National Science Board Names 2008 Public Service – Bayer and SAE International recognized for outstanding contributions to increase understanding of science and engineering

We are very pleased to advise the Board that NSB, The National Science Board has announced today that SAE is the 2008 recipient of their Public Service Award. Here is the news story in Wednesday’s Pittsburgh Post Gazette http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08093/869685-28.stm . The NSB release is here http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=111368&org=NSF . This award is in recognition of all of our education programs including AWIM and CDS.

This award, while among a number of awards that have recognized SAE’s leadership in education in recent months, is certainly the most prestigious. Tom Ryan will accept the award on behalf of SAE and the many volunteers and financial supporters at a black-tie ceremony on May 6 at the U.S. Department of State in Washington.

…

The engineers’ real-life perspective is a significant component of A World in Motion http://www.awim.org/ — a
classroom curriculum developed by SAE International, a Marshall-based engineering
industry association — which is being utilized in more than 400 school districts in the United
States and Canada. For its efforts to promote science and engineering education to children
as early as kindergarten and through the college level, SAE is one of two recipients of the
National Science Board’s 2008 Public Service Award.