MAEA Partners With Wheeling Jesuit University MBA Students

Minority Aviation Education Association Science Center will be partnering with MBA Students from Wheeling Jesuit University through internship program in support of SOS Campaign

WHEELING, WV (PRWEB) September 19, 2003 - September 17 2003- Minority Aviation Education Association, the preeminent science and math outreach company and the largest minority-owned and operated organization of its type in the country, announced today that it will be partnering with MBA Students from Wheeling Jesuit University through an internship program designed to support MAEA's SOS Campaign.

On Monday, September 15th MAEA President Darryl Lee Baynes met with Dr. John E. Mansuy, Associate Professor of Business, and Paul P. Ostasiewski, Assistant Professor of Business and Technology both from Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, WV. The Business Department of Wheeling Jesuit University will supply internships from their MBA students to write small business plans for MAEA to use in its Fund Raising efforts for the Science Center project.

MAEA has launched a fund-raising campaign to raise the capital necessary to complete the project. The SOS Campaign (The Gift of Science Offers Success Campaign for Institutional Advancement) intends to raise $12.5 million which will go towards lab development, an endowment fund and building the new facility. The business plans written by the MBA students will help solidify the fund-raising effort by providing key research and planning information for the various Science Center components.

ABOUT WHEELING JESUIT UNIVERSITY

Wheeling Jesuit University was founded in 1954 as one of America's 28 Jesuit institutions of higher learning. It is located less than an hour from Pittsburgh in one of the nation's safest cities where traditions of live music, culture, an excellent park system and a fascinating industrial heritage provide an uncommon background for academic pursuits.

The purpose of Jesuit education is to produce students who can contribute intelligently and effectively to the welfare of society because they are competent and virtuous. At Wheeling Jesuit, those educational traditions exist side-by-side with the energizing emergence of new learning technologies on a modern picturesque campus.

ABOUT MAEA

Minority Aviation Education Association Inc., best known as MAEA, is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to introducing minorities and women to science, math and technology. MAEA is the preeminent science and math outreach company and the largest minority-owned and operated organization of its type in the country.

MAEA was founded in 1992 by Darryl Lee Baynes in response to the under-representation of minorities and women in the field of aviation. This focus was later expanded to encompass science, math and technology based careers in response to the same concerns. The organization provides programs annually for more than 100,000 students, teachers and parents around the country.

Since our beginnings, MAEA has provided programs for more than a quarter of a million students, teachers and parents. MAEA is now poised to move beyond the classroom with the introduction of the MAEA Science Center featuring The Extended Classroom set to open in Wheeling, WV in the Spring of 2005. It will be the first and only minority-owned Science Center in the nation.

CONTACTS

MAEA
Darryl Lee Baynes, President
MAEA, Inc.
800-701-MAEA (6232)
info@maeasciencecenter.org
http://www.maeasciencecenter.org