| Intel® Teach Program, launched in January 2000, is a worldwide effort to help teachers integrate technology into instructions and enhance student learning. The scope of this program represents the industry's recognition that all the educational technology in classrooms today is worth nothing if teachers don't know how to use it effectively. "Computers aren't magic, teachers are" said Dr. Craig Barrett, Intel CEO. To-date, over 1.5 Million Teachers have been trained in the Intel Teach Program in over 33 Countries across the world, with support from Governments. By end of 2003, the program was implemented in 22 provinces and trained over 200,000 teachers in China. With strong government support, Intel will train another 500,000 teachers during the next three years, according to the Strategic Cooperative Agreement signed between China MOE and Intel on August 28, 2003. More information
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| Volunteer Matching Grant Program |
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Under the Volunteer Matching Grant Program, the Intel Foundation donates USD 75 for every 20 hours of Intel employee volunteer time at a school or qualified education activity.
Approximately 713 Chengdu employees volunteered their valuable time during the 2006–2007 school year accumulating more than 3260 hours at 9 schools. This resulted in USD 12,225 being donated. In Shanghai, 955 employees volunteered 5,080 hours at 16 schools, which resulted in USD 19,050 being donated. Many hours have been spent in local classrooms mentoring students and helping teachers.
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| Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) |
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The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) is the world's largest pre-college science competition, known as the World Cup in Science for secondary school students from the age of 12 to 18. Started from 2000, Intel has cooperated with China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) to sponsor Chinese students to participate in both Intel ISEF finals hosted in the United States as well as its local affiliated fairs in China. According to CAST, there are around 15 million Chinese students participating the Intel ISEF local affiliated fairs in China every year. In 2004 Intel ISEF in Portland, Oregon, Yuanchen Zhu, a senior at the Shanghai Foreign Language School, won one of the three top prizes—Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award with his 3-D computer graphics project. More information
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| Intel® Kids Workshop Program |
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As the world's largest chip maker and leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products, Intel is committed to support PC educations in China through close cooperation with national and local educational initiatives and domestic PC manufacturers.
On May 9th, 1997, Beijing Intel® Kids PC Workshop, the first of its kind throughout Asia was founded. Intel CEO Dr. Craig Barrett attended its ribbon-cutting ceremony upon his visit in 1997. Following the success, Intel has been successfully established 16 similar workshops in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Qingdao, Jinan, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Shenyang, Xian, Wenzhou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Tianjin, Wuxi, Nanjing and Lhasa in Tibet with joint efforts from the local leading OEM partners, such as Founder, Great Wall, TCL, Langchao and Hisense. All of the workshops are delivering free weekend PC trainings for children with their parents or grand-parents. So far, more than 1.1 million kids and their parents and 80,000 teachers have received training in the workshops.
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| Higher education programs |
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The Intel® Higher Education Program is part of the Intel® Education Initiative, a worldwide commitment to help today's students prepare for the demands of tomorrow. The program focuses on advancing innovation in key areas of technology and developing a pipeline of world-class technical talent to meet the increasing worldwide demand for skilled engineers. Intel collaborates with top universities worldwide to expand university curricula, engage in focused research, and encourage students to pursue a range of opportunities for technical study and research. Technical areas of focus include semiconductor technology, high volume manufacturing, microarchitecture, circuits, computing platforms, software, networking, and communications. Intel's support of higher education curricula and research extends to more than 100 universities in more than 30 countries. University participation is by Intel invitation only.
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| Driving innovation through advanced research |
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Research is the key to discovering next-generation technologies. Intel is working with universities worldwide to enable and promote innovation and the advancement of technology through a variety of programs including university research grants and funding of open and collaborative research labs. The Intel Research Council, an internal group of technical experts, awards worldwide university research grants for projects designed to advance key focus research areas. Today more than 250 Intel sponsored research engagements are underway at universities throughout the world. Focus research areas include Applications, Architecture, Communications, High Volume Manufacturing, and Semiconductor Technology.
The first ever two Intel PRC Academic Forums Kicked off on Feb 25, 2005 in Chengdu and Mar 18, 2005 in Shanghai separately: The two forums focused on sharing information regarding Intel's manufacturing, R&D and supply network as well as on current and future challenges. It also provided an interactive and comprehensive forum for research and education discussion which facilitated communication and understanding between Intel technologists and university professors.
The Intel Academic Forum, part of Intel's higher education program, brings together faculty members from leading technology institutions from around the region to exchange technical views with some of Intel's technologists on future research and trends. And at the same time, facilitate faculties to gain in-depth understanding of Intel® technologies through direct interaction.
The forum in chengdu brought together over 20 members from Chengdu and Xian while the forum in shanghai brought together 54 faculty members from Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Nanjing.
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| Curriculum workshops in China |
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Intel holds curriculum workshops annually with local universities participation in focused technology areas such as Embedded System (Intel XScale® and Embedded IA), IXA, HPC (High Performance computing). The 2004 Embedded System Workshop held September 2–3, 2004 has 53 faculties from 24 universities participated. The China IXA Day held November 10–11, 2004 has 57 participants from 19 universities participated. During these workshops, Intel shared with the universities its latest technology development in these tech areas, the universities also share the best known methods in curriculum development so as to further improve their curriculum in their universities.
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The Intel® Learn Program is designed as an informal, after school curriculum, intended for community-based technology centers and schools.
In China, Intel started to work with CAST (China Association for Science and Technology) and PKU (Peking University) to pilot the program since Q3, 2003. Intel is primarily responsible for the design and distribution of the high quality curriculum for learners ages 8–16 that is being taught in the local community centers. Intel was also responsible for the design of the staff training, and for a train-the-trainer program. CAST is responsible for administration of the program, including the administration of all staff training and learner sessions at local community centers. PKU is responsible for pedagogical assistance and evaluation.
Until now, the program has been implemented in 30 provinces in China, trained 233 staffs and over 40000 kids.
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| The first ever Intel APAC academic forum kicked off in fall IDF'03 in Shenzhen |
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In recognition of its commitment to support the IT research and development in China and the rest of the world, Intel Corporation held the first ever Intel Asia Pacific Regional Academic Forum held in Shenzhen and coinciding with the company's 2003 Intel Fall Developer Forum (IDF). The Intel Academic Forum, part of Intel's higher education program, brings together faculty members from leading technology institutions from around the region to exchange technical views with some of Intel's leading technologists on future research and trends.
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| Intel Student Research Contest (ISRC) kicked off in China |
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An Intel Student Research Contest (ISRC) was announced in October 2003 at Shenzhen IDF. Students from ten select universities in China, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Fudan University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, University of Science and Technology of China, Nanjing University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, University of Electronics Science and Technology (Chengdu) were invited to submit research proposals to be judged by an Intel panel which is formed by Intel researchers as well as Intel Fellows. The three final winners will receive an Intel grant of up to RMB 10,000.
"The Intel Student Research Contest is designed to stimulate the inventiveness by challenging the university graduates in the sciences and engineering disciplines to explore frontiers of future computing," said Peter Liou, Director of Intel China Research Lab. "We hope by organizing the Intel Student Research Contest in China, we can better encourage and enable the graduates to obtain the experimental experience of independent research, and creative thinking."
The two day forum brought together 60 faculty members from Taiwan, India, Malaysia, Philippines, and China in an effort to establish ongoing collaboration among universities from Asia Pacific on curriculum and research development, and at the same time, gain in depth understanding of Intel technologies through direct interaction.
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