Education
ShopGirls @ Harvard
Don’t under estimate the ability of the business community to impact education.
At the press conference at Harvard to roll out Pathways to Prosperity, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan lauded the ShopGirls program at Granite Falls High School where an all-girl team built a prototype car last year that got more than 470 miles to a gallon of diesel.
Duncan called the program one of his “favorite examples” of education programs that “are changing students’ lives.”
The ShopGirls came to the attention of Duncan’s staff through last October’s Third Annual Green Industrial Business and Career Expo cosponsored by the MIC, the Puget Sound Industrial Excellence Center, South Seattle Community College, the Aerospace Joint Apprenticeship Committee and many other partners including The Boeing Company and Nucor Steel Seattle.
