CN Youth Transportation Institute Set for July 12-23
For release: July 9, 2004
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

More than 50 middle school students and teachers will explore the transportation industry from the inside July 12-23 during the CN Summer Youth Transportation Institute at the University of Memphis.

Now in its second year, CNYTI introduces students to the relationships between science, math, and engineering in school, as well as to careers in the transportation industry. The two-week program will include field trips to transportation centers such as CN and FedEx, daily engineering design competitions, and hands-on scientific experiments and simulations.

Activities will run from 8 a.m. to noon at the Herff College of Engineering on the U of M campus.

The program is funded by CN, the Canadian National Railway Company. CN is one of the largest railroads in North America, spanning Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico. It employs more than 450 people in Memphis.

For more information, call 678-5282 or go online to www.ce.memphis.edu/cnyti.

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