Twenty-five schools in the Washington region are receivinggrantsfrom Amazon to expand computer-science opportunities and start robotics clubs in low-income and underserved communities. The schools—including 13 in the District, six in Alexandria and four in Arlington in Northern Virginia, and two in Prince George’s County in Maryland — were among 100 schools near Amazon sites that received money from the online retailbehemoth.
华盛顿地区的25所学校正在接受亚马逊的资助以增强计算机科学的学科实力，并在低收入和服务不足的社区开办机器人俱乐部。这些学校——包括该地区的13所，亚历山大的6所，北弗吉尼亚阿灵顿的4所，马里兰乔治王子郡的2所——都是亚马逊公司附近的100所学校之一，这些学校从网上零售巨头那里得到了资金支持。
Alexandria Schools Superintendent Gregory C. Hutchings Jr.annou-nced the award Wednesday to a classroom of students at Cora Kelly School for Math, Science and Technology. School system officialsheraldedthe grant, which also covers professional development for educators, as a way to boost participation in advanced science classes and bring more opportunities to students who might not otherwise have access to them. “People believe in all of you to make sure that you have the experiences that you need to go out in this world andthrive,” Hutchings told the youngsters. “We want to have apipelinethat goes from elementary to middle into our high school out into a career or a college.”
亚历山大学院校长Gregory C. Hutchings Jr. 周三向Cora Kelly学院数学、科学、技术专业学生宣布了这一奖项。学院官员宣布，此项捐款还包括教育工作者的职业发展（资金），以此促进高级科学课程参与度，并为那些原本没有机会参加的学生提供更多机会。Hutchings对年轻人说：“我们相信你们，为的是确保你们拥有走向世界并茁壮成长的经验。我们希望造一条从小学到初中到高中到大学或职业生涯的直达道路。”
Schools in 21 states, including California, Texas and New Jersey, were grant recipients. About half the schools that received the award, including several in the District, belong toKIPP, the country’s largest charter school network. The grant was available to schools near Amazon sites that participate in the federal govern-
ment’s Title I program, which provides extra funding to schools that educate a high percentage of students from low-income families.
包括加利福尼亚、德克萨斯、新泽西在内的21个州的学校都是助学金获得者。包括该地区几所学校在内的获奖学校中，约一半属于全国最大的特批学校网络KIPP项目。这笔资助金用于亚马逊公司附近参加联邦政府一级项目的学校, 该项目为低收入家庭学生比例较高的学校提供额外资金。
At Cora Kelly, 78 percent of students are considered economically disadvantaged, state data show. Sixty-eight percent of students are Hispanic and 19 percent are black, two groups that
have historically been underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, widely known as STEM. The Amazon Future Engineer Robotics Grant covers the costs ofregistrationto start a robotics club with FIRST, a groupdedicatedto boosting STEM education and that hosts robotics competitions. Schools will receive an additional $10,000 designated for expanding computer-science education.
州数据显示，在CoraKelly，78%的学生被划归“经济条件欠佳”；68%的学生是西班牙人；19%是黑人。而这两格群体历来在科学、技术、工程和数学（即众所周知的STEM）领域鲜有建树。亚马逊未来工程师机器人补助金涵盖了注册成立机器人俱乐部的费用，启动团队致力于促进高STEM教育并增加机器人竞赛数量。学校将额外获得1万美元用于扩大计算机科学教育规模。
--Source: Bloomberg
--文章来源：《彭博商业周刊》
grant
n.拨款，补助金
behemoth
n.巨兽，庞然大物
herald
v.传达，预示，预告
thrive
v.茁壮成长，兴盛
pipeline
n.管道，渠道；v.运输
registration
n.登记，注册
dedicate
v.奉献，致力
About half the schools that received the award, including several in the District, belong to KIPP, the country’s largest charter school network.
1.主句“About half the schools that received the award belong to KIPP”；
2.including伴随状语，修饰得到资助金的学校；
3.“the country’s largest charter school network”是KIPP的同位语，进一步解释说明KIPP是什么。
School system officials heralded the grant, which also covers professional development for educators, as a way to boost participation in advanced science classes and bring more opportunities to students who might not otherwise have access to them.
1.“which also covers professional development for educators”是由which引导的非限定性定语从句，修饰grant资助金；
2.“boost participation in advanced science classes”和“bring more opportunities to students who might not otherwise have access to them”为and连接的并列结构，其中后半句包含了who引导的定语从句，修饰students。
KIPP ：该项目是美国一个自由,开放招生的全国统一网络。是一种大学预科公立学校,对生活在社区不完善的地区的学生跟踪记录他们的成功和生活。目前有99所KIPP学校在20个州,在哥伦比亚特区更是有超过26,000名学生。KIPP建立了家长、学生和老师之间的伙伴关系，学习放在首位，通过提供出色的教育者,增加学生在校学习时间和文化成就帮助所有的学生考上大学并完成学业。
STEM是科学（Science），技术（Technology），工程（Engineering），数学（Mathematics）四门学科英文首字母的缩写，其中科学在于认识世界、解释自然界的客观规律；技术和工程则是在尊重自然规律的基础上改造世界、实现对自然界的控制和利用、解决社会发展过程中遇到的难题；数学则作为技术与工程学科的基础工具。
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