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Each participating school offers the program for one hour a week. Roads, Rails and Race Cars after-school program, which since 2010 has engaged youth in 17 schools in seven cities across three states - Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin - and expanded their STEM learning opportunities outside the regular classroom. Students are eligible to participate in either program without regard to race, ethnicity, sex, tribal affiliation or other protected status. The second program encourages students enrolled at Nebraska Indian Community College or Little Priest Community College to pursue a STEM degree. One program is for undergraduate students from these institutions interested in pursuing graduate degrees. MATC Scholars Program, which brings together diverse faculty and students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Minority-Serving Institutions and Hispanic-Serving Institutions to encourage the students to pursue college degrees and teach them necessary skills to succeed in STEM fields. Students from Federal Region 7 high schools are eligible to participate in the academy regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, tribal affiliation or other protected status. The curriculum is developed by Native faculty, students and leaders from across the country. Sovereign Native Youth STEM Leadership Academy, a summer program that provides students with an extended learning opportunity in STEM subjects and helps them explore education and career options after high school. Other Mid-America Transportation Center programs, some of which have been in place for more than a decade, include:

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“This academy will prepare the next generation of commercial truck drivers and help fill the needs of Nebraska companies looking for drivers.” “NICC is located in one of the most economically depressed areas of Nebraska, so job creation is important,” Khattak said.

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Providing free training to the college’s students for the operation of both personal and commercial vehicles, Khattak said, will improve safety on the roadways and provide employment opportunities to the trainees.

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The grant will allow the center to expand its outreach and education programs, including a new safe driver academy in conjunction with Nebraska Indian Community College. We are going to focus on equity issues in transportation safety, but also look at issues that affect Region 7 in unique ways, such as climate change and supply chain vulnerability.” “It reflects our recognition that different population groups may be impacted in various ways by transportation safety improvements. “The Mid-America Transportation Center for Transportation Safety and Equity shows our emphasis on equity-related safety issues,” Khattak said. Other partner institutions are Nebraska Indian Community College, Missouri University of Science and Technology, the University of Iowa, University of Kansas and University of Missouri-St. Louis.Īemal Khattak, the center’s director and professor of civil and environmental engineering, said the grant title reflects not only a focus on transportation safety issues, but on equity in transportation safety. The center will receive $3 million per year for the next five years to improve transportation safety and equity. The congressionally mandated program has been in place since 1987 the Mid-America Transportation Center first won the competition in 1995 and again in 2006, 2011 and 2016. Department of Transportation through its University Transportation Centers program, which advances transportation research and technology, and develops the next generation of transportation professionals. This competitive grant is administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation Region 7, comprised of Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Mid-America Transportation Center has won a five-year, $15 million grant to remain the transportation research and workforce development hub for the U.S.