Wipro expands fellowship program

#Wipro Ltd. (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) and the #University of North Texas at Dallas (UNT Dallas) jointly announced the expansion of the #Wipro Science Education Fellowship program in the United States.

The multi-year program, announced 3 March 2017, will involve more than 70 school teachers, with the aim of nurturing excellence in science, starting with the public school systems of the Greater Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) area.

The program will focus on training educators to build leadership skills and teaching excellence within STEM disciplines, by leveraging research-validated expertise from UNT Dallas’ College of Education, and designing transformative and innovative instructional experiences for DFW area’s K-12 schools that traditionally are under-funded.

For the Greater DFW public schools system, the program and its Fellows will be an integrated part of its effort towards STEM capacity development in six districts, including Cedar Hill Independent School District, Dallas Independent School District, Desoto Independent School District, Grand Prairie Independent School District, Irving School District and Lancaster Independent School District.

The three-year program, funded entirely by Wipro, comprises of a rigorous selection process that will identify 24 experienced science teachers from grades K-12 within the Greater DFW area to participate in the program each year (serving 72 Fellows in total).

The nomination process for the fellowship will commence by mid-March with the selection due to be completed by early May. The Wipro SEF program is scheduled to begin in August 2017. fii-news.com