Clark Atlanta University Provides Students Opportunity to Learn About the Industry

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On June 28 and 29, 2011 Clark Atlanta University hosted a High School Summer Institute. The goal of this program is to train and promote energy science and engineering, multi-disciplinary education and research among high school students. During the program, the students were introduced to areas of alternative and renewable energy, recycling, conservation, weatherization, enabling technologies and training.

TAPPI was asked to help them to promote the pulp, paper, and packaging industries. As always, our industry stepped up to the plate. Mr. Bill Bohn, Area Vice President, North America, Fiber Business Line, from Metso kindly agreed to speak to the students about the industry. Caraustar in Austell, Georgia provided a mill tour thanks to Rob Maino, General Manager of Austell Mill One & Two.

Veda Chandler, who coordinated the event for Clark said, "Everything worked out perfectly! The speaker did a wonderful job during the lecture, and the tour went GREAT!!! The students had no idea how the products were made, so being able to hear about the process, followed by the mill tour and actually seeing the process up close really sparked their interest."

Clark Atlanta University currently has a dual degree program with the Georgia Institute of Technology in Chemical Engineering. This program can be designated as a chemical engineering degree with a certificate in paper. For more information on this program please contact David Bell, V.P. Corporate Relations, dbell@tappi.org.