About Honeywell Volunteers of Arizona
Special Features
Past Projects
JASON Project
Phoenix, March 5, 1999 - About 3,000 students throughout Maricopa County, including those in the Deer Valley, Paradise Valley, Glendale and Washington school districts, will traipse through the tropical rainforest of the Peruvian Amazon, the temperate rainforest of the Olympic Peninsula and a fossilized rainforest in Colorado, guided by some of the very scientists who know the areas the best. Read more...
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
Phoenix, Oct. 31, 1998 - Honeywell employees in the Valley joined thousands of other community members on Saturday. Oct. 31,
in walking to find a cure for Juvenile Diabetes. Honeywell was the corporate sponsor for the walk,
contributing $10,000. About 300 people raised about $31,000. In addition, Honeywell matched
50 cents for every dollar, bringing Honeywell's total to over $45,000 collected by employees. Read more...
FIRST
PHOENIX, FEB. 13 - Honeywell engineers and the students from Cortez High School are working together to build a robot in hopes of winning the national FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) competition in April. Honeywell is one of several official sponsors of the national competition.The Cortez team has invited Kingman, Queen Creek and Highland High Schools to a robo-athletes "scrimmage" before the national competition. The "Arizona FIRST Blowout" competition will be held on Monday, Feb. 16 at 10 a.m. in the Cortez High School gymnasium, located at 8828 N. 31st Ave.
After reaching third place for three straight years, the Honeywell/Cortez team will participate in the National Championship for the fourth time April 2- 4 at Disney World’s Epcot Center in Orlando, Fla. Read more...
Habitat for Humanity
PHOENIX, DEC. 11, 1998 "Home for the holidays" is an often-used phrase this time of year, calling up images of friends and family gathered together to celebrate old traditions and create new ones. But for one Valley family, that phrase will take on a very special meaning.Honeywell Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mike Bonsignore will fly to the Valley Dec. 18 and present what may be the best gift a young family could ever hope for: an actual home for the holidays.
The Vargas family will take ownership of a new house built by Honeywell volunteers during their personal time, a commitment that spanned some 1,950 hours over 10 short weeks since October. Read more...
Make a Difference Day
On Saturday, April 17, approximately 600 Honeywell volunteers will join with hundreds of Valley volunteers to work on more than 90 community service projects throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area.The Event: The Sixth Annual Make A Difference Day Arizona Serve-A-Thon.
WHO: Honeywell employees, their families and friends. Honeywell is the Title Sponsor for the event and has been each year since 1996.
WHAT: A day where hundreds of Honeywell employees will work with other Valley volunteers on community service projects such as painting and repairing low-income housing, sorting and packing food, cleaning alleys and painting over graffiti. In addition, participants will collect pledges for every hour they volunteer to raise money for Make A Difference, a year-round program that meets community needs through volunteer opportunities. Read more...
