SALT LAKE CITY, June 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop
Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) recently sponsored an engineering
and design project demonstration and competition for eight area
high school students at its Salt Lake
City facility to conclude this year's High School
Involvement Partnership (HIP) mentoring and scholarship
program.
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The HIP program assists high school students with career awareness
and development goals. The program provides on-the-job experience,
including working with Northrop Grumman employee mentors on an
engineering-related project.
"These students gained valuable engineering and science
experience through the HIP program," said Jim Lupica, director of manufacturing and the
lead campus executive for Northrop Grumman's Salt Lake City facility. "We were impressed by
the innovation, creativity and enthusiasm that they displayed."
The HIP program's fifth year in Salt Lake
City concluded May 21 when
eight students from West High School demonstrated their computer
science and electronics projects. The projects included building
and programming robotic helicopters, a fingerprint scanner to
unlock a door, and a two-dimensional motion education aid to teach
physics students about kinetic energy and Newton's laws of
motion.
The HIP students and their parents joined Northrop Grumman
employees May 21 for an awards
banquet where the students gave presentations about their projects
and celebrated their accomplishments.
Launched in 1998 by Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems sector
in Baltimore, the HIP program has
expanded to include company locations nationwide. To be accepted
into the Salt Lake City HIP program, high school sophomores must
attend a Northrop Grumman-partnered public high school, maintain a
3.0+ grade-point average, complete an application, submit an essay
with two letters of recommendation and be selected through an
interview process. The program runs during the school year and
requires a minimum two-year commitment.
Students who successfully complete the HIP program are eligible
for a partial college/university scholarship for four consecutive
years. Scholarship requirements include full-time enrollment in an
accredited academic program in engineering, physics, computer
science or mathematics and maintenance of a 3.0+ grade-point
average.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing
innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems,
cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and
commercial customers worldwide. Please visit
www.northropgrumman.com for more information.
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