WTC Steel Project Summary

The WTC Steel Foundation is the culmination of several years of work on the part of students and staff at Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a city that was created to help end World War II, Oak Ridge was honored to receive artifacts from Ground Zero to build a memorial on our campus. The monument for the victims of September 11^th’s terrorist attacks was unveiled and dedicated on the first anniversary of the attacks.

Now, with the help of the charitable foundation, Oak Ridge High School wants to share a tangible reminder of this attack with the nation. The students' dream is to have a uniform plaque, with a cross section of the remaining column attached, placed in every capital city. Each state can choose whether to place the plaque inside the capitol building, outside on the capitol grounds, or on a high school campus in the capital city. The memorials are to be provided to each state at no cost save for additional materials each state decides to use to appropriately display the plaques.

Throughout the process, Oak Ridge High School students have been involved in making decisions and carrying out the operations of this project. Schools across the nation can join them, now, to make this national project a national educational experience.