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It’s fashionable to be green, according to the Grand Prize winners of the 11th annual Lexus Eco Challenge competition. By creating jewelry and homemade candles from reusable materials, these students found creative ways to take their passion in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to a whole new level. More…
A short video message from teens to their peers to encourage safe driving habits might be all that is needed to avoid dangerous driving situations. That is the premise behind the Toyota TeenDrive365 Video Challenge, which drew more than 1,300 entries from students across the country. Toyota (No. 34 on…
In the United States, every day more than 10,000 adults turn 65, and one in six struggles with hunger. In the Dallas-Fort Worth Metro area, which has the 10th largest senior population in the U.S., 9% of seniors live below the poverty line and nearly 25,000 households headed by seniors…
Toyota Motor North America is No. 34 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list Toyota Research Institute (TRI) will show its next-generation automated driving research vehicle, Platform 3.0, at CESnext week in Las Vegas. The new platform, which is built on a Lexus LS 600hL, combines greater technological capabilities with…
Toyota Motor North America is No. 34 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list Four months after Hurricane Harvey made landfall, the streets in Houston are still littered with signs of the historic storm’s destructive force: drywall stacked up on curbs, children’s toys mangled and water damaged, a favorite couch…
Toyota Motor Corporation (No. 34 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list)announced Nov. 16 it has entered into an agreement with Special Olympics International to become a Global Partner. The announcement was marked by a signing ceremony at the Tokyo office of Toyota, attended by Special Olympics Chairman, Timothy Shriver,…
Toyota Motor North America is No. 32 on the 2017 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list. Mary Andrews isn’t sitting still in retirement. On the contrary, she’s building on her 40-year teaching career by expanding family literacy programs throughout the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, community to serve more vulnerable…
By 2020, there will be 1.4 million jobs available in computing related fields. Graduates in the United States are on track to fill 29 percent of thosejobs. Women are on track to fill just 3 percent. These estimates are according to Girls Who Code, a non-profit organization founded by Reshma…
“What is needed, when it’s needed, in the right quantity.” There’s a lot more to the Toyota Production System (TPS) (No. 34 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) than that, but that simple statement is the foundation of the “just in time” concept (definition below). If it works for…
Students, mentors and civic stakeholders tour Toyota Bodine Aluminum on Oct. 7, 2016, National Manufacturing Day. What do you get when you engage 60 students, mentors, civic stakeholders and manufacturers A recipe to inspire the next generation of manufacturers. That’s what Manufacturing Day is all about. More than 2,300 manufacturers…
