Verizon Awards $50,000 to Simmons College for Technology

BOSTON (Feb. 27, 2001) — The Verizon Foundation recently awarded $50,000 to Simmons College to initiate a project to encourage young women in high school to pursue education in careers related to computer science and information technology.

Simmons College will work in collaboration with TechBoston, a department of the Boston Public Schools, to create a mentoring program for high school women interested in Web design and programming. Selected Simmons undergraduates will be trained by their professors to serve as mentors to these Verizon High School Scholars. Starting this spring, 16 Verizon Scholars will make weekly trips to Simmons, where they will receive training as they work to create their own Web-based projects.

Donna Beers, professor of math and computer science at Simmons, is coordinator and principle investigator of the project.

The Verizon students will receive a $1,000 Verizon Scholarship towards their college education.

Simmons College is a nationally recognized, small, private, predominately women’s university in the heart of Boston. It has undergraduate programs for women and graduate programs for women and men. Founded a century ago, Simmons was the first women’s college in the nation to offer women liberal arts training and career preparation.

CONTACT

Diane Millikan
617-521-2364

See Also

Department of Mathematics

Program in Computer Sciences

 

 

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