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Diversity
SHA's
work force reflects the rich diversity of the ever changing communities
and customers we serve.
SHA is committed
to recruit, hire, promote and retain a highly qualified work force
that is diverse in nature. Our goal is to provide employees with
opportunities, programs and support systems for success at all levels.
Community Involvement
Student
Engineers
SHA
enjoys a good relationship with the communities we serve across
Maryland. The TRansportation and Civil Engineering (TRAC) program,
sponsored by SHA, the American Association of State Highway and
Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and a number of public and private
organizations; allows high school students to use math and science
to solve real world problems. The program sends teams of civil engineers,
many from the transportation field, into high schools with a computer,
electronic probes, lab equipment and more than 30 hands-on activities
in a "TRAC PAC." Teachers can illustrate real world applications
to academic concepts as part of science, algebra, geometry, trigonometry,
calculus, history and environmental studies curriculum.
Planting
SHA
works in cooperation with numerous communities in Maryland, through
the Cloverleaf Program to landscape highways and entrances into
towns and neighborhoods. SHA employees and volunteer community groups
assist with the installation of tress, shrubs and flowers. Our goal
is to beautify and enhance the appearance of our state highways.
Adopt-A-Highway
SHA
provides an opportunity for volunteers of numerous communities,
civic, family and business groups to become involved in the improvement
of our environment by helping to keep Maryland State Highways litter
free.
The Adopt-A-Highway
groups agree to pick-up litter along two-mile stretch of roadway
for a two year period (four pick-ups per year).
SHA provides
the groups with safety information, vests, hats, metal road sign
(with name of group/organization) and roll-up safety sign.
The benefits
of the Adopt-A-Highway Program speak for itself. Taxpayers save
hundreds of thousands of dollars each year thanks to the volunteers
who clean other people's trash from the Free State's roads.
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