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- Leadership2007 ARA Conference Digital Newsroom [caption id="attachment_796" align="alignleft" width="355" caption="Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator - In 2009, Pres. Barack Obama appointed the retired United States Marine Corps major general, and former astronaut to head NASA. He is the first African American appointed to head the U.S. Space program."][/caption] By providing youth with strong role-models and an intensive Robert R. Taylor Network experience, we help create future leaders in architecture, science, technology, engineering and math (ASTEM) and business. RRTN takes individuals with raw potential and ideas and helps to mold them into leaders. We give them the tools and the connections to move into the world and innovate. When we look at the highest circles of academia and business, we still find a small number of black and minority individuals. These demographics do not reflect lesser intelligence or capacity, but they reveal individuals who have had significantly different role models and markedly different access to opportunities. The average student would probably not be able to list five black innovators or inventors, but could easily recall the accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin or Alexander Graham Bell. RRTN aims to make the achievers in black history more engaging and available to the upcoming generation. We…
- ArchiveCollections Resources The RRTN archive is the definitive source on black and minority achievement across the world and deep into history. RRTN collaborates with researchers, collectors, and innovators in universities and corporations to collect and maintain many valuable artifacts from black culture in science, engineering, and artistic fields. History gathered by RRTN and safeguarded with MIT Technologies. Utilizing a mash-up of available web technologies, we store these pieces of history in a central archival database to be safeguarded through time.As the archive grows, more and more material is transferred over to the public for people to enjoy. Fed through MIT-driven technologies, the collected artifacts can be displayed in engaging multimedia presentations, such as the ADIAS timeline or be used by RRTN affiliates in research, curricula, and museums. Each affiliate in the RRTN Network has access to these archives, for contributions or extraction, through a highly expandable and user-friendly corporate collaboration application known as LotusLive. With the aid of LotusLive, distance is no longer a factor in the equation for exchanging and managing vast amounts of material securely. Archive Collections // //
- InstituteThe RRTN Institute is the third of five programmatic areas in RRTN’s LAIV Network. The Institute concentrates on developing and executing online and offline pre-professional research and development educational experiences. These experiences engage youth and professionals in the end-to-end process of innovation, invention, and entrepreneurship, in the fields of architecture, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(ASTEM). The Institute’s programs are characterized by MIT’s and Robert R. Taylor’s “learn by doing” philosophy. The current portfolio of programs include: XStudio – summer and academic year internship program, which brings together college and high school interns to work on ASTEM related research projects in a professional setting Taylor Labs – a node site that comprises of a hardware and software bundles that is located at a College Open Course Exchange(OCX) – OCX is the web-based publication of educational course content. The RRTN Open Course Exchange is a marketplace of educational curriculum. Students, teachers, and professionals can create, upload, and share courses. Open Course Ware is distributed for free Projects – RRTN and its node partners are working on various projects such as the 365 Calender Mobile Quiz that employ available technologies to create products and services for the node sites and the public in general Technologies –…
- VenturesA venture-backed incubator and technology transfer agent which provides access to intellectual property, financing, education, mentors and services in order to start and grow new technology-based businesses managed by black youth and professionals. Initial projects RRTN is focusing on are: Venture Projects Venture Fund Venture Network Economic Impact Research City of Brockton. Currently, RRTN is working on various projects in the city of Brockton, MA focused on the economic revitalization of the city. This includes working with the City of Brockton to create up-to-date GIS maps of the city, developing current foreclosed property, and bringing in new businesses centered around technology. RRTN’s collaboration aims to give this Gateway City just as strong a foothold in the beginning of this century as it had in the last. Taylor Labs Taylor Labs are professional, educational, advanced IT based research labs primarily focused on helping youth to develop innovative and inventive businesses, products, and services. Constructed with the infrastructure of a flexible digital studio space, Taylor Labs will support youth participation in advanced research lab experiments and product pilots. Taylor Labs will also nurture youth creativity, and fund youth started state-of-the-art technology-based business enterprises. Like Node sites, RRTN’s preliminary regional focus for Taylor…
- NetworkRRTN is a network of global partners and locations linked by virtual social and professional communities and a central technology platform of e-services. These e-services will support research, archiving, meeting, collaborating, education, training, and delivering content and programs centered around cultural history, math, science, and professional development. Our goal is to link a cultural community in architecture, science, technology, engineering, and math (ASTEM) together in order to foster economic opportunity and self-empowerment. RRTN’s Network is comprised of four (4) key components: Node Sites Online Communities Partners Technology Platform Node Sites Using a “Visa-like” business model, RRTN creates node sites around the world that will function as an economic marketplace and nexus of innovation and invention. Both youth and professionals will be able to interact at these sites. These node sites can be located at universities, schools, camps, libraries, corporations, community centers, and in personal homes. Our initial regional foci are Africa, the Caribbean, and the US. We have plans to expand into Europe and Asia. We are piloting node sites and Taylor Labs at MIT, Hampton University, Tuskegee University, Ghana Telecom University College, NIHERST/ University of Trinidad and Tobago, City of Brockton, Brockton Public High School, Hope Valley Experimental School,…
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