San José State
University, and the Mineta Transportation Institute officially welcomed the first
class of the Summer Transportation Institute (STI) on July 1, 2002. The inaugural
year gave the opportunity for 18 students from Santa Clara County to explore
transportation careers in public policy, engineering, project management,
planning, and many other areas for four weeks this summer. The program had
two major components. First was a series of guest speakers' lectures and
workshops, which included hands-on activities.
The second component included practical experience including field trips
relevant to local and statewide transportation. This included a trip to the
state capital city of Sacramento. Two
days were spent taking surveys in both the local light rail system, and the
Caltrain. Students gathered
information, and later tallied and evaluated the surveys. The pictures
below are representative of their experiences from the four exciting weeks
spent at STI. On behalf of the
18 students I'd like to say that we feel the STI Program was an exceptional
success. Our many thanks to our teacher
Penny Donovan, and assistant Joel Columbero.
This program provided us with an introduction to the challenging
opportunities in the field of transportation.
Figure 1 - STI students Visit The Federal Express
Facility at San Francisco International Airport
Figure 2 - STI Students visit the construction site of
the new Carquinez Bridge
Figure 3 - STI Students visit the San Mateo County
Transit District
Figure
4 - STI students
visit the NASA Ames Research Center Participating Schools Academia Calmecac High School - San
Jose Downtown College Prep - San Jose El Portal Leadership Academy -
Gilroy Gunderson High School - San Jose Independence High School - San Jose Leland High School - San Jose Overfelt
High School - San Jose Palo Alto High School - Palo Alto
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