IPL Announces Multi-year Support
for New Tech High @ Arsenal Tech

Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL) has made another financial commitment to education in central Indiana, this time to impact the lives of the 400 Indianapolis Public Schools’ (IPS) students attending New Tech High @ Arsenal Tech.

 
IPL’s commitment includes a gift of $10,000 each year for the next three years to purchase science and technology equipment to support New Tech High @ Arsenal Tech.  In addition, IPL employees will serve as mentors through the Junior Achievement Mentor Program, which supports the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Common Goal Initiative. IPL will also assist the faculty of New Tech High @ Arsenal Tech as they develop and facilitate a unique inquiry-based project focused on researching the viability of alternative fuel sources to generate electricity in Indiana. Finally, a career awareness module will be offered that requires students to interview IPL employees by e-mail about their specific jobs and to write descriptions... <more>

Bob Compton Visits New Tech High @ Arsenal Tech!

Bob Compton is a Harvard Business School graduate with an honorary Doctorate from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He has spent most of his career as a professional venture capital investor specializing in start-up technology companies, primarily medical tech and software. Compton's latest endeavors include global traveler, author, record producer, photographer and filmmaker.

Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination is his first documentary film and was released in 2007. The film follows two high school seniors in India, China and the U.S. (US students were from Carmel, IN) to compare and contrast the high school experiences in each country. How kids spend their time during high school - approximately four years, or two million minutes - in each culture is radically different and has profound implications for America's economy in the decades ahead. Compton has since produced several follow-up films, taking a deeper look into global education as well as films on entrepreneurship - both in the U.S. and in China.

Click here to read Bob's reaction to his in-depth school visit.  

 

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