A graduate of Olentangy High School in Lewis Center, Ohio, Clifford “Cliff” Kigar graduated with honors in the spring of 2015. Cliff Kigar now attends Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he is pursuing a major in mechanical engineering.

1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - A
Leading School of Engineering
By Cliff Kigar

2. Introduction
• A graduate of Olentangy High School in Lewis Center, Ohio, Clifford
“Cliff” Kigar graduated with honors in the spring of 2015. Cliff Kigar
now attends Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he is pursuing
a major in mechanical engineering.
The oldest technology research university in the country, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute has trained engineers and other professionals
since 1824. It offers more than 145 individual programs as well as
access to individualized interdisciplinary programs that encourage
students to pursue their own unique ideas. Ranked 12th among
Forbes magazine's leading entrepreneurial universities in 2015,
Rensselaer joins a cohort of recognized institutions that includes
New York University, Stanford University, and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.

3. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute also received
nationwide attention in 2014 when it received a fifth
place ranking on USA Today's list of the country's
top 10 engineering colleges. The honor came only
two years after industry website Business Insider
granted the institute a fourth-place ranking on its
list of the world's leading schools of engineering.
These honors acknowledge a program whose first-
year students placed in the top 10 percent among
high school cohorts and whose graduates report
starting salaries above the national average.