Steering minority students toward transportation at Lincoln University

While many young people embraced sports or arts and crafts this summer, one group spent its days in math and science classes or on field trips to such places as a helicopter museum and a highway research center.

For four weeks, 20 youths ages 12 to 14 participated in the Summer Transportation Institute at Lincoln University, a program designed to interest minority students in careers in transportation.

“The goal is to make sure to expose them to all modes of transportation – land, water, or air,” said Robert Allen, a Lincoln professor who has run the courses there for six years.

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