Five new sponsors add their support to the academic excellence of INTEC
Santo Domingo.- Five recognized companies and a new family recently joined the collaborators that provide support to the INTEC Program with Outstanding Students (PIES), an initiative through which 24 has been sponsoring the university study of young people from high schools and high schools throughout the country, which accumulate high academic rates, regardless of their social status.
The Electricity Company of San Pedro de Macorís (CESPM), Esso Dominican Republic, the Orange Dominican Foundation, the Dominican Electronic Market (MED) and the Báez Erazo family that sponsors the Melba Báez Teacher of Erazo Scholarship for the Mathematics race, support For the first time, the costs of the career of new INTEC students, one for each entity.
With this support, eleven companies and institutions that finance the studies of a part of the baccalaureate 76 who start their careers this year, sponsored by INTEC and the traditional sponsors of the FTES: the Central Bank, the AES Dominicana Foundation, the Ramos Group, Philip Morris International, the Engineering Promotion of INTEC 1985 and the Kingsley Fernández family.
The AES Dominicana Foundation, sponsor of the PIES from 2008, reaffirmed its support for the program with the delivery of five new scholarships this year, adding a total of 20 students that to date have sponsored in the INTEC.
The PIES is the pioneer program in the Dominican Republic to support outstanding students and 8 of each 10 students of the program graduate with the highest academic honors. Since 1987 has awarded scholarships to 1,358 students and has awarded recognition to more than two thousand who have qualified in the test.
During the 24th PIES round of recognitions to outstanding students, held in the Auditorium of the San Pablo House, INTEC handed out certificates and certificates of recognition to young 79 who qualified in the program. Of those recognized in this release the 63% were women.
Roberto Herrera, General Manager of the Electricity Company of San Pedro de Macorís (CESPM) and of BasicRD, was the guest speaker of the event. The graduate in Economics has a Master in Business Administration, is also current president of the National Network of Business Support for Environmental Protection (RENAEPA).
Herrera also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce, director of the Association of Industries of the Dominican Republic and the Chamber of Commerce of Trinidad and Tobago, Treasurer of the Round Table of the Commonwealth Countries, Vice - Treasurer of the Symphony Foundation, Vice-President of the Board of Directors of Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos, Member of the Board of the Institute of Environmental Management and Vice-President of the Association of Graduates of the United Kingdom, all in the Dominican Republic.
María Eugenia Amorós Teijeiro, student of Psychology and Young National Talent 2010 (XXIII Round) gave the motivational speech for the new members of the program.
Results of the PIES tests
Of the 531 applications received this year, 326 students were evaluated and 89 selected, of which 76 pursue the career of their choice in this academic institution and the rest only opted for recognition.
22 of these young people have been sponsored directly by the Central Bank, five by the AES Dominicana Foundation, one by the ESSO Dominicana company, one by the Electricity Company of San Pedro de Macorís (CESPM), one by the Dominican Electronic Market (MED) ) and one by the Orange Dominicana Foundation. A scholarship is provided by the Erazo Báez family and Dr. Miguel J. Escala, INTEC graduates, in a gesture of contribution to future generations through the "Tendiendo puentes" initiative, which favors the direct support of graduates to students of the FEET.