Sentences with phrase «piloted this year in»

During 2016 — 17, its pilot year in the New York Public Schools, the education program has become almost as successful as the play itself.
Recruitment is beginning for a pilot year in 2017/18 which will be restricted to London secondaries.
In South Africa, operating as AccessEd, it has completed a pilot year in 16 schools and two youth centres, with pupils aged about 13 to 15.
The Schools of Opportunity project, which was piloted this year in Colorado and New York, brings attention to schools that «actively and equitably promote the success of all students,» according to a press release that was published on the Washington Post Answer Sheet blog.
Following a pilot year in 2011, A.i.R Dubai was launched in 2012 opening the door for six artists and a curator interested in developing their practice and creating new work in the context of Dubai.

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For years, Canadian UAV companies have had an edge over their American rivals because our regulators have been more permissive in allowing drone flights, and don't require operators to have a pilot's licence — an expensive hurdle.
In a pilot program with Mohawk College in Hamilton last year, Game - Based Learning boosted course completion rates by 25 In a pilot program with Mohawk College in Hamilton last year, Game - Based Learning boosted course completion rates by 25 in Hamilton last year, Game - Based Learning boosted course completion rates by 25 %.
In 2010 and 2011, the cluster received a total of $ 1.2 million in grants from the SBA, and is one of seven to be selected for additional funding beyond the two - year pilot, receiving another $ 385,000 in 2012, with an option to renew that grant for another four yearIn 2010 and 2011, the cluster received a total of $ 1.2 million in grants from the SBA, and is one of seven to be selected for additional funding beyond the two - year pilot, receiving another $ 385,000 in 2012, with an option to renew that grant for another four yearin grants from the SBA, and is one of seven to be selected for additional funding beyond the two - year pilot, receiving another $ 385,000 in 2012, with an option to renew that grant for another four yearin 2012, with an option to renew that grant for another four years.
The pilot, in which Lyft users will be able to hail a self - driving car from the app, is expected to take place in Boston by the end of the year.
Date of birth: 05/27/64 Year he enlisted in the Army: 1983 Year he received his pilot's wings: 1994 Year he flew his first combat mission, in Kosovo: 1999 Year he completed the fighter weapons instructor course (a.k.a. the «Top Gun» course): 2000 Flying hours logged: More than 3,100
In fiscal year 2017, which ended in September, the shortage of pilots grew, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said during a press briefing on Thursday, speaking alongside GoldfeiIn fiscal year 2017, which ended in September, the shortage of pilots grew, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said during a press briefing on Thursday, speaking alongside Goldfeiin September, the shortage of pilots grew, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said during a press briefing on Thursday, speaking alongside Goldfein.
Wills is completely at home in this world: he worked for years as a bush pilot in northern Canada and later flew for Fed Ex.
The former publishing executive has emphasized innovation, rewarding investors with a 277 % increase in market capitalization in the five years she has piloted the carrier.
His six years as a commercial airline pilot instilled in him an unshakable discipline.
At the end of fiscal year 2016 in September that year, the Air Force had 1,555 fewer pilots than it needed, including 1,211 missing fighter pilots.
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.
Sappington plans multiple pilot tests to collect customer feedback, work out any kinks and streamline the integration with the company's existing technology systems before rolling out the finished app in nearly all 14,000 U.S. restaurants and some 6,000 others in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Australia and China, by the end of this year.
The union wants an average annual pay increase of 3.7 percent for 5,400 pilots in Germany over a five - year period from 2012.
Trump wants Congress to shell out $ 1.5 billion for his promised border wall with Mexico in the current fiscal year — enough for pilot projects to determine the best way to build it — and a further $ 2.6 billion in fiscal 2018.
He served in the Jordanian military for 35 years and became known as an elite helicopter pilot.
In 2009 he began a two - and - a-half year training course to become a fully operational, full - time Army Air Corps helicopter pilot.
