Priority Academy
Priority Academy is a program that created in 2006 by Standand Chartered Bank, Priority Academy programmes include a “Shanghai Learning Tour”, a “Summer Banking Knowledge Internship Programme” and a “Studying in the United States Seminar”, which provides all-rounded educational experiences to youth on leadership training, financial planning and personal lives. The program is well known by donating $250000 to help Chan Yik Hei, a famous science amateur who won the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, on his studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Read more about Priority Academy: Shanghai Learning Tour, Summer Banking Knowledge Internship Programme
Famous quotes containing the words priority and/or academy:
“It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued that a society that neglects its children and robs them of their human potential can extinguish itself without an external enemy.”
—Selma Fraiberg (20th century)
“When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)