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TCS holds camp in US for science maths students

India's leading IT services, Tata Consultancy Services, held its goIT summer camp programme in the Cincinnati area exposing students to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related career paths. The fifth annual three-day camp providing hands on activities and projects that increase exposure to industry specific technologies, culminated with a competition at TCS' largest ...
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WASHINGTON -- Houston's Astrodome stadium, New York's old Pan Am Worldport Terminal at Kennedy Airport and Montana's one-room schoolhouses are joining a list of the nation's most endangered historic places.On Wednesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is releasing its listing of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. It includes sites from Maine to ...
Trio charged with enslaving disabled Ohio mom and her 5-year-old child

Ashland City police Lt. Joel Icenhour answers questions during a news-conference Tuesday, June 18, 2013, in Cleveland. Authorities in Ohio have arrested three people on charges of enslaving a mentally disabled young mother and her daughter over a two-year period. Federal agents and Ashland police said Tuesday the trio forced the woman to do housework, threatened her and the girl with violence ...
Reds turn to Arroyo to continue quality start streak

Of the five pitchers the Pirates broke Spring Training with in late March, Jeff Locke is the only remaining right now. Because of injuries to A.J. Burnett, Wandy Rodriguez and James McDonald, the rotation has seen a major overhaul since the beginning of the season. But Locke, the No. 5 starter when the year began, has been as reliable as they come. Locke will put his 6-1 record and 2.19 ERA on ...
Picturesque Ohio village on endangered places list

CINCINNATI (AP) -- A national preservation group on Wednesday named a picturesque Ohio village as one of the nation's most endangered historic places and is calling on state authorities to scrap a plan that village leaders and preservations say could permanently scar the ...

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Freed Ohio mum daughter doing well

A MENTALLY disabled woman and her daughter are doing well after they were freed in October following two years in captivity and after police investigated an abuse allegation one of the suspects made against her, authorities ...
Clevelands Guardian Angels push for missing child awareness

CLEVELAND -- Their red berets are instantly recognizable, especially after the international news stories on the homecomings of Gina, Michelle and Amanda. The Guardian Angels are an all-volunteer group, started in New York in 1979. The Cleveland chapter has 27 members, and plays a role in keeping missing persons cases in the public's mind, and has done so for many years. The members are ...
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Retail workers are part of a growing push to stop an underground crime ring. Authorities say organized retail crime costs the United States an estimated $30 billion a year.Organized retail criminals steal large quantities of popular name brand items like Similac, Tide, Gillette and Red Bull.Kroger Spokesperson Jackie Siekmann said these criminals do their homework. "They know where the ...
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Disabled Ohio woman daughter held captive in horrid conditions

Jessica L. Hunt, Jordie L. Callahan and Daniel Brown were arrested on charges of enslaving a mentally disabled young mother and her daughter over a two-year period. Federal agents and Ashland police said on June 18, the trio forced the woman to do housework, threatened her and the girl with violence and fed their pets better than the ...

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TCS holds camp in US for science, maths students

India's leading IT services, Tata Consultancy Services, held its goIT summer camp programme in the Cincinnati area exposing students to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related career paths.

The fifth annual three-day camp providing hands on activities and projects that increase exposure to industry specific technologies, culminated with a competition at TCS' largest North American software delivery centre in Milford, Ohio.

Free for all students, the TCS goIT programme provides in-school IT career awareness workshops and hands-on technology education, according to a media release.

Since its inception, the programme has reached more than 7,000 students across 35 school districts in Ohio and Michigan.

"We believe that TCS is uniquely positioned to use its core IT competencies and technology leadership to address the STEM education issue," said Amar Naga, director of operations, TCS.

"The innovative goIT programme is an outstanding investment by TCS in young Ohioans," said Mark Patton, JobsOhio Managing Director for Information Technology.

By 2018, research shows that STEM occupations are projected to grow by 17 percent, with 71 percent of STEM jobs focused on computing including cloud, data, app and security. ...