Sentences with phrase «start as a pilot»

Google's Project Loon started as a pilot experiment in June 2013 and the company launched 30 balloons in New Zealand in coordination with local authorities.

Rep. Brian Higgins, a Buffalo Democrat, announced that the House had approved the Veteran's Access to Child Care Act, which makes permanent a program that started as a pilot program at the Buffalo VA in 2011 and that has since spread to VA facilities nationwide.

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

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.

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.

This could start as a pilot program similar to Duke Energy's pilot in North Carolina.

Not exact matches

IAG said on Thursday it had bought a 4.61 percent stake in Norwegian as a platform for starting talks, and that could lead to it making a full offer for the airline founded by former fighter pilot Bjorn Kjos.

The Irish airline said it would allow Britain's pilots» association to start negotiating on issues such as pay and holidays.

The prince started his new job Monday as an air ambulance pilot for East Anglian Air Ambulance, but he will donate his $ 62,000 a year salary to charity, according to an AFP report.

I started as an Air Force pilot.

It wasn't until they got back home, when they started reviewing the pictures, that they noticed a third unidentified aircraft that they described as a «triangular» object which appeared to be dogfighting the «Vipers» (as the F - 16s are dubbed within the fighter pilots community).

Prior to starting and leading technology companies, I spent close to nine years in the military as a helicopter pilot.

Y Combinator is certainly not the first to study basic income, and since it's just starting a pilot, we don't yet know how its work will lead to new or different findings than those uncovered by experiments in other places and times, such as those in Canada, the U.S., and India.

Many of those pilots recounted positive feelings, even as they started making dangerous mistakes.

So as you can imagine, I was pleased to see that Shell Oil (not the oil company we worked with) is starting a business center pilot project in Europe.

We start by hiring the right teammates through a rigorous process that includes numerous interviews, as well as pre-employment testing for our frontline teammates and our pilots.

Canada Student Grants and Loans has expanded eligibility for part time students, as well as full and part time students with children, and introduced a three - year pilot project that will provide adults returning to school on a full - time basis after several years in the workforce with an additional $ 1,600 in grant money starting Aug 1, 2018.

FICO, the company that created one of the most widely used credit - scoring systems in the U.S., recently announced it was starting a pilot program to increase the number of consumers who could be assigned a credit score based on alternative data, such as utility and phone bills.

After graduating with a degree in geology, Ted started his career as a pilot in the air force, and had the opportunity to do some international programs.

The Temecula Valley Balloon and Wine Festival, then known as the Rancho California Balloon and Wine Festival, was started in 1983 by Walt Darren, a commercial airline pilot and avid balloonist and by Evelyn Harker a veteran event organizer and fund raiser.

The Hokies» upcoming contest at home against Maryland just got a bit tougher, as starting cornerbacks Antone Exum and Kyle Fuller will both miss the game with injuries, via Andy Bitter of the Virginian - Pilot.

The program started as a small pilot and was evaluated along the way by the School of Applied Sciences.

Based on the published results, Legacy is now being pilot tested in a variety of community settings, such as the Administration for Children and Families» Early Head Start, Health Resources and Services Administration's Healthy Start, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration's Project LAUNCH, the American Academy of Pediatrics» pediatric primary care, and Tulsa Educare.

The book does contain a lot of implementation details like setting it up as a pilot or test to start out.

One of the five passengers on the doorless helicopter hovering high above Manhattan had just leaned back toward the pilot to snap a photograph of his feet dangling in midair — a coveted shot known on social media as a «shoe selfie» — when the trouble started.

The threat that the Families of Continental Flight 3407 worried about finally started to take shape, as a key senator — John Thune, a South Dakota Republican — said he would propose changes to the pilot experience requirements that the families fought to get enacted into law seven years ago.

«Stationary cameras also started off as a pilot program, and now people want more cameras and feel they're very effective,» she said.

In 1988, as Minister for Local Government, he had piloted the clause known as «Section 28» through the House of Commons, where I had just started work as a young reporter.

