Ingenicomm is committed to reaching out to the community in which we live and work, and to helping support those in need. Philanthropy is part of Ingenicomm’s broader efforts to be a good corporate citizen and neighbor. Corporate citizenship is knit into the fabric of our everyday work; from making conscientious business decisions to build products and provide services that foster the growth of science and technology, to caring for our customers, employees and neighbors, we feel a responsibility to help increase the well-being of humankind.
In 2010, we created a philanthropy program that allowed us to give 2% of our gross revenues to charitable causes in our community. We donated this amount to the Challenger Center for Space Science Foundation to further the advancement of space science and to promote student interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
In 2011, we sponsored a Space Day for students from Siena Academy, an elementary school in Great Falls, Virginia. The Ingenicomm Space Day included a training opportunity at the Challenger Learning Center at Howard B. Owens Science Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as well as a visit to the Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum in Dulles, Virginia. At the Challenger Learning Center, students had an opportunity to experience a simulated space flight; the program consisted of a pre-flight briefing, followed by a flight where students performed duties as both astronauts aboard the spacecraft and engineers at mission control. Student teams were required to communicate, cooperate, and collaborate to ensure that the mission objectives were attained. The popularity of this program among the students led Siena Academy to request that Ingenicomm plan another Ingenicomm Space Day in 2012.
Some comments from the students who participated in the Ingenicomm Space Day are below:
In 2010, we created a philanthropy program that allowed us to give 2% of our gross revenues to charitable causes in our community. We donated this amount to the Challenger Center for Space Science Foundation to further the advancement of space science and to promote student interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
In 2011, we sponsored a Space Day for students from Siena Academy, an elementary school in Great Falls, Virginia. The Ingenicomm Space Day included a training opportunity at the Challenger Learning Center at Howard B. Owens Science Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as well as a visit to the Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum in Dulles, Virginia. At the Challenger Learning Center, students had an opportunity to experience a simulated space flight; the program consisted of a pre-flight briefing, followed by a flight where students performed duties as both astronauts aboard the spacecraft and engineers at mission control. Student teams were required to communicate, cooperate, and collaborate to ensure that the mission objectives were attained. The popularity of this program among the students led Siena Academy to request that Ingenicomm plan another Ingenicomm Space Day in 2012.
Some comments from the students who participated in the Ingenicomm Space Day are below:
“Thank you for the wonderful time. I have learned so much from the experience that I think I am the luckiest kid in the world. Once again thank you.”
“Thank you for taking us to the space program. I really enjoyed it. I hope I can come again.”
“Thank you for sponsoring us and I hope we can do it again next year. I enjoyed being data communicator. See you soon again next year.”
“Thank you for taking our class on the trip to the amazing space program. I had lots of fun and I am sure my friends had fun too.”
“Thank you for taking us to the space program. I really enjoyed it. I hope I can come again.”
“Thank you for sponsoring us and I hope we can do it again next year. I enjoyed being data communicator. See you soon again next year.”
“Thank you for taking our class on the trip to the amazing space program. I had lots of fun and I am sure my friends had fun too.”