Florida Founder's Day Luncheon

Saturday, January 13, 2024, 12 - 2pm

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Florida Founder's Day Luncheon

Please join us for a regional meet-up with Dean of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering, Barry Shoop, to help kick-off Cooper Together 2024!

Florida Founder's Day Luncheon
Cooper Together 2024
Saturday, January 13th at 12:00 pm 

City Fish Market
7940 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33434
$55 per person includes three course lunch and non-alcoholic beverages

To register, please click here.

Cooper Together is celebrated by alumni and friends around the world, commemorating Peter Cooper's Birthday and honoring his philanthropic spirit. 

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  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.