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Siemens supports educational aspirations
Siemens recently announced the creation of two
high school scholarship programs that will award
more than $1 million annually in scholarships,
grants, awards and travel stipends to students,
■teachers and high schools. The Siemens
Westinghouse Science and Technology
Competition and the Siemens Awards for
Advanced Placement are designed to promote
interest and excellence in high school math and
science and will be directed through the newly
created Siemens Foundation.
. -Siemens is collaborating with two of the nation’s
preeminent educational organizations - The
College Board and the Educational Testing
Service - to develop and administer the programs.
The announcement was made by Albert Hoser,
president and CEO of Siemens Corporation, who
will serve as Chairman and CEO of the Siemens
Foundation. “As a global company, we are deeply
concerned about the competitiveness of our wotk
iforce in all the countries where we do business,”
said Hoser. “We are committed to raising the bar
on educational standards in this country and to
assisting in the acceleration of advances through
out the U.S. educational system,” he added.
Hoser continued, “The Siemens Foundation pro
grams are unique in their structure, awards and
partnerships. We are indeed proud to recognize
excellence in science and math education."
The Siemens Awards for
Advanced Placement
The Siemens Foundation also announced the
winners of the first-ever Siemens Awards for
Advanced Placement. outstanding
high school students, 20 teachers (12 regional and
eight urban teachers) and 10 high schools (six
regional and four urban schools) were rewarded
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there is a 12-person maximum
seating capacity. Late registration
at the seminar is $95 if space is
available. Registration deadline is
at noon on Jan. 15.
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The University of Georgia
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hours in advance. To register or
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Gainesville (770) 531-5681.
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for excellence in Advanced Placement studies,
instruction and administration. Student winners
received scholarships of $3,000 each and teachers
and schools received recognition awards of SI,OOO
each.
The Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement
recognize students who have the highest cumula
tive score on the greatest
number of Advanced
Placement exams taken
in grades 9,10 and 11 in
the following subjects:
Biology; Calculus BC;
Chemistry; Computer
Science AB; Environ
mental Science; Physics
C (Electricity and
Magnetism); and Physics
C (Mechanics).
Four student winners in
six regions of the country
are chosen, two of
whom, one male and one
female, are selected as
national winners, earning
an additional $5,000
scholarship award for a
total of SB,OOO.
“These talented stu
dents inspire their peers
to reach higher in the
math and science disci-
plines and demonstrate that learning can indeed be
exciting,” said Hoser. “The teachers and high
schools selected as award winners should serve as
catalysts to their peers, encouraging them to raise
the standards for teaching and learning mathemat-
American Express credit cards are
now being accepted as payment
for seminars.
Kiwanis hosting Y2K
presentation on Jan. 13
The Cumming Kiwanis Club is
hosting a Y2K (Year 2000) pre
sentation at its next weekly lun
cheon meeting scheduled for
Wednesday, Jan. 13, at noon. The
presentation will be made by a
panel of three who have vast
experience in software, software
security and information manage
ment operations.
The meeting will be held in the
Kiwanis building located on
Pilgrim Mill Road next to the City
Park. The cost is $6, which
includes the meal, and reserva
tions must be made by Tuesday,
Jan. 12. Seating is limited.
For more information or to make
reservations, call Kiwanis
President Rick Lee at (770) 887-
7560.
Entrepreneur’s seminar
available through NGT
“Starting Your Own Business” is
an evening seminar being offered
on Wednesday, Jan. 20, from 6-8
p.m. at North Georgia Tech at the
Carlton Center classroom, Hwy.
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SIEMENS FOUNDATION
The three objectives of the
Foundation and its programs:
• To increase the available
pool of highly skilled scientists
and engineers that are need
ed to meet the manufacturing,
service, engineering and R&D
needs of the globally competi
tive economy.
• To raise the bar of educa
tional standards by applying
the same methodologies that
we use in business to continu
ally improve our processes
in this case, the processes of
the knowledge supply chain.
• To act as a catalyst in fos
tering a public policy discus
sion that will encourage action
in the policy process.
197, Clarkesville. Advance regis
tration $25; late registration at
seminar S3O if space is available.
This seminar contains preventure
information on the basics of start
ing and maintaining a new busi
ness. A “How to Start Manual” is
included in this course.
