Sentences with phrase «first pilot programs»

At the conference, InBloom, the new nonprofit focused on helping educators aggregate data, will provide the first demos of its platform, host codeathons and share insights from its first pilot programs with school districts.

The first pilot programs, which involved 150 bikes across four areas, launched a few years later.

After receiving approval from the Greenville County Schools administration, Urban and his school nutrition staff launched their first pilot program at Tanglewood Middle School on April 7, 2014.

The first pilot program will allow 2,000 undergraduate juniors who applied for early acceptance to the 2015 corps to take part in a year - long training program during their senior year.

The company launched its first pilot program earlier this year in Trujillo, Peru, welcoming a diverse range of people of all ages and occupations, all looking to contribute their skills to various community projects, while still working remotely.

On July 3, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that it had made selections of bidders in the first pilot program under its REO to Rental initiative.

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Along with Mayor Patricia Bates, he's helping spearhead a new initiative that will pay the ride - sharing behemoth up to $ 500,000 over the next year as part of a first - in - the - nation pilot program.

Archrival Alibaba was the first in China to pilot their Sesame Credit in 2015, was similarly reprimanded by the regulators in January for automatically enrolling users in its credit scoring program.

We also knew the program worked, because we already had a number of successful students from the pilots and first launch.

This is the story of Seattle - based employee Heather Palmer, who is the first participant in a pilot program that trains non-tech employees for tech roles.

So, it may be best to focus your content efforts on one audience first — ideally the one you need the most help engaging — and then incorporate other personas after your content marketing pilot program has found its footing.

Conceived as a pilot for up to six businesses, the program first targeted female entrepreneurs in Southwest Detroit, which has a large Mexican population.

Last year, the Creative Destruction Lab created a pilot of what is really the first - ever business program in machine learning.

With $ 1 million in funding from the tech industry — affiliated Economic - Security Project, the Stockton Economic - Empowerment Demonstration (SEED) will be the country's first municipal pilot program.

The pilot program is a first step in the FDA's reimagined digital health product oversight approach.

The FHA HAWK program is proposed as a four - year pilot, and will be available to U.S. home buyers on a first - come, first - served basis.

The pilot program has grown by 50 % in the past six months, with 52 businesses taking advantage of the free service for the first time.

Implementation of the second phase of the program will be approached in a similar way as the first phase (i.e., adding to the test already done with an extensive pilot test in real IKEA settings before it is presented and ready for implementation in all markets).

The first stores that implemented the program (in a pilot) more than two years ago have maintained their level of waste reduction in their operations, proving that these results are long - lasting.

The goal for the program is not only to be the pilot program for the rest of the schools in the community, but to provide a positive experience and hopefully lead some new golfers to The First Tee Tri - Valley chapter to continue the sport.

And finally, Joan Dickinson, a young and pretty mother, describes how it went when she was the first to take the program which combines a vacation with private pilot training.

The group developed the first set of national standards for birth centers, conducted a two - year pilot program to develop and test the optimum mechanism for evaluating the quality of birth centers, and consulted with the Commissioner on the JACHO (currently the Joint Commission) on the best structures for the CABC (www.birthcenteraccreditation.org/about-commission-accreditation-birth-centers, 2013).

A new shared services pilot program under way in Glencoe is on track to save taxpayers almost $ 100,000 in its first year of implementation by allowing village and park district employees to tread on each others» turf in doing their respective jobs, officials said.

Although salad bars and pilot programs, such as the First Lady's Go for the Gold campaign, are positive steps, they tend to mask the larger systemic problem, namely that children can't learn if school districts continue to serve sub-standard food, day in and day out.

Diane: I so appreciate your stopping by here to share the SNA perspective and I do hope you'll keep us abreast of the efforts to first run a pilot program.

This off - off - year election cycle presents the perfect opportunity to pilot such a program in at least VA and NJ, and in doing so, train the first set of new digital organizers with whom to rebuild the bench.

