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"Support For Education" - 8 Total Result(s)
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An Award-Winning Initiative
In 2000, Hewlett-Packard was named a winner of the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership. Created by then U.S. President Bill Clinton, it was the only presidential award honoring companies for outs ...
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Black Engineers of the Year
In 1999, HP submitted its first employees for consideration at the annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference. The company had been an active supporter of the conference for years, but this w ...
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Creating an Opportunity Loop
HP’s educational and employment initiatives to improve equality sometimes reinforced one other. In 1975, Howard University engineering student Ernest Priestly began working at Hewlett-Packard the summ ...
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HP’s Faculty Loan Program at HBCUs
In 1975, Hewlett-Packard launched a faculty loan program in which HP engineers taught at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with the company’s assistance. Harry Portwood spent at lea ...
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Jean Kimes: Minority Education Leader
In 1968 Jean Kimes took a leave of absence from the Microwave Division to work with adult and juvenile minority education programs in San Francisco, where she spent much of her time helping her studen ...
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Making a Case: The HP 5036A Micro Lab
As microprocessor-based computers were gaining traction in the 1970s, Hewlett-Packard introduced the 5036A Micro Lab as an educational tool designed to teach engineers about the basics of microprocess ...
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Top of the Class: HP 2007A
This promotional photograph depicts students using the HP 2007A Educational Computer System in a Vancouver classroom. The 2007A was an early time-share computer specifically designed for educational e ...
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Video: African American Students Day
HP’s employee resource groups drove and informed much of the company’s diversity programming. Since 1974, the Black Employees Forum had sponsored an annual African American Students Day to encourage s ...