The following projects have been funded by the WIRED Initiative through the U.S. Department of Labor. This grant was awarded through the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA) with Calhoun Community College as the local fiscal agent and administered by Valley Innovation Alliance.
- AkinsCrisp Public Strategies:
- NEW-STEM Initiative – (Non-Commissioned Officer Enhanced Workforce in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) – This initiative links NCO’s leaving military service with job openings with businesses and federal agencies in the VIA footprint.
- AZ Technology:
- Savory Science – Video Series making science fun and innovative.
- Bevill State Community College:
- High Growth Career Programs – This program identifies students from academically and economically disadvantaged backgrounds and works to develop their skill set in their chosen STEM field in order to prepare them for their high growth field.
- Calhoun Community College:
- Biotechnology Associate Degree Program – The first Biotech Associate Degree Program.
- Biotechnology Pathway-Dual Enrollment/Tech Prep – Allows eligible high school students to enroll in college courses concurrently with high school classes, and receive both high school and college credit.
- Coops/Apprenticeships in Targeted Industries – Encompasses degree programs in Aerospace Technology, Industrial Technology, Machine Tool Technology, and Process Technology, twenty-two industry partners, two economic development associations, and three chambers of commerce to provide on-the-job training experiences, competitive salaries and a promise to hire students upon graduation.
- Dream It, Do It - Through a comprehensive marketing campaign, educators and industry business are brought together to identify the manufacturing jobs and the two year institution that can deliver the training in their area.
- Advanced Manufacturing Pipeline – Serves as a conduit for taking students from high school through to employment or higher education.
- ACT Job Profiling/WorkKeys – Job analysis and profiling component offers a concrete way for organizations to analyze the skills needed for specific jobs and to describe those needs to educators, students, and job applicants.
- Columbia State Community College:
- BNI Teacher Workshop/Student Camp – Increase understanding of career opportunities in biotechnology, nanotechnology and information technology in middle Tennessee and north Alabama.
- Biotechnology Camps for High School Juniors and Seniors – Increase student understanding of biotechnology careers, needed skills and education, and entrepreneurial opportunities.
- Girls Can Do It – An all day conference for female high school juniors and seniors to expose them to a wider selection of career choices in non-traditional arenas such as science, technology, engineering and math.
- Franklin County Schools:
- Learn to Earn (L2E) – Build capacity for STEM skill development and promote, attract, and support development of a STEM workforce.
- Giles County School Systems:
- Project Lead the Way Engineering – Educate students in all STEM competencies and be ready for the workforce as technicians or for post-secondary institutions to prepare for careers in science or engineering.
- Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology Research:
- Biotechnology Educator in Residence- A high school science teacher takes a professional leave of absence and spends a year of residency at Hudson Alpha learning both the research and corporate side of Biotechnology.
- Bio-Train Intern Program - Places students into internship opportunities within the biotechnology field and helps expand the available biotechnology workforce.
- Science in Motion – Provides equipment, teacher training, and classroom support needed to run an effective secondary science laboratory program.
- Project Lead the Way Biomedical Sciences – Offers high school students dynamic curriculum the uses real world experience and hands on learning. This program uses a combination of activity-based, project-based and problem-based learning styles to engage students.
- Huntsville Angel Network:
- Angel Investment – Angel Investors expand their network to help more entrepreneurial companies attempting to startup or develop their young businesses into significant employers of the VIA region.
- Mentor Protégé – Expanding the current MentorNet Program into the VIA Region. This program provides a structure under which businesses seek help with a crisis or with specific decision making issues. This is also a partnership with the Women’s Business Center of North Alabama (WBCNA) and the Shoals Entrepreneurial Center (SEC).
- J.F. Drake State Technical College:
- Robotic Welding for Advanced Manufacturing - Educate students on the role that robotic welding plays in the manufacturing of products impacting daily life, increase the number of students choosing to enter the welding field, and produce AWS certified welders well-prepared to enter the advanced manufacturing careers available in the northern Alabama region.
- Junior Achievement of North Alabama:
- Junior Achievement Expansion – Expanding the Junior Achievement Program into Lincoln County (TN), Marshall County, Jackson County, DeKalb County, Madison County, Cullman County, Morgan County, and Limestone County.
- Junior Achievement and Job Shadowing - Developing high growth industry specific job shadowing programs based on the same format used for Adventures in Engineering to introduce high school students to the high-growth STEM careers.
- Motlow State Community College:
- STEM Certificate Program/Dual Enrollment – Allows eligible high school students to enroll in college courses concurrently with high school classes, and receive both high school and college credit.
- STEM/ VIA Action Camps - Provide training to high school faculty to provide more stimulating classes in the STEM areas.
- Northwest Alabama Council of Local Governments:
- Girls Can Do It – An all day conference for female high school juniors and seniors in Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Marion and Winston counties to expose them to a wider selection of career choices in non-traditional arenas such as science, technology, engineering and math.
- Snead State Community College:
- 21st Century Manufacturing – Cultivates STEM competencies by preparing students for successful careers associated with technology and engineering, and will serve the high growth, high demand occupations of Advanced Manufacturing.
- South Central Tennessee Workforce Alliance:
- Project Lead the Way Summer Institute – Increase exposure of high school students to engineering and the possible careers associated with engineering with a four year program of courses.
- Project Lead the Way Engineering – Integrates STEM standards into an engineering curriculum that is project-based and allows secondary schools to articulate with engineering programs at post-secondary institutions.
- University of Alabama in Huntsville:
- North Alabama Engineering Academy Alliance – Provides guidance and support to the eight engineering academies in the VIA region.
- Valley Innovation Alliance:
- Technology Innovation Summit – VIA – Identifies and showcases innovation and technological advancement achievements in the VIA WIRED Region in the fields of Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Engineering, and Advanced Manufacturing.
- Vanderbilt University:
- VIBES Summer Workshops – Enables 12 high school teachers from the VIA WIRED Region to attend VIBES (Vanderbilt Instruction in Biomedical Engineering for Secondary Science) summer workshops.
- Winston County High School:
- Computer Numerical Control and Design Project – Allows students to integrate math calculations, metal working skills, and marketing skills of the final product. The students will have the opportunity to be involved with the actual development of career opportunities in robotics, metal fabrication and marketing.
- Women’s Business Center of North Alabama:
- MentorNet Program – Provides technical and managerial assistance to small and emerging businesses over a three year program roll out in Madison, Morgan, DeKalb, Jackson, Limestone, Cullman and Lawrence. For one year the WBCNA would assist entrepreneurs in Marshall, DeKalb and Cullman Counties.
- Wallace State Community College:
- Bio-Botics Institute – Promotes awareness of and inertest in careers in biotechnology and advanced manufacturing through a summer camp series. These camps will expose high school students to educational and skill requirements for these careers.
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