Few of the people who apply to flying schools actually get in — Quebec schools, for instance, only train around 150 to 200 pilots a year, according to Service Canada.
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.
The latter two milestones were first set by former Air Force test pilot Joseph Kittinger in 1960, who served as Baumgartner's mentor throughout five years of meticulous preparation.
Cigna is testing the integration of «mental wellness» into medical care at doctors» offices in Denver, New Jersey and Virginia and plans to expand the pilot to ten office by the end of the year.
Last year, it abandoned a pilot in Canada of a computer system it hoped to transfer to the U.S. to make interacting with reps, including taking orders and paying commissions, smoother.
The other was the United States Navy, in which I was a carrier pilot for four years.
In a speech in Edinburgh this year, the Oscar - winner questioned the cost - effectiveness of the networks» reliance on expensive pilotIn a speech in Edinburgh this year, the Oscar - winner questioned the cost - effectiveness of the networks» reliance on expensive pilotin Edinburgh this year, the Oscar - winner questioned the cost - effectiveness of the networks» reliance on expensive pilots.
A doctor recommended that the German pilot who crashed a Germanwings jet into the Alps last year should be treated in a psychiatric hospital two weeks before the disaster, French investigators said on Sunday.
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.
Last month, the World Drone Prix — organized by the World Organization of Racing Drones and Sheikh Hamdan, crown prince of Dubai — handed out roughly $ 1 million in prizes, including a $ 250,000 grand prize to a 15 - year - old British pilot who bested 100 other competitors at a two - day event in Dubai.
For the second year in a row, Amazon is utilizing a crowdsourcing model to determine which of 10 series pilots currently available for live streaming will ultimately be given the green light.
As we reported here on Inc.com a few years back, Kiwi inventor and entrepreneur Glenn Martin has been tinkering with his design for a personal jetpack in his garage for more than 30 years, using his wife as a test pilot.
A few recent examples include Cornell, who came in from Sam's Club to run the American food business and left less than two years later for Target; John Compton, the former president, who left in 2012 for a short stint running Pilot Flying J but didn't return when it didn't work out; and Zein Abdalla, his replacement, who retired abruptly in December.
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.
I tried to describe to my brother, who was also a test pilot — we had the same astronaut training, I just happened to fly in space about two years before he did — and I tried to explain to him for a couple year, «Hey, this is what this is like.
Compenstion for pilots and flight engineers is highly dependent on experience — those in their late career can make around $ 140,000 a year, while entry - level employees only make about $ 40,000 a year, according to PayScale Canada.
«About a year and a half later, Channel 4 called me and said they were doing a show set in Chelsea, and they had two of the original cast which I'd had in my pilot,» Taylor said.
Sinnett, a pilot himself, plans to test the technology in a cockpit simulator this summer and «fly on an airplane next year some artificial intelligence that makes decisions that pilots would make,» he said.
Boeing is looking ahead to a brave new world where jetliners fly without pilots and aims to test some of the technology next year, the world's biggest plane maker said in a briefing ahead of the Paris Airshow.
Airlines are among those backing the idea, in part to deal with a projected need for 1.5 million pilots over the next 20 years as global demand for air travel continues to grow.
Prior to starting and leading technology companies, I spent close to nine years in the military as a helicopter pilot.
Just over two years later, with a half - hour Christmas special pilot, The Simpsons became the first prime - time animated sitcom since The Flintstones left the air in 1966.
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.
So much better, in fact, that they're planning to launch a pilot of a fully autonomous taxi service in Singapore later this year.
On Wednesday, Lending Loop, a peer - to - peer online lending platform for small - business loans, announced a pilot project in partnership with Ontario that will provide $ 3 - million of loans over the next two years.
Liveris, a 40 - year industry veteran, is exiting after piloting the merger of the United States» two largest chemical producers - Dupont and Dow - in a $ 130 billion deal last year.
$ 287.2 million over three years, starting in 2018 - 19, for a pilot project to facilitate adult - student access to student loans and grants.
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