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AT&T gives $40,000 to boost Boys & Girls Club’s STEM programs
By Cristina Rojas/The Times of Trenton
on March 13, 2014 at 9:54 PM, updated March 13, 2014 at 10:02 PMTRENTON — In a room inside the Boys & Girls Club on Centre Street, two high school seniors tinker with computer parts, while a group of middle-schoolers play a math game, moving around cups and coins to learn about probability.
The programs help to ignite an interest in science, technology, engineering and math
programs among the students and received a $40,000 boost from AT&T so that children in other grade levels can participate.“What you’re doing is the most important thing that is going on in our country today,” AT&T Mid-Atlantic president Mike Schweder told the students today.
The contribution is part of the company’s Aspire program, which has committed $350 million toward programs nationwide that prepare students to be college- or career-ready.