This course is designed primari
ly for persons who are consider
ing starting a new business, it pre
sents information of value to a
prospective entrepreneur and
includes an overview of legal,
marketing, and financial consider
ations and composition of a useful
business plan.
To register for this seminar or
get further information call Lynn
Hagihara at North Georgia Tech
in Clarkesville (706) 754-7716 or
Betty Stephens at The University
Os Georgia in Gainesville (770)
531-5681.
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D* Siemens Westinghouse Science
and'technology Competition
The Siemens Westinghouse Science and
Technology Competition embodies the 150-year
long Siemens commitment to educational excel
lence.
The Siemens Westinghouse
Science and Technology
Competition is an annual national
science, mathematics and technolo
gy research competition for individ
uals and teams, with regional and
national levels of competition.
Each year, the Siemens
Westinghouse Science and
Technology Competition will solic
it individual and team submissions
of research projects in the hard sci
ence disciplines. There will be six
preliminary regional awards with
individuals winning $20,000 schol
arships and teams splitting $30,000
scholarships. The culmination will
be a SIOO,OOO national scholarship
to a winning individual student,
with the top team winning $90,000
in scholarships, to be divided
among the students.
For more information about the
Siemens Awards for Advanced
Placement, the Siemens
Westinghouse Science and Technology
Competition or the Siemens Foundation please
visit www.siemens-foundation.org or write to the
Siemens Foundation, 1301 Avenue of the
Americas, New York, NY 10019. . .
Area small-business
owner named finalist
Mark Keener, owner of
Awesome Games in Atlanta, was
named one of 10 finalists in Mail
Boxes Etc.’s (MBE) nationwide
“See Your Small Business on the
Super Bowl Search II.” Awesome.
Games develops board games.
The winner will be showcased
during a Super Bowl XXXIII
commercial on Sunday, Jan. 31.
In addition to appearing in MBE’s
nationally televised commercial,
the winner gets $5,000. Second
and third-place winners will
receive $2,000 each.
The search was open to self
employed, independent contrac
tors working from home and
small business. The winner will
be announced as the Super Bowl
nears.
FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Sunday, January 10, IS—— I
GUNS from 1A
Johnson, waiting for him to put
down an Uzi submachine gun.
Although no one else was on the
property at the time, he reportedly
threatened to kill civilians during
talks with a negotiator. During the
standoff, he also walked in and out
of the trailer, where investigators
believed he had stockpiled more
weapons.
“When this man told us the
president told him not to surrender
his weapons or property, I knew it
was serious,” Sheriff Denny
Hendrix said. “I was sick to death
somebody was going to die.”
Dressed in camouflage pants,
Johnson talked to officers about
being the highest ranking libera
tion member in the state of
Georgia and expressed concern he
was being
Deputies recov
ered an Uzi subma
chine gun fitted
with a silencer; a
Smith & Wesson
.357 Magnum and
three pistols.
watched by
satellites.
Team mem
bers eventually
stunned him
with a “flash
bang” device,
which looks
similar to a
hand grenade
and sounds like
a large firecracker. They took him
into custody without firing a shot.
One SRT team member com
mented the department was not
outtnanned but possibly was out
gunned by Johnson. Deputies
recovered an Uzi submachine gun
fitted with a silencer; a Smith and
Wesson .357 Magnum revolver
and three pistols —a .380-caliber,
a derringer and 9mm. He also was
carrying several fully loaded clips
and three knives. An AK-47 and
Winchester rifle were found on the
ground within his reach.
The standoff was the first real
test for the SRT, which received its
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an active team in November,.'
Hendrix said the whole team ;
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and procedure to ;
give everyone an ;
opportunity to.;
end these situa
tions peacefully,” •
Hendrix said,/
adding he had given the orderto •
prevent Johnson’s escape **
cost.
It was not Johnson’s first brash ■!
with the law. Two officers ;
responded to the same residence ;
on Halloween night in 1997 when :
he previously threatened to kill his
father. .---
His parents told investigators
Thursday their son needs medical
attention and was not taking bis
medication. ' •*
After booking him in at the
jail, authorities transported him tb
Baptist North Hospital for a physi
cal evaluation.
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