Connect Up features a curated ecosystem of strategic impact partners. These partners have proven success in making measurable progress toward addressing the predicted shortage of entrants in the STEM workforce, supporting the career transition of military veterans, and enhancing community resilience so that all individuals can realize their full potential.
Lifelong learning
Boys and Girls Clubs of America
RTX works with Boys and Girls Clubs of America to provide access to technology-focused education and experiences for every club member. In addition to opening STEM Centers of Innovation, we’ve helped revamp the organization’s DIY STEM curriculum – the most-used curriculum set – to adjust for technical relevancy.
RTX supports a variety of FIRST’s team-based robotics challenges for students age 4-18 worldwide. Our employees mentor more than 500 teams of FIRST robotics students globally, exposing them to engineering and technology opportunities while also fostering essential life skills such as collaboration and critical thinking.
By supporting Girls Who Code Clubs and summer work experience programming, RTX helps provide access to free computer science education and mentors for 200,000 girls in grades 3-12. These programs build confidence, create supportive peer and mentor connections, and provide a pathway to a career in engineering and technology.
The RTX Invention Convention U.S. Nationals is a competition for K-12 students who use critical thinking, entrepreneurship, creativity, and innovation to develop solutions for problems they encounter in their daily lives. With more than 170,000 students participating in Invention Convention Worldwide, we are inspiring the next generation of innovators.
RTX partners with NAF to expand career-themed Academies of Engineering and IT and embed them in public high schools across the U.S., providing equitable access – at scale – to engineering and technology curriculum. These programs improve student outcomes, provide students with work-based learning experiences, including mentorship and internship opportunities, and ensure high school students are college, career, and future ready.
Honoring service
RTX works with The Mission Continues to empower veterans to serve in new ways, solve tough challenges, and mobilize local communities to serve alongside them. Our partnership supports service platoons in more than 40 cities across the United States, mobilizing thousands of volunteers for high-impact community improvement projects.
We partner with Student Veterans of America to ensure student veterans’ success. Our support provides resources, network support, and advocacy for students throughout their higher education journey and beyond. Our employees provide career readiness and mentoring opportunities for students at more than 1,600 chapters across the country.
For over 30 years, RTX has proudly partnered with the USO, demonstrating our steadfast support for the brave men and women serving our country. We are committed to enhancing the lives of military families and easing their transition to civilian life with essential resources and support. Our involvement spans key programs such as USO Centers, the USO Transition Program with Military Mentorship Connect, USO Holidays, USO Care Package Program, and the USO Canine Program. These initiatives empower RTX employees to engage meaningfully with service members and their families.
Supporting communities
RTX partners with Feeding America and its network of food banks to address hunger and food insecurity in our local communities. Our employees support local U.S.-based food banks through volunteerism by donating, sorting and distributing meal boxes in communities across the country. Additionally, we are addressing hunger through corporate and employee donations to local food banks in our international communities – because food security is foundational to global security.
We support Engineers Without Borders in their efforts to build a better world through skills-based volunteerism and engineering projects that empower communities to meet their basic human needs. Our partnership supports projects globally – in countries such as Tanzania, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and Nepal – and across the U.S. Our Employee Network Group is the first industry-based chapter for Engineers Without Borders, with nearly 200 volunteers and actively growing.