United Technologies : Female Engineer Pays it Forward
July 17, 2018 at 10:37 am EDT
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Amanda Varricchio creates opportunities that she didn't have.
When Pratt & Whitney Test Engineer Amanda Varricchio attended Mercy High School in Middletown, Conn., she knew she wanted to become an engineer, but had limited outlets to pursue a career in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Today, Amanda ensures that Mercy students will never run into the same road blocks that she did.
For seven years, Amanda has mentored Mercy's FIRST Robotics team, the Tech Tigers - one of just two all-female Robotics teams in New England. Amanda challenges her mentees to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills - inside and outside the classroom - with an emphasis on discussion, compromise, and the ability to learn from one another. As Mercy High School junior Amy Agostino puts it, 'that is our power.'
UTC has invested $10 million in FIRST team and tournament grants since 1995 and has made an impact on the lives of more than 50,000 students in the U.S. and Canada.
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RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies Corporation) is among the world's leading aeronautics and defense groups. Net sales (including intragroup) break down by sector of activity as follows:
- aerial navigation systems (29.3%; Collins Aerospace): manufacturing of electrical, electronical and mechanical systems for aircrafts (compressors, airplane control, etc.), civil and military helicopters, etc.;
- aeronautics (29.2%; Pratt & Whitney): design and manufacturing of civil and military aircraft engines, gas turbines, rocket engines and propulsion systems;
- missile systems, and integrated air and anti-missile defense systems (21.1%; Raytheon Missiles & Defense): design and manufacturing of weapons systems, missiles, munitions, projectiles, radars systems, control and monitoring equipment, communication, information, detection and imaging systems, etc. ;
- aerospace systems (20.4%; Raytheon Intelligence & Space): production of radars, airborne sensors, tactical airborne communications systems, software-defined radio solutions, advanced tactical networking systems, cryptographic systems, real-time sensor networking systems, etc.
Net sales break down by source of revenue between sales of products (76.7%) and services (24.3%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (86.3%), Europe (5.8%), Asia/Pacific (2.7%), North Africa and Middle East (0.2%) and other (5%).
RTX CORPORATION 
