Time Warner Cable Supports Flagship Niagara Program
AKRON, OH (AUGUST 2011) – Time Warner Cable employees recently presented a $2,500 check to the Flagship Niagara’s "Time Warner Cable Science Consortium Voyage" program, which supports a three-week environment science course aboard the ship for college and high school students.
The course will trace the science, history and policy of the Great Lakes from Lake Erie to Lake Huron on to Georgian Bay. Students will experience each ecosystem first hand and will document their voyage through a combination of reflective and factual video and written blogs.
The customized course will focus on biology, ecology and natural history and is the collaboration of professors and students from:
Edinboro University - Edinboro, Pa
Allegheny College - Meadville, Pa
Lock Haven University - Lock Haven, Pa
Franklin and Marshall College - Lancaster, Pa
University of Connecticut - Avery Point, CT
Heidelberg University - Tiffin, Ohio
Walsh University - Canton, Ohio
Niagara University - Buffalo, NY
State University of New York College at Fredonia - Fredonia, NY
The Flagship Niagara is one of the nation's largest “tall ships” (198'). The ship is a reproduction of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship form the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. The ship was built in 1988 and is homeported at the Erie Maritime museum located in Erie, Pa. More information: http://flagshipniagara.org/flagship_niagara/index.htm
Time Warner Cable supports science, technology, engineering and math education through its Connect a Million Minds program. More information: www.connectamillionminds.com.
For more information on Time Warner Cable, please log onto www.timewarnercable.com. Members of the media can access Time Warner Cable Northeast Ohio Division’s online media center at http://www.timewarnercable.com/neowpa/newsroom/.
About Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is the second-largest cable operator in the U.S., with technologically advanced, well-clustered systems located in five geographic areas — New York State (including New York City), the Carolinas, Ohio, Southern California (including Los Angeles) and Texas. Time Warner Cable serves more than 14.7 million customers who subscribe to one or more of its video, high-speed data and voice services. Time Warner Cable Business Class offers a suite of phone, Internet, Ethernet and cable television services to businesses of all sizes. Time Warner Cable Media Sales, the advertising arm of Time Warner Cable, offers national, regional and local companies innovative advertising solutions that are targeted and affordable. More information about the services of Time Warner Cable is available at www.timewarnercable.com, www.twcbc.com and www.twcmediasales.com.
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Contact:
Travis Reynolds, Time Warner Cable, 330/572-4020 or travis.reynolds@twcable.com