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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Kieta Osteen-Cochrane (front center), executive director of the Institute for Business Training and Community Education at Brevard Community College, holds the check donated to BCC's WENDI program by the Federally Employed Women-Space Coast Chapter at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The ceremony was held at Kennedy. Gathered for the presentation were (front row, left to right) Helen Kane, Richard Belton, Sandra Eliason, Osteen-Cochrane, Jean Grenville, Arden Belt, Charmel Anderson and Carolyn Burnham; (back row) Kathy Roberts, Connie Dobrin, Patty Boatman and Purvette Bryant. Eliason is president of FEW. The FEW scholarship committee, chaired by Helen Kane, and the chapter’s Board of Directors, recently voted to contribute their educational scholarship money for 2006 to the WENDI program. This donation amounts to $6,000. FEW organizes and sponsors conferences and seminars on issues pertinent to women that have benefited not only their members and women at Kennedy Space Center, but throughout all of Brevard.