Date posted: 04/23/2009*

Raytheon celebrated Math Awareness Month by awarding 150 middle school students with $1,000 scholarships they can use toward a math, science or technology camp or program this summer. Additionally, each student’s school receives a matching grant from Raytheon.

Each year Raytheon awards $1 million in scholarships and grants as part of its MathMovesU program, an initiative designed to engage middle school students in math and science through a variety of programs including contests, live events, scholarships, tutoring programs and more.

The 150 scholarship recipients were chosen from a pool of 1,662 middle school students who created multimedia presentations that illustrated the importance of math in their daily lives and answered the question: “How does math put the action in your passion?” Submissions were judged independently by Scholarship America.

Throughout April, Raytheon will announce additional scholarship winners and the company’s support of other math-related initiatives in honor of Math Awareness Month.

Read the full press release.