Skills for Tomorrow High School Receives University Transportation Center Award

The Skills for Tomorrow High School in St. Paul, Minnesota was recently awarded a grant of $6,000 by the University Transportation Center of Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts to support the development of an 8-10-week curriculum that helps 9th and 10th graders discover the relationships between the economic, cultural, historical, and environmental dimensions of working rivers.

The project, entitled Skills for Tomorrow High School River Project, will enable students to use the Mississippi River, near St. Paul and Minneapolis, to explore the relationship of surface and water transportation – truck, rail and barge – with both natural and built environments.

Students will:

1. Examine how the river’s ecosystems and natural species have adapted to environmental changes related to transportation.
2. Study the impact of transportation on the water quality of the river by collecting and testing water samples along the river.
3. Seek to determine how the economy of the area is influenced by transportation and the role played by surface and water transportation in the origination of towns and cities along the upper Mississippi.

Teamsters Joint Council 32 in Minneapolis, Minnesota sponsors the Skills for Tomorrow Charter High School and won a Teamsters Skills For Tomorrow Project award in 2000.

Labor unions, educators and industry leaders, working together, can make a meaningful difference in the lives of the young people of our great nation. Educating young people about the critical role transportation plays in the health of the nation’s economy is important for the Teamsters Union.

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