LOS ANGELES, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Final preparations continue for the America’s largest solar-powered boat competition with 40 teams of high school students throughout Southern California entering the home stretch for three days of racing this weekend as part of Metropolitan Water District’s Solar Cup™. Beginning Friday (May 16), teams from high schools (see [...]
Bangkok, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 800,000 people took part in Habitat Youth BUILD activities. Spread across 11 countries in Asia, young people took action, raised money and increased awareness of the poverty housing situation in the region. “The support for Habitat Youth BUILD 2014 is amazing and inspiring. More than 800,000 young people [...]
MANCHESTER, N.H., April 27, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – This week, more than 12,000 students from around the globe traveled to St. Louis, Mo., to put their engineering skills to the test at the annual FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Championship, held at the Edward Jones Dome. The three-day event came down to a [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, April 23, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – In celebration of World Book Day, UNESCO, in coalition with Worldreader and Nokia, today released the results of the largest survey on mobile reading in the developing world, which revealed that mobile devices can help significantly enhance people’s literacy skills. According to the responses of nearly 5,000 people [...]
WASHINGTON, April 18, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – During this year’s “Be Kind to Animals Week®” (May 4-10), American Humane Association, the organization that helped found America’s original “Compassion Movement” in the 1870s is putting out an urgent plea to reach and enlist one million new advocates to help billions of animals facing the daunting challenges of [...]
World Cities Summit, Singapore International Water Week, and CleanEnviro Summit Singapore to drive innovation, co-creation, and sharing of solutions across urban development, water, and waste management in June Singapore, Apr 16, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Singapore is once again taking the lead to encourage governments and industry to come together to share and co-create solutions with [...]
DENVER, April 7, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Internet2 and Innova Inc., manufacturer of an all-electric micro vehicle, the Innova Dash, will debut a uniquely equipped University Electric Vehicle (UEV) during the Internet2 Global Summit, an international gathering of more than 800 advanced technology leaders from universities, research organizations, and industry. The UEV model represents a new [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–To help parents and students prepare financially for college, Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) launched the Get College ReadySM website, a new, interactive online platform that offers a quiz, a calculator, videos and educational articles. Wells Fargo created the Get College Ready website because next to financing a home, [...]
NEW YORK & NASHVILLE, Tenn. & BALTIMORE, April, 4, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–The American Institute of CPAs, the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) and Prometric are pleased to mark the 10th anniversary of computer-based testing (CBT) for the Uniform CPA Examination and note the continued enhancements and successful expansion of the test administration [...]
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. April, 4, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Bloomberg Businessweek ranked Wake Forest University’s Undergraduate Business program first in the nation for academic quality for the sixth consecutive year and 11th overall. “The Best Undergraduate Business Schools” ranking report was released on April 4th. The Wake Forest School of Business improved significantly in student satisfaction and recruiter sentiment to [...]