Sentences with phrase «build school buildings»

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In school, diversity in the classroom means more learning from each other, having creative discussions and building wider networks.

The first is in the town's state - of - the - art medical school, built into the sheer mountainside that frames the western edge of town.

Thiel Fellow and 19 - year - old Harvard drop - out Connor Zwick will explain the «democratization of hardware over the next decade» that led him to leave school and found Milkshake Labs, which is building a game controller for smartphones.

It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

Mr. Trump's institution is unique among for - profit schools: it is built almost entirely around the prestige and prominence of a single individual.

In a paper in, Kellogg School of Management professor Robert Wolcott illustrates the problems that Netflix founder Reed Hastings had in 1997 in building a platform.

Though Microsoft board member Hastings has ties to the Seattle area, he stumbled upon DreamBox while visiting a school in San Jose, Calif., that happened to be using the software and was «wowed by how kids were engaged because it has some entertainment built into it,» he told the Seattle Times.

Richard Branson is an iconic entrepreneurial figure, a high school drop - out whose knack for seizing opportunities, taking risks, spotting opportunities, and betting on himself and the people around him to build businesses in a variety of industries.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Klawe started with the hypothesis that if Harvey Mudd created an environment that was supportive and engaging for everyone; if the school built confidence and community among underrepresented groups; and if it demystified the path to success, a diverse group of students would be attracted to the college and succeed there.

For example, her signature online business building program, B - School, attracts a large percentage of women.

You go to school to learn, that is, to add building blocks of knowledge and skills.

Dig Deeper: How to Build a Culture of Employee Appreciation How to Create a Company Philosophy: School New Hires on Company History Even if you ask some pointed or provocative questions in the interview and get the answers you're looking for, your newest recruit isn't going to be integrated into the company culture on day one.

Presumably, these robots must be built in a way that they can withstand having cans of tomato soup thrown at them by high schoolers.

The organization has built schools in Kenya and Jamaica to provide education to underprivileged youth.

By introducing plant - based options through restaurants and catering companies, an entire office building, school, or hospital can drastically reduce meat consumption.

To build genuine loyalty — a customer base with intrinsic preference for your brand — retailers need to break with old - school tactics, realizing instead that earning consumer trust, preference and loyalty is a strategic initiative that goes far beyond points, coupons, discounts and mass - blasted emails.

Of the nine winners who did report challenges building their startups because of student - loan debt, only three left school owing more than $ 35,000, the average amount for class of 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.com.

A Stanford Business school professor, Sutton has built up a small cottage industry for himself by becoming the nation's go - to expert on, as he puts it, «a — holes.»

By the start of the following school year, Gillis was onto his next business plan, devoting his lunch and after - school hours building Bitness.

He was interested in doing more than just owning buildings; he graduated from Carleton University's School of Architecture in 1997, at the age of 75, and later donated $ 5.5 million to the program.

We want to stand for education worldwide,» Evans said, and Oaktree has since built schools and teacher training facilities in countries such as South Africa, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.

This course from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is a five - week lesson that shows you how to correctly build an operation that is both stable and scalable.

Whether or not their homes were among the 2,400 buildings that have burned, residents who had been laid off or whose business was slow prior to the fire are likely to use the evacuation as their cue to start fresh somewhere else, says Joseph Doucet, dean of the University of Alberta School of Business.

«Tension can easily build up if both parties have different expectations of what acceptable standards are,» says Maria Rotundo, a professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management who has researched how appraisals can improve performance.

«This is not generating revenue that will go into building Canadian schools and hospitals,» Adshade says.

If you envision building an app or a business that is otherwise based on code, it would make sense for you to master the basics while you're in school.

«Strategic alliances are definitely becoming crucial in building businesses of all kinds and at an earlier stage than ever before,» says Gene Slowinski, director of strategic - alliance studies at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Management.

First, she built a prototype for a discipline - tracking tool because «that was a pain - point at Sci,» and the school offered to pay for the software once it was built.

What began as a film - production company blossomed into a full - fledged media organization, with a news platform, RYOT Films and RYOT Creative, which makes videos for paying clients as well as pro bono clients like Pencils of Promise, a nonprofit that builds schools.

The Alpina was built by Marcel Bach, a former farmer who capitalized on his land and now seems to own much of the village, and Jean - Claude Mimran, an agriculture billionaire who moved to Gstaad to be closer to his three sons who were attending Le Rosey, the until - recently Canadian - owned $ 100,000 - per - year private school that specializes in teaching kids how to be properly rich.

Its long - term goal, according to senior director of data science Jim Baer, is to build the «economic graph,» a totalizing representation of «every opportunity in the world, and every worker, every school, and every entity.»

In Atlanta, Georgia, North Atlanta High School moved to a new building in 2013.

Sometimes, says Howard Lin, a professor at Ryerson University's Ted Rogers School of Management, wading into foreign markets is the only way to build economies of scale large enough to sustain growth.

It would require transgender people to use bathrooms in public schools, government buildings and public universities based on «biological sex.»

The current dean at Yale's School of Managment, Sharon Oster, said in a statement: «I and the entire Yale SOM community are very grateful for this extraordinary gift, a gift which will greatly facilitate the construction of our spectacular new building.

Microsoft is providing consulting and technology to the new 180,000 - square - foot high school, which is being built by the School District of Philadelphia to serve 750 stuschool, which is being built by the School District of Philadelphia to serve 750 stuSchool District of Philadelphia to serve 750 students.

Practicing gratitude also allows people to build healthy relationships, better feel constructive and beneficial emotions, enjoy pleasant experiences, and even overcome challenges, says Harvard Medical School.

Indeed, everyone is invited to the DIY party, from elementary - school students building robotic arms to grandmothers sewing jackets with working LED movie displays using Flora, a wearable electronics platform with conductive threads and washable hardware.

Last week, Zeif tweeted a screenshot of text messages he and his younger brother, Matthew, sent to each other while both boys were inside the school building during the shooting.

There has to be way more tank - filling than tank - draining,» says Ruben Nieves, former Stanford University men's volleyball coach and current national director of training for the Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit organization based in Mountain View, Calif., that focuses on teaching and encouraging positive character - building in youth and high school sports.

«Most websites are built by technology folks and then you slap a design on top of it,» said Jeffrey Rubin, associate professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and CEO of SIDEARM Sports, a major provider of college athletic websites.

I have known Jamie for many years and have been impressed with his dynamism as he has ramped up his restaurant business and built his worldwide brand through his various TV shows, all the while pouring his efforts into teaching people to eat better, drawing public attention to the poor quality of school lunches, and developing Fifteen, his restaurant and social enterprise that trains unemployed young people to become professional chefs.

Advocacy groups such as Code NL are pushing for coding to be added to the high school curriculum, while organizations like Ladies Learning Code and Lighthouse Labs are building an alternate tech talent pipeline.

A Turkish company has run the Mogadishu port since 2014, while other Turkish firms have built roads, schools, and hospitals.

One such project is the Stinson School Lofts, a schoolhouse built in 1894.

«People study in school to get the degrees that will help them build a career, but then they don't study for the jobs themselves.»

I am working on building my third school with them.

Booth, a 1971 Chicago MBA, built his investment firm, Dimensional Fund Advisors on principles he learned from Eugene Fama at the school.

He and his business partner approached me and said, «Hey we want to build a website... and we want to have a slider on the homepage that has this information,» and then he showed me a flyer they hand out at schools to advertise their service.