Sentences with phrase «pilot program this year»

As you approach your pilot program this year, or your own 1:1 launch, keep in mind that you're giving students the best opportunity to learn in a dynamic, engaging environment.

Gazprombank deputy chairman Alexander Sobol said the bank may launch a pilot program this year, though it is early...

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In a pilot program with Mohawk College in Hamilton last year, Game - Based Learning boosted course completion rates by 25 %.

The billboard advertised the Start - up Visa Program, a five - year pilot to make the immigration process easier for foreign entrepreneurs.

Its one - year Safe City pilot program is testing out a range of advanced technologies in the hope of improving public safety.

Rates of employment and revenue growth were higher in the program's business «clusters» than in comparable numbers of unaffiliated businesses, according to analysis of the SBA's two - year pilot Regional Cluster Initiative.

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

Salesforce's experiences with Year Up encouraged the company to partner with Deloitte on a pilot program called Pathfinder, in Indiana, home of Salesforce's second - biggest hub.

That discretionary part of the budget has been squeezed over the past few years, while Republicans controlling Congress have largely ignored the ever - growing tide of automatic - pilot spending on benefit programs like food stamps, student loans, and Medicare.

It was initially structured as a two - year pilot program that limited when and where veterans could choose to see private doctors.

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.

Through our bank Virgin Money we took part in a pilot program last year, and are now launching our own delivery partner, Virgin StartUps, to help provide training and mentorship, as well as money.

And Fischer's bill would only allow for a two - year pilot program.

A handful of self - driving Volvo XC90 SUVs will be deployed as part of the pilot program later this month, with 100 expected by the end of the year.

We piloted a program called LearnStorm in the Bay Area [of California] last year and we're expanding it to three to five other areas this Spring.

«This year one of the things we're looking at is we are running two pilot programs,» House reportedly said in addressing the home affairs select committee about countering online recruiting of terrorists.

The three - year «access to capital» pilot program also includes a commitment to provide a grant of up to $ 750,000 to the Toronto Financial Services Alliance to promote awareness of alternative forms and sources of lending programs available to small businesses.

The pilot program for the 2015 - 2016 and 2016 - 2017 academic years seeks to support enhanced confidence with technology integration, facilitate the adoption of campus - wide technologies, such as Adobe Connect and Desire2Learn, while also encouraging exploration of learning technology solutions to classroom and department initiatives.

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

«We are encouraged by the performance of the pilot programs we tested last year in categories like women's shoes, fine jewelry, and furniture and mattresses,» CEO Jeff Gennette said in a statement.

Today, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross commended the innovative, two - year pilot program that grants partial management responsibility of the Gulf of Mexico red snapper...

I have been teaching entrepreneurship at Ohio State for several years and we are now piloting the program at this art school.

In recent years, tech leaders have funded major projects in the space: Y Combinator Research piloted a program in Oakland that gave people $ 1,500 a month for a year, and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is funding a project in Stockton for working individuals.

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 Government of British Columbia has extended the Export Navigator pilot program for another year to continue to help small businesses and entrepreneurs in rural regions get their goods and services to new international and interprovincial markets.

Last year, the Puerto Rican Treasury department launched an ambitious pilot program [fn1] under which it planned on auditing more than 40 tax - exempt organizations.

Interestingly, we had one aspect of your hypothetical answer here when our immigration department set up a community pilot program to trial the concept of advocating organisations sponsoring refugees to come here and the support them for a few years.

Le Pain Quotidien ran a pilot program in New York City last year certifying 43 of its restaurants as CO2 Neutral, a CO2logic initiative.

SPC is also taking Perfect Fruit, a fruit - based frozen dessert, into Japan, India and Indonesia with the support of Coca - Cola Amatil and CCA's biggest shareholder, The Coca - Cola Company, following successful pilot programs last year.

Several years ago, the Rainforest Alliance partnered with the local coffee cooperative UNECAFE (Unidad Ecológica para el Sector Café Oaxaqueño) to pilot a reforestation program with certified coffee farmers to restore degraded areas within and around coffee parcels.

In addition to the deal with China State Farm, SPC is taking Perfect Fruit, a fruit - based frozen dessert, into Japan, India and Indonesia with the support of Coca - Cola Amatil and CCA's biggest shareholder, The Coca - Cola Company, following successful pilot programs last year.

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.

More than three years after announcing an industry milestone of 99 % ethically sourced coffee, Starbucks has announced the launch of a pilot program with select coffee farmers in Costa Rica, Colombia, and Rwanda, aimed to demonstrate how technology and innovative data platforms can give coffee farmers even more financial empowerment and share real - time data along the journey of coffee beans within the supply chain.

He's a licensed pilot and a few years ago helped airlift children in need of medical care to treatment sites for Children's Flight of Hope, a nonprofit program based in Durham, N.C..

After four years in the Pilots» program, he was walking in the catacombs of Power Balance Pavilion after playing in the state final «'' the third time he's been able to experience such a walk, but the second time it's come following a loss.

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).

La Leche staff members hope the pilot program, which the organization will fund at about $ 7,500 a year, catches on at Amundsen and expands to include boys» classes before moving to other high schools.

He said the Village of Glencoe and the Glencoe Park District embarked on the one - year pilot program on March 1 to eliminate redundancies across the two organizations, while also achieving efficiencies.

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.

A full accounting of the overall financial impact during the one - year pilot program will commence in March next year and be furnished to the respective boards in the spring of 2013, Jones said.

Next year, she pointed out, Von Steuben will launch a pilot lunch program whose prospective menu features panini, tossed salads and dressings «using real olive oil every day.»

Mason Co. schools to offer free breakfast this year (July 22, 2011): A pilot breakfast program is launching in West Virginia — congratulations, Mason County Schools!

For Caryn Tatelli, whose 6 - year - old daughter, Susan, is among the Oak Terrace students coping with peanut allergies, the pilot program has proved its worth.

The report describes a two - year pilot program in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), which comprises 85 schools and 37,000 students.

But that study helped stimulate a similar three - year pilot program in 15 schools statewide by the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training program, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Preferred Meal Systems, which has a 40 - year relationship with CPS and had its $ 24 million food contract renewed in June, donated $ 150,000 to the district to help expand the pilot classroom breakfast program, according to company spokesman Ken Trantowski.

When the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom pilot program began in school year 2010 - 11, Dallas Independent School District (Dallas, TX) was one of the original districts to sign on and begin serving children breakfast - in - the - classroom.

After a successful pilot program last year, Alachua County Schools in Gainesville (FL) has added a food truck to their free summer meals program, bringing delicious options to neighborhoods in need over the summer months.

This is one of eight pilot programs around the country begun two years ago with a $ 700,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to the Bank Street College of Education, which directs and coordinates the program.

With the Chicago pilot program as its model, Kraft has committed to spend $ 4.5 million on 25 trucks that will work in six other cities in the next three years, including New York, San Antonio and Madison, Wis..