Sentences with phrase «as pilot»

CommonBond began as a pilot program at The University of Pennsylvania.

Aviation Hazard: The increased risk of death or injury resulting from participation in aviation, usually as a pilot.

1987: The Home Equity Conversion Program is established as a pilot project at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban development (HUD).

As pilot programs at seven universities around the country wrap up their evaluations of the Kindle DX as a viable teaching tool and textbook alternative, we see pretty much the expected results.

The PL - 100 will launch in Russia as a pilot soon (it will cost 12,000 Rubles, around $ 400), no news when it'll launch in other places yet.

An ereader lending program, with 49 ereaders, made e-content more attractive to users, and usage was perhaps also spurred by timing — as the pilot occurred at the end of the fall semester.

After releasing a few Vizio products to the Canadian market as pilot tests, they decided that this was «the right time in the marketplace to partner with Future Shop and Best Buy and bring the full product line to Canada.»

Two brave indie bookstores in the the Greater Seattle area signed up as pilot sites and even offered enthusiastic quotes about the initiative.

The facility comprises of a 3800m ² clean room area, for backplane processing and test and assembly processes as well as a pilot production line for large area, smart, flexible electronic applications on plastic substrates,» says the company's CEO Tim Burne.

Immerse yourself in WWI combat and the dawn of aerial warfare as you pilot revolutionary flying machines.

Whatever you may think of Dahl's personality, however, he served his country very bravely as a pilot during the war, and then, despite terrible injuries, dedicated himself to espionage work in Washington when he could have settled into a safe desk job at home.

The new service for library members is being rolled out as a pilot project in 10 different libraries.

You can think of it as a pilot project to gauge the viability of rolling out something more substantial.

Books will only be shipped to a few key markets, but the intention is to use Manhattan, West Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area as a pilot for an eventual Nationwide rollout.

Maybe as a pilot program, it would have some value..

Left Behind begins on a transatlantic flight from London to New York as the pilot, Rayford Steele, is debating whether to start an affair with one of his stewardesses.

As I pilot the SUV casually — but with spirit — up the Pacific Coast Highway north of San Francisco, I can feel that this seven - passenger people mover has received the same level of obsession with lightness and the same dedication to driving feel as the Mazda Miata.

And just to confirm the 2020 Passport won't be an SUV, it'll ride on the same platform as the Pilot and will also be built alongside it in Alabama, where the automaker also builds the Odyssey and Ridgeline.

As the pilot, you've got tremendous confidence because both steering and braking — the driver's two primary means of feedback — are excellent in both actuation and feel.

It's worth noting that the Acura MDX, which rides on the same platform as the Pilot and has a more powerful version of its 3.5 - liter V6, has a $ 44,000 starting price.

The pace car is the only one made with a six - speed manual transmission, and it also served as a pilot car used by the factory to test assembly procedures for other 2003 models.

After all, it's basically the same thing as a Pilot but without AWD, a squared - off nose, and ungainly rear doors.

Dale jumped the weighty FourTrax Rancher ATV, a feat I would not have attempted, as the Pilot made easy work of the terrain.

Information about a career as a pilot is available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.

This assessment will be conducted through analysis of information collected from members of the public who volunteer to serve as pilot test participants.

As AMG had revealed previously, the 2015 Mercedes - AMG GT gets a two - mode exhaust with flaps that open as the pilot drives more aggressively.

That's because the complex teacher evaluation process remains, so far, as a pilot program in about a dozen school districts.

MEMPHIS IS THE TARGET The other voucher bill (HB126) left progressing through committee is squarely and unfairly aimed at Memphis as a pilot.

Over the past two years, the 270 - student William Smith High School has reinvented itself as a pilot school with an intense focus on union - district collaboration, expanded learning opportunities, and community outreach.

We commissioned musician Jay Mankita to write songs for us about healthy eating and then had him perform them in 5 NYC schools one week as a pilot project.

The HTML5 3D Simulator was created in 2013 and is currently being used as pilot software for three of Cuyahoga Community College's (Tri-C) anatomy and physiology (A&P) courses.

Upon graduation, Gary entered the Air Force and subsequently earned his wings as a pilot in 1984.

The Kellogg Foundation funding covers a two - year period from January 2015 to December 2016, and will focus on preparing school leaders and teachers to do effective family engagement, as well as a pilot program to connect childcare providers with early childhood classroom teachers.

It certainly would address a number of the concerns if it was an opt out or a geographically based student body — at least as a pilot program so that there could be a fair assessment and discussion about the qualitative differences between the two school models.

Many of those practices were introduced as pilot programs or changes in curriculum that were attempted for a year or two and then discarded for the next newest idea.

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Lawrence Nelson is one of the first teachers to teach the Transition position when it started as a pilot program through Duval County Public Schools and Project SOS.

Fifteen additional districts were selected as pilot network sites in year 1 and received implementation support without grant funding to promote the expansion of blended learning statewide.

Alder GSE began in 2010 as a pilot program of Aspire Public Schools.

The only honest thing for the DfE to do this year would be to treat the entire cohort as a pilot and not publish any results from this year.

A preservice language arts methods class was selected to serve as a pilot population (N = 22) for development of the GOALS Model.

As you pilot the resources, focus on the learning outcomes you've identified.

Instead, House legislators signaled they intend to spend big on initiatives such as a pilot program for so - called «advanced teaching roles» and a «modernization» of the N.C. Department of Public Instruction's (DPI) business system.

In Queensland, Australia the state's «New Basics» and «Rich Tasks» approach to standards and assessment, which began as a pilot in 2003, offers extended, multi-disciplinary tasks that are developed centrally and used locally when teachers determine the time is right and they can be integrated with locally - oriented curriculum.

Starting as a pilot in high - need, hard - to - reach communities in 2010, the program has gained legislative support over the years and been expanded to reach tens of thousands of students across the state.

A provision snuck into the budget in the 2014 session ordered the State Board of Education to approve two virtual charter schools as pilot programs.

As Pilot high schools, the schools garner a high level of flexibility and autonomy from the school district.

This early virtual field experience was created as a pilot project to help create a more suitable form of field experience aimed at helping teacher candidates gain a better understanding of VS. This section identifies the five key elements for a successful early field experience of VS, the challenges, and suggestions for future implementations.

Bryan authored a much - discussed draft of legislation last year that would have funneled five of the state's lowest - performing elementary schools into the state - controlled achievement districts as a pilot program, although the notion did not gain any significant traction during the General Assembly's long budget debates last summer.

At Graff's school, the program started as a pilot and expanded each year.