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Lockheed Martin Visits Syracuse Camp
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| Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2011- 9:00 - 10:00 |
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Location: Syracuse, NY
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Lockheed Martin employees this week presented to students at the Youth Impact Program (YIP) at Syracuse University's Lampe Athletics Complex. The camp, one of the nation's most innovative summer mentoring initiatives for disadvantaged youth, is made up of sixth, seventh and eighth grade at-risk boys drawn from city of Syracuse middle schools.
The team presented three activities including an egg drop, for which students had to build a "helmet" to protect it from cracking; constructing a free-standing paper tower; and an exercise where student teams had to direct a robot on how to build a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
The four-week, all-day program includes classroom work in mathematics, language and writing each morning followed by a life skills session, a football chalk talk and concludes with a live football practice in the afternoon.
The morning of our STEM presentations, the kids were also treated to a special visit by former SU great and Pro Football Hall of Fame member Floyd Little, who stopped by to say hi and offer words of encouragement.
YIP is coordinated by former SU football player Joe Fields and is staffed by Syracuse district teachers with more than a dozen current SU football student athletes serving as mentors.
Thanks to Jay Abendroth, Ken Casarsa, Chris Mekker and Keith Nichols for helping out.
YIP was created by Riki Ellison, a former Lockheed Martin employee who also founded the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance<
http://www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org/
>, a nonprofit organization launched in 2002 with a mission to drive the political and public will for the deployment, development and evolution of missile defense. A former football player, Ellison won three Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers.
Visit the Youth Impact Program website here<
http://www.youthimpactprogram.org/
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