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BEAM’s Success is EPIC

BEAM Award Contingent BEAM contingent with EPIC award. (L to R): BEAM Board Member, GM Powertrain’s Miguel Antonetti; BEAM’s Finance VP, Carmen Vella, retired from GM Powertrain; BEAM Treasurer, Fisher Price’s Robert Tom; BEAM Marketing Chair, LPCiminelli’s Tyra Johnson; BEAM Executive Director Marilyn Helenbrook; BEAM Board President, Moog President Arthur McKinnon.

Buffalo-area Engineering Awareness for Minorities (BEAM) won a prestigious U.S. Department of Labor 2008 Exemplary Public Interest Contribution (EPIC) Award for promoting equal employment opportunity. BEAM’s Executive Director Marilyn Helenbrook accepted the award from Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao in Washington, D.C.

The affirmation of BEAM’s success comes after BEAM’s work with over 10,000 regional middle- and high school students, whose motivation to pursue science and engineering degrees and careers was encouraged through BEAM. BEAM graduates have become engineers and scientists in prominent places, including Fisher-Price, the National Aeronautic and Space Administration, and Northrup Grumman, among others.

UB Engineering headquarters and is an original founding partner of BEAM, which grew from a summer program initiated by CSEE’s George C. Lee, now SUNY Distinguished Professor. Fisher-Price, LPCiminelli, DuPont, General Motors, Moog and other corporations and engineering firms participate closely in BEAM. Funding for BEAM is made possible through the support of many.

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