MITRE is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of engineers and scientists. To this end, the company supports science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education in a number of ways.

• MITRE participates in the Leadership Initiatives for Teaching and Technology (LIFT2) program, a Massachusetts-based professional learning program for middle and high school STEM teachers designed to help them relate classroom curriculum to real-world workplaces. LIFT2 was created to address the state's growing shortage of STEM professionals. Since 2007, MITRE has sponsored teacher externs to work on a variety of projects.

• Since 1981, MITRE has been a member of the National GEM (Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science) Consortium, which seeks to increase the participation of underrepresented groups at the master's and doctoral levels in the disciplines. As part of its membership, MITRE annually sponsors GEM Fellows for two consecutive summer internships.

• The MITRE Student Program provides summer jobs to high school and college students who are mentored by senior MITRE staff in areas such as software engineering, robotics, and nanotechnology.

• MITRE hosts Young Women in Engineering events at its Bedford, Mass., and McLean, Va., campuses. At the 2009 Bedford Event 35 girls—ranging from high school freshman to seniors—took part in a variety of hands-on activities, including cell phone antenna design experiments, audio hot spotting, and a brainstorming session using the ACME (Agile Capability Mashup Environment) lab's collaborative story development kit. The 2009 McLean event introduced 20 math and science-minded teenage girls to various careers available to them in the world of engineering and other technical disciplines.

• MITRE employees help inspire students through a variety of mentoring partnerships. One such partnership with schools in the San Antonio, Texas, area has grown into an annual Solar Car Race Event, which brings together hundreds of elementary and middle school students who work in teams to build sun-powered vehicles. At our Hampton, Va., site, MITRE employees mentor students through a partnership with two local universities to reduce computer science course drop out rates.

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April 2012

MITRE Helps Dranesville Elementary Think Outside the Box
Dranesville Elementary School invited MITRE to its classrooms for a morning of Out of the Box thinking.

April 2012

MITRE Hosts Scout Engineering Day
Uniforms at MITRE don't usually raise eyebrows. On a recent weekend, however, the uniforms belonged to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts participating in MITRE's first Scout Engineering Day. The event provides an opportunity for scouts to earn merit badges in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines.

February 2012

Local Students Introduced to Engineering at MITRE
They sat at round tables covered in bright table cloths, talking, laughing, and listening. High school students in hooded sweatshirts and letter jackets. MITRE engineers in suits and sweaters. All had one thing in common: a belief that women can make an impact through a career in engineering.

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