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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 year.
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...
(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...
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...
FIRST Championship & Next Steps
FCDI board members joined over 30,000 people attending the FIRST Championship in Houston last week, to celebrate and support more than 15,000 students, ages 6-18, from more than 40 countries, at the world’s largest celebration of science, technology, engineering, and...
FCDI Heads to Houston FIRST Championship!
The Foundation for Community Driven Innovation heads to Texas next week, for the Houston FIRST Championship. In addition to cheering on Tampa Bay area teams competing at the event, we’re facilitating two workshop sessions at the FIRST Conference there. Manufacturing...
ARM Institute Visit & Synapse Innovation Summit Recap
What a whirlwind last week was! After wrapping up Gulf Coast Maker & Comic Con, we launched right into hosting a visit by the ARM Institute, which included a tour of EMS, where the FIRST Robotics Competition field is being built, as the centerpiece of our...
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