Denver students to work alongside United Airlines employees on nationwide 'Take Your Community to Work Day'.DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 1996--Checking in travelers at airport gates, sorting baggage, working with pilots and flight attendants -- these are a few of the jobs more than 280 students from four local youth and civic organizations and representing nine local schools will tackle as part of "Take Your Community to Work Day" at a number of United Airlines facilities in Denver Denver, city (1990 pop. 467,610), alt. 5,280 ft (1,609 m), state capital, coextensive with Denver co., N central Colo., on a plateau at the foot of the Front Range of the Rocky Mts., along the South Platte River where Cherry Creek meets it; inc. 1861. on March 6. United Airlines is the national sponsor for this workplace event aimed at providing students with positive role models and career choices. The program gives students a unique opportunity to spend a day working alongside airport and airline employees. "Take Your Community to Work Day reflects our corporate commitment to community service," says United Airlines Vice President-Mountain Region Roger Gibson. "We believe that participation in this program will enhance the lives of the students who participate and the lives of the United employee-owners who will spend time with them." Denver-area students participating in Take Your Community to Work Day will come from four local organizations: Colorado Colorado, state, United States Colorado (kŏlərăd`ə, –răd`ō, –rä`dō), state, W central United States, one of the Rocky Mt. states. Uplift, the Cherry Creek Cherry Creek may refer to:
educational program - a program for providing education , the Boy Scouts Boy Scouts, organization of boys 11 to 17 years old, founded (1907) in Great Britain by Sir Robert (later Lord) Baden-Powell. It was incorporated in 1910 in the United States, where its appearance was connected with earlier organizations—the Sons of Daniel Explorer Program
The Explorer program was the United States's first successful attempt to launch an artificial satellite. , and the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry. Their school grade levels range from 5th to 12th. They will gain hands-on hands-on adj. Involving active participation; applied, as opposed to theoretical: "We're involved in hands-on operations, pulling levers, pushing buttons" Arthur R. Taylor. airline experience in the following areas: o working with United employees at airport ticket counters and in gate areas; o learning how aircraft simulators work, how they are maintained, and how pilot training is developed; o working with pilots and flight attendants as they prepare for flights; o listening in on airline reservations calls; o working alongside computer software and hardware technicians, and alongside airline sales representatives. United Airlines' nationwide participation in Take Your Community to Work Day will involve thousands of students in more than 75 communities in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , and cities in Canada This is a list of incorporated cities of Canada in alphabetical order categorized by province. More thorough lists of communities are available for each province. Significant cities , Europe and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . (See attached list.) As the largest air carrier and the largest majority employee-owned company in the world, United Airlines operates more than 2,200 daily departures to 143 airports in 30 countries and three U.S. territories around the globe. United Airlines internet address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. is http://www.ual.com -0-
TAKE YOUR COMMUNITY TO WORK DAY - MARCH 6, 1996
PARTICIPATING COMMUNITIES
EAST CENTRAL MOUNTAIN WEST
Albany, NY Cedar Rapids, IA Albuquerque, NM Anchorage, AK
Allentown, PA Chicago, IL Boise, ID Eugene, OR
Atlanta, GA Cleveland, OH Colorado Springs Honolulu, HA
Birmingham, AL Columbus, OH Denver, CO Las Vegas, NV
Boston, MA Dallas/Ft. Worth Phoenix, AZ Los Angeles, CA
Buffalo, NY Dayton, OH Salt Lake City Medford, CA
Burlington, VT Des Moines, IA Monterey, CA
Charlotte, NC Des Plaines, IL INTERNATIONAL Oakland, CA
Ft. Lauderdale Detroit, MI London, England Portland, OR
Fort Myers, FL Elk Grove, IL Paris, France Reno/Lake Tahoe
Greensboro, NC Grand Rapids, MI Rio de Janeiro Sacramento, CA
Harrisburg, PA Houston, TX Toronto, Canada San Diego, CA
Jacksonville, FL Indianapolis, IN Vancouver, Can. San Francisco, CA
New York, NY Kansas City, MO San Jose, CA
Newark, NJ Knoxville, TN Santa Barbara, CA
Norfolk, VA Lincoln, NE Seattle, WA
Orlando, FL Memphis, TN Spokane, WA
Raleigh, NC Milwaukee, WI
Richmond, VA Nashville, TN
St. Louis, MO
Tampa, FL Omaha, NE San Antonio, TX
Washington, DC Rockford, IL
Tulsa, OK
West Palm Beach Saginaw, MI
Wichita, KS
NOTE: The internet address in this release contains a double slash after "http:" This symbol may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: United Airlines Denver-Christin Crampton, 303/292-6655 Chicago-Tony Molinaro, 847/952-4971 Night/Weekend, 847/952-4088 |
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