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DONATIONS
On Tuesday evening May 5, 2009, Steve Otis - Chapter Chairman, Ken Sheffield (Chairman Student Liaison Committee) and Bob Hanley (Chairman Contributions Committee of the Houston Chapter) attended the Thirty Third Annual Excellence Awards Program for graduating seniors of H.I.S.D.’s High School for Engineering Professions, which was held at the Conrad Hilton Hotel on the campus of the University of Houston. The Houston Chapter awarded $1,000 scholarships each to ten of the graduating students, to assist them with their freshman year expenses at colleges and universities.
API HOUSTON CONTRIBUTIONS EXCEED TWO MILLION DOLLARS
During the past 24 years, the Houston Chapter of the API has contributed more than 2.12 million USD to educational ( 94% ) and charitable/civic ( 6% ) activities. Cumulative contributions since 1985 to endowed scholarship programs at 5 public universities in the State of Texas offering Petroleum Engineering degrees ($266K each) total 1.33 million dollars. Contributions to Louisiana State University’s Craft and Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering non endowed scholarship program since 1998 for students enrolled in Petroleum Engineering total $60K USD. Contributions made to benefit middle school and high school students through the Science Engineering Fair of Houston since 1985 and H.I.S.D.’s High School for Engineering Professions since 1998 total $239K USD.
During that same period, the Chapter contributed $305K USD for educational activities for elementary level students and the general public through the Weiss Energy Hall at Houston’s Museum of Natural Science and the Offshore Energy Center’s “Ocean Star” offshore drilling rig museum in Galveston, Texas. An additional $51K USD was contributed to seminars for secondary level education teachers conducted by the Denver Earth Science Project of the Colorado School of Mines, and by NEED, the National Energy Education Development project.
API - Houston Contributions 1986 - 2009 |
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