National Engineering Design Challenge

这笔赠款用于通过与迪士尼发现杂志奖技术创新合作，为JETS国家工程设计挑战赛(NEDC)的组织和扩大提供一般支持。NEDC是一个全国性的项目，它为以团队形式工作的高中生提供实际的工程设计活动。全国获奖者将参加6月下旬举行的高知名度发现奖颁奖典礼，并在7月的《发现》杂志上刊登关于NEDC和喷气式飞机的整版广告。如果成功，增加的知名度将提高NEDC在其核心成员中的知名度，并有助于招募将在2000-2001学年参加该计划的教师、学生和工程导师。这将有助于解决NEDC的目标，即提高高中生对工程的兴趣，提高学生将科学和数学概念应用于实际问题的能力，通过与工程顾问的联系向学生提供有关工程的第一手知识，并提高公众对工程的兴趣

This grant provides for general support towards the organization and expansion of JETS National Engineering Design Challenge (NEDC) through the partnering with the Disney Discover Magazine Awards for Technological Innovation. NEDC is a national program, which provides an actual engineering design activity for high school students working in teams. The national winner will be participating in the highly visible Discover Awards ceremony in late June with a full-page ad on NEDC and JETS appearing in the July issue of Discover Magazine.If successful, the added visibility will increase the awareness of NEDC among its core constituents and help in the recruitment of teachers, students and engineering mentors who will participate in the program in the 2000-2001 school year. This will help address the goals of NEDC which are to increase interest in engineering among the high school student population, increase student ability to apply scientific and mathematical concepts to real problems, give students first hand knowledge about engineering through the link with the engineering advisor, and promote interest in engineering to the general public