Tuskegee Airmen Awards Colorado Student the Pratt & Whitney Golden Eagle Scholarship (PR Newswire)

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., July 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX - News ) company, in partnership with the Tuskegee Airmen Inc., awarded the 2008 Golden Eagle Scholarship to Mahad Fahieh of Aurora, Colorado. The four-year, $20,000 award, funded by Pratt & Whitney, recognizes a high school senior who has demonstrated aptitude for aerospace technology and aviation. The Golden Eagle Scholarship is the largest single endowment awarded by the Tuskegee Airmen Scholarship Fund. Under the terms of the scholarship, Mahad will receive $5,000 each year for four years. He was presented with his award during the Youth Luncheon at the Tuskegee Airmen Convention on July 19 in Philadelphia. Orville Bailey, director of quality assurance for Pratt & Whitney's Middletown Engine Center in... [read full story]