Volunteers from the company’s Cincinnati Technology Center in Ohio participated in the University of Cincinnati’s second annual Science and Engineering Expo.
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Describing Lyondell as "the company that never says ‘no’," Clear Creek Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Sandra Mossman recently awarded Lyondell Chemical Company its 2007 Business Partnership Award in recognition of the company’s exceptional support of the district through funding and volunteerism.
Lyondell volunteers got a glimpse of some of the best and brightest students in Texas when they judged the Texas State Envirothon Competition, North America's largest and most academically challenging high school environmental competition.
Employees at Lyondell’s Channelview, Texas complex collected school supplies for two near-by schools, Sheldon Elementary and Crenshaw Primary at the start of the school year.
The grant will fund the Lyondell Living Lab, a covered teaching platform that will stretch over a pond rich with plants and animals. It will serve as the host site for workshops and school field trips, and give children easier and safer access to the pond.
Approximately 20 ninth grade students from Calallen High School participated in Junior Achievement's Groundhog Job Shadow Day at Lyondell's Corpus Christi, Texas plant.
Employees at the Victoria, Texas, plant are pitching in to support the Bloomington Independent School District (BISD) located south of the plant. Employees collected approximately $500 in school supplies for students, and Lyondell donated additional funds to Bloomington High School to help the school further develop its outdoor learning center.
More than 50 Lyondell volunteers from plants throughout the Houston, Texas, area judged some 1,000 projects during the Science Engineering Fair of Houston (SEFH) this year. Lyondell also sponsored the chemistry division of the science fair.
Lyondell teamed with Larry Dierker, the legendary Houston Astros player, manager and commentator, to pitch efforts to improve literacy in the Houston area.
Lyondell’s Clinton, Iowa, plant is one of the sponsoring organizations for Clinton County Enviro Kids, an environmental educational program for area students in grades three through five. The program provides opportunities for these students to learn firsthand about a range of environmental issues.
The Bayport Choate plant recently donated a $3,000 grant to the YMCA E.A. Smith Branch in Webster, Texas, to help fund an after-school tutoring program at the center.
Lyondell’s Cincinnati Technology Center partnered with the parent-teacher organizations at Mason Heights, Mason Intermediate and Western Row schools for their fourth annual Mason Math and Science Night, providing some 500 students and their parents with an assigned reconnaissance mission.
Twenty third-grade teachers at Western Row Elementary School in Cincinnati, Ohio, were provided a one-hour workshop on motion and the forces affecting motion as part of the Cincinnati Technology Center’s Explore & Experiment science education program.
Explore & Experiment is a tool designed to improve science grade scores including TEKS-aligned activities for use in the classroom. Many of the teachers were pleased to learn that the Explore & Experiment program offers lesson plans for lower elementary grades.
Lyondell recently donated $4,500 to Markham Elementary School in Markham, Texas, for the purchase of computers for the school’s Learning Resource Center.
As part of National Chemistry Week, employees presented Lyondell's Explore & Experiment program at community events at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and the University of Saint Thomas.
Several Houston Refining employees recently enjoyed a morning of interacting with “future scientists” at Richey Elementary School in Pasadena, Texas. The employees were volunteer judges for the school’s Science Fair in which 75 third and fourth graders participated.
Female engineers and chemists from Lyondell told more than 300 students, teachers and parents about opportunities for women in the chemical industry from electrical engineering to plastics technology to accounting at the 2006 Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) Science and Mathematics Conference in Houston, Texas, in February.
Employees from Lyondell’s Fos-sur-Mer, France facility presented “hands-on” chemistry demonstrations to local students as part of the “La Chimie et nous” (“Chemistry and us”) exhibition in Marseille. The demonstrations were part of Lyondell’s popular “Explore and Experiment” series.
After spending most of the school year preparing for and finally taking the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) exams in April, students at Bingman Elementary were ready for some fun. And that’s exactly how they were rewarded at the Bingman TAKS Fun Day sponsored by the Beaumont plant.
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