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The Garrett Morgan Sustainable Transportation for the 21^st Century Program is designed to increase middle school students’ awareness of transportation issues, interest them in careers in transportation, and motivate them to take the math and science classes in high school needed to prepare for management and engineering majors in college. This Mineta Transportation Institute program is a complementary element of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Garrett A. Morgan Technology and Transportation Futures Program.

Each year members of the MTI Board of Trustees sponsor middle school classes for a sustainable transportation study unit. The sponsoring agency contacts the school or teacher, arranges delivery of the student and teacher workbooks, and provides the videoconference facility.

The supplied curriculum, developed by faculty at San José State University ’s College of Education , includes a class or team project and culminates in a national videoconference competition featuring a welcome from the U.S. Transportation Secretary.

Each school participating in the videoconference makes a presentation about some facet of sustainable transportation. One presentation is chosen as the winner, and a student, parent, and teacher from that school receive an expense-paid trip to San Jose , CA for MTI’s annual scholarship awards banquet plus a check for $500 for the school. The teachers of all classes participating in the videoconference will receive a $50 gift certificate for office supplies upon submitting the post-conference evaluation form to MTI.

The videoconference is tentatively scheduled for March each year, based on the Secretary of Transportation’s schedule. The awards banquet is held in June.

For more information on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Garrett A. Morgan Technology and Transportation Futures Program and information about inventor Garrett Morgan, go to http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/education/ for the program and http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/education/gamorgan.htm for biographical information about Morgan himself.