History
Established in 1977, Forum to Advance Minorities in Engineering Inc. (FAME) was formed by the DuPont Company to address the lack of Women, African American, Hispanic, and Native American engineers and scientist in the industry.
The program consists of a 4-6 week summer enrichment program, a school year extension and enrichment program on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month, college preparation seminars, test awareness programs and other special events and programs.
For nearly 35 years, FAME has served as a direct link for students to industry leaders. Our students enjoy such benefits as internships, scholarships, and rare opportunities to interact with top executives, engineers, scientist, and technology specialist working for Fortune 500 organizations. Many of the aforementioned professionals are FAME Alum.
Program objectives:
- Establish local action programs in support of the goal of the National Action Council on Minorities in Engineering (NACME). That goal is to increase the number of Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians and other underrepresented minorities on an educational path leading to a baccalaureate degree in engineering.
- Motivate students to pursue and succeed in science and math required for acceptance in colleges of engineering.
- Expose students to cultural, academic, and industrial environments.
- Provide minority engineering and technical role models
- Develop a broad-based, long-term community commitment.
Achievement
Since 1977 FAME has served more than 4000 students. More than 1000 students have successfully completed the program matriculating through from 7-12th grade. 99% of the students that complete the program go to college. 65% of FAME students pursue baccalaureate degrees in engineering or science related fields of study.