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Center Board Tours Cardozo High School Transportation Academy

Posted March 2016

On Monday March 14, 2016 the Center’s board held their bi-annual meeting at Cardozo High School in Washington, DC.  This location was specifically picked because of Cardozo’s unique TransSTEM academy . Established in 1991 as the first transportation studies academy in the Washington, DC metropolitan area,
Cardozo’s TransSTEM academy bridges the gap between the classroom and the workplace, thereby enabling students to learn about, visit and work in various areas of the transportation industry. The meeting began with a brief summary of three of the Center’s current projects:

  Bus Operator Apprenticeship Initiative (Staff Lead: Tia Brown)
  Veteran Outreach and Recruitment for Signal Maintenance Occupations (Staff Lead: Mark Dysart)
  Transit Core Competencies Curriculum to Orient and Engage Young People to Careers in Public Transportation (Staff Lead: Pat Greenfield)

After the meeting, Center board and staff toured the facility where they learned more about the programs offered there, met students and observed classroom activities such as students’ virtual manipulation of circuitry and use of advanced simulators to learn how to fly planes.