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Poland Shows Off Its Culture and Aviation Prowess to Students in GE Aerospace–Sponsored Program

Caroline Morris
July 18, 2023

This past May, 20 undergraduates from top American universities, half selected by GE Aerospace, headed off to visit Poland to get more familiar with the country’s huge economic potential, its culture, and its role in the region. GE Aerospace and the Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union, in cooperation with the Polish Presidential Palace, sponsored the 10-day Poland Immersion Trip. The trips began in 2017 and restarted again this year, the fourth excursion after a three-year break because of the COVID pandemic.

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Chef’s Whites to Factory Floor: GE Aerospace’s Apprenticeship Program Showed One Technician a New Career Path

Mary L. Dudy
July 05, 2023

Andrew Dubrule began his career as a chef. Armed with a culinary arts degree from the State University of New York at Cobleskill, he interned at the University of the Arts in Florence, Italy, and worked for years at restaurants in New York City. But when he and his wife decided to start a family, he had a change of heart. In 2019, Dubrule traded in the grueling hours and uncertain future of restaurant life for a job as a machine operator at GE Aerospace’s Rutland, Vermont, plant.

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General Electric joins the Renaissance Partners Program from Majarra

May 10, 2023

Majarra, a leading online Arabic content platform, has announced a partnership agreement with General Electric to join Majarra's “Renaissance Partners Program.” The Program enables institutions and businesses to play an active role in increasing access to the world of Arabic language knowledge, nurturing the youth of tomorrow. By providing free subscriptions to Majarra, GE is supporting the professional and personal development of the next generation of leaders in the region.

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More Than a Scavenger Hunt: GE Summer Camps Offer Young Girls a Window to Explore the STEM World

Caroline Morris
August 24, 2022
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More than a decade ago, then GE CEO Jeff Immelt worried about the lack of women in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, and math. So, along with other initiatives, GE divisions started running weeklong summer camps for young girls so they could explore the STEM world and maybe become inspired to enter it.

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Engineering The Future: GE Foundation Commits Up To $100 Million To Guide Diverse Kids to Engineering Careers

Amy Kover
April 26, 2021

Before Elizabeth Ivy Johnson interned at NASA’s High School Apprenticeship Research Program, at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, the summer before her senior year in high school, she never had dreamed of becoming an engineer. She had contemplated becoming a lawyer or accountant — careers she had heard would give her financial stability. She didn’t know any engineers among her family or friends who lived in her Washington, D.C.-area neighborhood when she was growing up.

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GE Energy Consulting named to Forbes America’s Best Management Consulting Firms 2021 List

April 13, 2021

April 13, 2021 – Schenectady, NY – GE Energy Consulting has been recognized and named to the Forbes America’s Best Management Consulting Firms 2021 List. This prestigious award is presented by Forbes and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The awards list was announced on March 16, 2021 and can currently be viewed on the Forbes website.

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Talking About The Next Generation: Taking The Latest Tech To The Classroom

Liz Wishaw
September 13, 2019
Educator Jessica Hughes knew the girls in her classes were smart, but they were underperforming when it came to science and math. Her solution? A 3D-printing club that would inspire them to develop innovative solutions to problems like saving the coral reefs and creating a potential prosthetic limb for a classmate.
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How a Little Rice and a Lot of Reading is Supporting Literacy in ASEAN

May 29, 2019
This article was updated 12 July
Literacy is an essential foundation of an equitable society. It empowers individuals through education, enables them to learn, and provides an important route out of poverty. Yet according to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), there are still an estimated 750 million people around the world who lack basic literacy.  Organisations like the Wilson Global Initiative (WGI) are working to change that.
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Australia’s biggest 3D printing education program

Jane Nicholls
August 17, 2018
Additive manufacturing—3D printing to most of us—is changing the world one innovation at a time, and moving so fast that it’s a challenge for industry to keep up, let alone education curriculums, not renowned for their agility. It’s essential to foster a strong base of knowledge in 3D printing for the workforce of tomorrow, when being across basic design thinking, data analytics and coding will be considered as essential as reading, writing and arithmetic have been for previous generations.
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7 Ways GE Is Contributing To Indonesia’s Healthcare Industry

August 26, 2017
With the fourth largest population in the world and a growing economy with a rising middle class, Indonesia presents one of the fastest growing healthcare systems in the world.
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