Besides being one of the most innovative brazilian companies, Embraer* (Public, NYSE:ERJ) - Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. (Embraer) is also engaged in educational programs at the state of Sao Paulo. The College Engineer Juarez Wanderley (CEJW) is the newest Embraer innovation program, managing a school that is becoming reference in the social area.
Created four years ago, the Juarez Wanderley selects its 200 annual new students between the most applied pupils of the public schools of the region of Sao Jose dos Campos, where is the headquarters of Embraer. In the selection periods, an average of 27 candidates dispute each vacant.
Embraer has already invested US$ 13.5 million in its school. Each student costs US$ 450 dollars per month. In the public net of the state of São Paulo, the monthly average investment in each student is about US$ 88 dollars.
Currently the CEJW counts on 600 students, divided in Senior high school and high school, who are already atending on examinations and entering the bests brazilian universities. With the College Embraer aims at, beyond the high academic performance, the integral development of the personality of the students and the formation of its social conscience.
Also they prioritize Embraer values: the conscience of brazilian nationality, ethics, personal freedom and the commitment with the future of those citizens who will fly with their families and design the 21st century Embraer airplanes.
* Embraer-Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. (Embraer) is engaged in the manufacturing and sales of aircraft for commercial, business jet and defense purposes. The Company's aircrafts include EMB 120 Brasilia, a passenger aircraft; AM-X, a jet strike bomber, and ERJ 145 series, commercial aircrafts. Embraer also markets and sells the Legacy, a line of business jets. For the defense market, designs, develops, integrates and manufactures a wide range of defense products, principally transport, training, light attack and surveillance aircraft. (REUTERS)
Thursday, May 18, 2006