We're now pursuing funding to expand our testing with commercial pilot projects as well as start proving utility in greenhouse horticulture,» Begtrup commented.

The first phase of this project started in 2012 as a pilot study and was then published on the journal Prehospital Emergency Care (Spanish edition, 2014), and was presented in the 6th Annual UK Simulation in Nursing Education Conference at the Leeds Metropolitan University in 2012.

So, we took advantage of our greatest strength as a start - up and rapidly pursued this direction to generate striking pilot data results in Psoriasis.

So, we took advantage of our greatest strength as a start - up and rapidly pursued this direction to generate striking pilot data results in Psoriasis.

It started as a group of pilots with an idea.

Star Evan Rachel Wood has previously said that «the show might really start in season 2,» implying that the whole first season essentially served as the pilot for what Westworld would eventually become.

Though the mumbo - jumbo opening voiceover left me confused as to what Bradley Cooper's job is (he seems to have been an astronaut and Air Force pilot who's now a private contractor designated to help Bill Murray build rocket - launching platforms in Hawaii), «Aloha» starts off pretty swell.

Babylon started life earlier this year as a one - off pilot directed by Boyle; he has handed over the reins to another, but remains on board as co-creator, as does the ubiquitous James Nesbitt.

With Braff at the center, the pilot formerly known as Start Up was long considered a lock for ABC's schedule.

Well, the pilot suggests possibilities — mostly variations on buddy / cop shows where the partners start off not getting along but having chemistry — but despite the potential for clichés, the chemistry (there's that word again) between Morris Chestnut (as Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr.) and Jaina Lee Ortiz (as Detective Karissa Villa) may — I repeat, may — make up for its missteps while the show finds its rhythm.

The pilot centers on Seth Davenport, a man masquerading as a small - town Iowa preacher in the hope of starting a full - blown insurrection against the status quo.

Matt O'Leary and Jessica Cook star as caterers starting a budding business, and the first stretch of the movie feels like a lost, pre-Adam Scott Party Down pilot, as she angsts about finances, and he angsts about how he has the hots for her and she doesn't reciprocate.

We know that we as adults may not be great at designing tasks that are really clear for students and assess what we want to assess, so we'd start with small groups of students piloting our tasks and then based on their responses we get revised the tasks and re-pilot until we're happy with the tasks.

Across the pilot schools, teachers used the national curricula as a starting point to plan the use of digital materials.

As documented in this report, solutions to all policy barriers are not required before starting a pilot program.

Beginning next week, students in Dade County, Fla., public schools will start «logging on» microcomputers to solve geometry problems or to work on reading skills as part of a pilot program designed to acquaint students with computer technology and to supplement classroom instruction.

Under the proposal, school districts would be allowed to offer American Sign Language for credit starting in 1993, a] though some sign - language classes may be available next school year as part of a pilot project, according to Jackie Bumbalo, a special - education staff member in the...

The Teach For America regional office in Washington — where 15 TFA recruits will begin working in pre-K and Head Start classes in September — will serve as the pilot site for the initiative.

Wales welcomes Teach First Cymru - 32 participants will be teaching in schools across South Wales as part of a three year pilot starting in September 2013.

Convening and working with networks of schools and educators has been integral to CCE's work from the start, with projects ranging from the 20 + year old Boston Pilot School Network (now the Boston Autonomous Schools Network) to newer networks such as the Rhode Island Scaling Up Proficiency Based Graduation Network.

As the Public Impact team has worked with teachers on their pilot school design teams, we have seen how extending the reach of excellent teachers through Opportunity Culture models starts a virtuous cycle enabling increased teacher selectivity, opportunity, and higher pay — for all teachers.

The announcement of closures came two weeks after Gov. Ricardo Rossello signed a bill for implementing a charter schools pilot program in 10 percent of public schools and offering private school vouchers to 3 percent of students starting in 2019 - 2020 as part of an education overhaul.