AZUSA, Calif., July 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman
Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) Azusa campus recently concluded its
year-end activities for the company's High School Involvement
Partnership (HIP) program with its tenth annual engineering
competition and an awards dinner.
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The Northrop Grumman HIP program is designed to encourage
students interested in the science, technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM) fields and support their pursuit of technical
degrees. This serves the long-term goal of developing enough
scientists and engineers to meet future industry employment
needs.
"The HIP program provides students a unique hands-on experience
for applying engineering principles. With the guidance of Northrop
Grumman mentors, the students are able to design, build and test
their end product to ensure it meets the criteria of the
competition," said Anne Ostroff,
vice president of Northrop Grumman's Azusa Operations. "Success in
the program will hopefully encourage the students to continue their
educational pursuits in the technical fields."
The HIP competition challenge involved students from
Azusa High School and Gladstone High
School, assisted by Northrop Grumman employee mentors. Four teams
totaling 15 students and 22 mentors competed in a two-part VEX
Robotics Competition. The Minefield Competition was held on
December 10, 2013 and the VEX Toss Up
competition was held on May 20, 2014.
This year's overall winner was team Who's the MAN? (as in
Mark Ashley Natalie). Each team
consisted of students from both schools.
"Gladstone High School is grateful for the opportunity for our
students to participate in Northrop Grumman's HIP program," said
Scott Magnusson, principal of
Gladstone High School. "Our partnership with Northrop Grumman has
opened many doors for students planning on majoring in science,
math, or technology in college. The hands-on, real problem-solving
activities of HIP have been excellent. We're so appreciative of the
HIP mentors."
At the year-end celebration dinner sponsored by Northrop
Grumman, the HIP students presented overviews of their projects and
shared lessons learned during the program. Along with recognizing
the HIP students, this year's recipients of the Northrop Grumman
Engineering Scholars awards, Donovan
Gonzales and Bryan Zhong,
were honored.
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 maintaining a minimum grade-point
average of 3.0.
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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