,” a picture book about the beauty and uniqueness of differences in everyone, and something similar that Margaret's House Director Jennifer Tills hopes to showcase during an event the childcare center is hosting to help connect families within the Rochester Institute of Technology community.
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August 5, 2023
Camp that aimed to bridge digital divide touted by local officials
Rochester Business Journal reports that more than 50 underrepresented public and charter school students in grades third through sixth participated in the inaugural AT&T ROC Jr. Game Dev Camp Powered by RIT.
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August 4, 2023
Camp Tiger offers free, interactive STEM experiences in collaboration with Army Educational Outreach Program
Thanks to a grant awarded before the pandemic to RIT’s K-12 University Center by the Army Educational Outreach Program, it allowed funds to go toward free, hands-on STEM experiences for middle and high school students this summer through Camp Tiger. Inspired by AEOP’s eCybermission, and Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, the camp offerings focused on various opportunities through the U.S. Army-based program, in addition to learning skills needed to prepare students to conduct their own research.
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August 1, 2023
NTID program helping deaf, hard-of-hearing students explore STEM careers
Spectrum News features NTID’s Explore Your Future camp, a six-day program for deaf and hard-of-hearing students from all over, to explore possible careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math).
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July 29, 2023
RIT hosts first AEOP apprentice with imaging science department
Rochester Institute of Technology’s imaging science department is collaborating with the Army Educational Outreach Program Apprenticeships and Fellowship for the first time this summer to provide high school seniors with a paid experience to learn about the discipline through innovation and research.
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July 28, 2023
Camp Tiger provides student from Afghanistan with first educational experience in more than two years
Mariam Khalil, 15, a camper at RIT’s Camp Tiger, joined two summer camp experiences this year – SMASH Camp and Community STEM Challenge. She said it’s her first educational experience in more than two years after the Taliban gained control in her country and has forbidden all girls from getting an education, no matter their age. She’ll start school this fall in Rochester, and has an interest for subjects such as math and science.
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July 24, 2023
Apprenticeship experience through AEOP puts high school student in quantum physics research at Miami University in Ohio
A program supported by Rochester Institute of Technology’s K-12 University Center is providing an Ohio high school student with the chance to work alongside professional researchers, and undergrad and graduate students to help bolster his exposure in physics. The summer apprenticeship opportunity through the Army Educational Outreach Program is administered by RIT K-12 on behalf of the U.S. Army, and provides paid internship-like experiences in science, technology, engineering and math for high school through postdoctoral individuals at Army labs and partner universities across the country.
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July 17, 2023
Students work with UNI faculty on research projects through RIT-led program sponsored by U.S. Army
As students from across the country apply to apprenticeship and fellowship experiences through the Army Educational Outreach Program, a goal of its centers, laboratories, partner sites and program staff is to make sure students are set up for success. It’s a collaboration that happens with program managers and those administering AEOP at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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June 29, 2023
RIT’s K-12 University Center linked to college in South Dakota through its relationship with the U.S. Army
South Dakota Mines, a university in Rapid City, South Dakota, is 1,506 miles from Rochester Institute of Technology. Where the two are connected, however, is with its partnership through Army Educational Outreach Program Apprenticeships and Fellowships.