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Educational Resources: InformalScience.org
http://informalscience.org/ Earlier this month, the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education expanded the journal selection available on InformalScience.org via EBSCO's Education Source database. You can now access the full text of more than 2,000 journals...
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Online Learning: A Look at Open Educational Resources Commons
We've been reviewing workforce and career focused educational resources and tools for the AMRoC website, and recently took a look at Skills Commons , a free and open online library of learning and program support materials for job-driven workforce development, created...
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6th Annual ROBOTICON Tampa Bay Set for September 29 & 30 at USF Yuengling Center
FCDI is excited to be hosting the 6th Annual ROBOTICON Tampa Bay K-12 STEAM Showcase and FIRST Robotics Competition off-season event! At ROBOTICON Tampa Bay 2018, nearly 1000 students from around Tampa Bay and Florida will descend on the University of South Florida...
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Taking Action for Diversity & Inclusion
The persistent inequities across our country underscore our urgent, national need to address and alleviate racial, ethnic and other tensions and to promote diversity within our communities. As leaders of some of America’s largest corporations, we manage thousands of...
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Helping Fill the Competitiveness Gaps
In terms of opportunity for growth and improvement, the Talent driver shows no shortage of areas in which the community might choose to examine, understand, and engage. ...In terms of Outcomes, Tampa Bay performs well in the aggregate measures - migration, GRP growth...
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A Conversation with FCDI Executive Director, Terri Willingham
FCDI Executive Director, Terri Willingham, spent some time speaking with the great folks at PLuGHiTz Live during the Synapse Innovation Summit, back in March. We appreciate the opportunity to share our story, and grateful to PLuGHiTz Live for being such a great...
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A Conversation with the ARM Institute’s Byron Clayton
Back in March, we invited the ARM institute to join us at the Synapse Innovation Summit, at the FCDI organized STEM Pavilion. Our friends at PLuGHiTz Live spent some time speaking with ARM Institute CEO, Dr. Byron Clayton, who gives a great overview of the mission...
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Learning by Doing
A great article ran in FreeCodeCamp recently. Titled "How to escape tutorial purgatory as a new developer ..." Not far behind it was a piece at Inside Higher Ed titled "Breaking through the Parchment Ceiling",a review of the book, Free Range Learning in the Digital...
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Change Starts in Our Own Communities
FCDI Executive Director Terri Willingham shared our work with the Tampa Bay Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics Center, with the great crew at PLuGHiTz Live, during the FIRST Robotics Competition Orlando Regional, earlier this...
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In Consideration of Community Driven Innovation
To prepare our residents for careers that not only provide jobs today, but will continue to support them and their families for decades to come, a collective effort—spanning government, education and industry—is required. - Jim Kenney - Mayor, City of Philadelphia, In...
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(South) Carolina on Our Minds: Best Practices from the Palmetto State
At the invitation of the ARM Institute, FCDI headed up to Greenville, South Carolina this past week to meet with ARMs Chief Workforce Officer, Rebecca Hartley, and the amazing folks at Greenville Technical College , Spartanburg Community College and the South Carolina...
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Our 2018 Board & Forging New Paths
Meet Michele Mendez FCDI is delighted to welcome Michele Mendez to our Board of Directors. Michele is a Vice President with Bank of America, specializing in Small Business Lending. She is also Special Events Executive Producer for PLuGHiTz Live, where, she says, " I...
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