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Workforce Development
Tech Collective is committed to helping the technology industry attract, develop and retain skilled professionals. Partnering with member companies, universities and high schools, Tech Collective is creating a pipeline for technology talent that gets young people excited about technology, enhances college courses with industry input and creates opportunities for advancing the skills of current technology professionals. Pipelines for the workforce development pillar are:
Academies of Information Technology-A four year high school program based on challenging academics applied through fun projects that teach information technology. By partnering with the National Academy Foundation, one of the nations foremost school-to-career programs, we've launched the Academies to address the growing demand for core IT workers across the country. It helps to create an employee pipeline by educating young people about career possibilities and helping them to build skills at the age when they are just beginning to think about their futures: in high school. Lesson plans are designed to integrate English, math and language arts through hands-on projects. Also, the academy model incorporates business partnerships to provide career awareness and exploration activities in information technology.
This is where we need your help. Tech Collective is looking for business partners who can support our local Academies through:
o serving on local advisory boards,
o speaking to students about your work environment, education and skills,
o providing paid internships for students and externships for teachers,
o offering job shadowing and mentoring experiences,
o making available scholarships, in-kind and financial support,
o helping to design curricula.
The success of the AOIT depends on the commitment of leaders in business, education and government. We hope you will join the more than 1,000 business partners who currently support the work of the National Academy Foundation across the nation.
For more information, please contact us either by phone at 401-521-7805
or email at jjohnson@tech-collective.org
Technology Partnership- A college/business consortium to align IT course work with industry needs, provide internships and a career assessment and mapping tool for IT professionals. Tech Collective received the H1B Visa Grant of $2.7 Million which is matched by Rhode Island businesses, including Care New England, G-Tech, Fleet Bank, Citizens Bank and CVS, to train existing workers in Rhode Island.
More recently, Tech Collective oversees training for workers for futures in biomanufacturing. Rhode Island recently received a $3 million federal grant from the DLT that is being used to train close to 600 people for manufacturing jobs in the life sciences. State officials say the new funding is made possible by the Department of Labor's H-1B training grant program.
The program was designed to prepare U.S. workers for skill shortage occupations. Funds are derived from fees paid by employers bringing highly skilled workers into the United States from other countries under the Hl-B visa program.
This new grant award adds to the flow of Department of Labor funding in Rhode Island that began with the $5.4 million program for IT training awarded to RITEC in 2002. The grant was approved in part because of RITEC's plans to work with growing corporations, such as Amgen Inc., the largest life sciences employer in the-state. (For more information see the "News" section on this website.)
GRRL Tech- (Girls Reaching Remarkable Levels) is a one of a kind, interactive technology expo designed exclusively for sophomore and junior female high school students and their teachers. Leaders from the educational and business communities join forces at a post-secondary institution to inform female students of the fantastic opportunities in the fields of science, math and technology. Additional information is posted on the GRRL Tech page under Events.
RI School to Career - Building a quality workforce should start at a young age. School-to-Career develops partnerships between business and education to provide opportunities for all students to explore and test what they learn in the classroom while seeing its relevance to their future career choices. For more information, call 401-462-8856, or www.ristc.org.
Other programs Tech Collective sponsors and supports are:
The Verizon/Bryant College Communications Center
The Verizon/Bryant College Telecommunications Center is offering The Teaching With Technology program is designed to provide K-12 teachers with strategies for utilizing technology within the K-12 curriculum. The teachers will gain a working knowledge of the computer applications, and the equipment itself to lay the foundation for the Teaching With Technology concept. The teacher will then be skilled with creatively designing curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus, holistic in nature and using the technology tools appropriate to achieving the learning objective.
The web site address for the TWT program is: http://verizon.bryant.edu/twt
The web site address for the TWT program is: http://verizon.bryant.edu/twt
Summer Externships for Educators- The deadline for this year's summer externship was March 31. Teachers who participate in the educator externship experience are able to take first-hand experience from the workplace and directly integrate those experiences into their classroom curriculum. Teachers will understand the diversity of skills students will need to be successful in the competitive global workplace of tomorrow. The RI Department of Education offers participating teachers several options for professional academic credit. Last summer almost 100 teachers took advantage of this wonderful opportunity. Tech Collective is pleased to have matched 40 teachers with 36 local companies and organizations! For more information, contact JoAnn at jjohnson@tech-collective.org,
Schwinn Scholarship
The Schwinn Scholarship was established for Rhode Island high school students who are participating in the Academy of Information Technology program, and are interested in pursuing higher education in either Information Technology, Data Networking, Telecommunications of New Media. This year's recipient is Beth Nuygen a graduating senior at the Woonsocket Career and Technical Center. Previous winners have been John Marques, Bethany Bedard and Tolu Adenope, all of the Woonsocket Area Career and Technical Center.
The Schwinn Scholarship was established for Rhode Island high school students who are participating in the Academy of Information Technology program, and are interested in pursuing higher education in either Information Technology, Data Networking, Telecommunications of New Media. This year's recipient is Beth Nuygen a graduating senior at the Woonsocket Career and Technical Center. Previous winners have been John Marques, Bethany Bedard and Tolu Adenope, all of the Woonsocket Area Career and Technical Center.
The National Center for Education Statistics- has posted on its website the latest installment of its report: Internet Access in US Public School Classrooms: 1994-2001. As of 2001, this report shows that, in almost every conceivable socioeconomic category, great strides are being made in connecting public school students to the Internet. Interestingly, the greatest strides forward were made in schools and classrooms serving the lowest income students. The full report can be found at: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002018
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