Apangea Learning Announces First Annual Intern Award
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ — Apangea Learning, a leading provider of cost-effective differentiated math instruction, announced today the winner of its First Annual Apangea Learning Intern Award.
Shane Sewall is the first recipient to win this award. He was an intern for Apangea Learning during his senior year at Northside Urban Pathways Charter School (NUP) for the 2006-2007 school year. Today, he is a freshman at Kent State University and is the first and only of his family or friends to attend college.
“Being the CEO of a high growth company, I am very aware of how important each employee, including our interns, is to the over all success of Apangea Learning,” explained Apangea Learning CEO Louis Piconi. “Shane is a very hardworking and extremely dedicated young man. There was no doubt that he should be the recipient for our First Annual Apangea Learning Intern Award.”
Headquartered in downtown Pittsburgh, Apangea Learning’s internship program exclusively recruits from inner-city high schools. This program is designed to expose urban youths to a business environment in hopes that this experience creates a bridge that leads them from high school to college and beyond.
“Many students growing up in an urban environment face numerous challenges on a daily basis that most of us in the business world can’t begin to comprehend,” expressed Piconi. “Our internship program helps these kids understand why it so important to continue their education and how it will vastly expand the opportunities they have in life.”
About Apangea Learning: Apangea Learning is setting a new standard in the way students learn. The company’s groundbreaking SmartHelp tutoring solution enables students to dramatically improve achievement, at the most cost- effective price. SmartHelp provides differentiated instruction for every student via a unique integration of its intelligent tutoring system and live one-on-one human tutors. It utilizes innovative Web-based technology that engages students and teaches fundamental problem-solving skills. Apangea Learning’s solutions are based on one of the world’s largest bodies of cognitive research. Visit Apangea Learning on the Web at http://www.apangealearning.com/.
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