Tedisco and Larkin's legislation (A. 9774 / S.7626) sets aside 10 percent of the current Assembly Session Internship and Senate Student program positions for service - disabled veterans to apply to be part of this first - in - the - nation pilot initiative.

In April, he convened the State's first - ever Industrial Hemp Summit and announced that the State's Industrial Hemp Agricultural Research Pilot Program had filled its ten available research permits.

Starting March 22, 2018 the Erie County Department of Social Services is piloting extended business hours one night per week, on Thursdays, with first - floor services at 158 Pearl St. available to clients seeking assistance in the program areas of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and Temporary Assistancprogram areas of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and Temporary AssistancProgram) and Temporary Assistance (TA).

The budget provision, which first surfaced late Friday, would enact a pilot public campaign finance program limited to the comptroller's office.

He was the first and only candidate in the state to participate in a pilot program for the public financing of elections, which Mr. DiNapoli supports.

Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said that a similar policy will be implemented in Brooklyn and noted that, like Vance, he participates in in the Project Reset pilot program, a program in which 16 - and 17 - year - old first - time arrestees arrested for low - level offenses can participate in a counseling program.

In particular, the two asked the mayor make permanent the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, a first - of - its - kind pilot program launched almost three years ago to furnish all low - income immigrants fighting deportation with a lawyer.

Issue First - Ever Hemp Research Permits Previously, the state's Industrial Hemp Agricultural Research Pilot Program was limited to institutions of higher education.

Three Long Island schools were selected as among the best in two states — New York and Colorado — in a pilot program honoring campuses that «put students, not test scores, first.»

The towns of Boston and Evans will be the first towns to use a pilot version of this program with Columbia Law School.

New York state first launched its Industrial Hemp Pilot Research Program in 2014, according to the Press and Sun - Bulletin.

Mr. Bernardo in his UCIDA (Ulster County Industrial Development Agency) application promised 51 full time jobs (26 the first year and 25 the second year) to be maintained over ten years in return for a PILOT program (Payment In Lieu Of Taxes) which meant he avoided paying sales tax and a good amount of property and school taxes for ten years while we taxpayers picked up his tab.

The officials participated in the first harvest of Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Program's pilot Peconic Estuary Seaweed Aquaculture Feasibility Study, which is funded in part through Suffolk County.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration announced its first new substantive education policy in over a year and a half on Monday: a pilot program city officials hope will eventually be available citywide for three - year - olds to attend pre-Kindergarten programs, dubbed 3 - K for All.

First piloted in 2013, The AAAS - Lemelson Invention Ambassadors Program has built a community of Invention Ambassadors who are empowered to discuss the importance of invention in bettering our quality of life and building strong economies.

As with emission - trading programs elsewhere, polluters in China's pilots have two options: First, they can meet their targets by reducing their own emissions — by investing in energy efficiency, say, or curbing production.

Aiming to replicate his success in Scandinavia, McFarlane set up a small first - episode pilot program in Portland.

In its first round of funding for the PFF program, the NSF sought to reward institutions that already had pilot projects in place and allow them to» continue innovative work based on past achievements.»

This money will complement the annual budget of about $ 1 million FIRST gathered from the university and the integration of two already - funded pilot Ph.D. programs.

China, for one, last year rolled out its first natural disaster insurance program, with a southern Chinese coastal city, Shenzhen, being the first pilot region.

The Trust — named after the first female physics professor in the United Kingdom, who in 1986 established a pilot program upon which today's fellowship is modeled — has so far helped 298 researchers return to science after a career break of two or more years due to personal circumstances.

During our pilot program and subsequent first full year we have discovered three CCSNe and one candidate with projected nuclear offsets as small as 200 pc.

TLC's first project, which is also a pilot project of the TRND program, focuses on repurposing an existing small molecule drug, auranofin, initially approved to treat rheumatoid arthritis in the mid-1980s.

As Chase leaves behind his life as a fighter pilot to become the first candidate for the program, he finds his endurance, as well as his very identity, will be tested.