DSEC Maker-focused Ambassador Opportunity

Attn: Educators! Seeking Applicants with a passion for #Making and #DigitalFabrication for a paid, part-time 1-year Virtual STEM Ambassadors Program with the DoD Defense STEM Education Consortium (DSEC) Hosted by TIES

  
TIES (Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM) is seeking applicants for the Department of Defense (DoD) STEM Ambassadors Program. This is a flexible part-time position designed for those working full-time in school settings.

Please use this link to apply. https://lnkd.in/eBGgT9tZ

Applications are due by 11:59 pm EST on May 30, 2023. 

AFCEA Recognized for Engineering Hackathon

 

AFCEAN of the Month, April 2023

Rockbridge Shenandoah Chapter and Belvoir Chapter AFCEANS

This Month AFCEA International is pleased to recognize two chapters from two different regions who collaborated on a Virtual Elementary School Hackathon for fifth graders. The Rockbridge Shenandoah Chapter and Belvoir Chapter hosted this multiday event in December 2022. The event built on a framework used by Fort Belvoir and included six elementary schools across Virginia located in Rockbridge County and at Quantico Crossroads Elementary and Fort Belvoir Elementary.

Special recognition goes to the following individuals who made the event an amazing success;

• AFCEA Rockbridge Shenandoah Chapter: Jeff Thompson, Mattie Smith, Jim Egenrieder, Tamra Lipscomb and Nancy Rowland.
• AFCEA Belvoir Chapter: Brendan Burke, Gus Muller, Anya Kasischke, Tom Perry, Dawn Atwood, Eleanor Sigrest, Carlos Embury and Troy Benesch.
• Others who were critical to the event were Beth Kelley, Lt. Ryan Quarry, USCG, Paige Owens and Tiffanie Ploeger.

The theme was a space-based mission called “Engineer the Planet.” Students played as fictional BASA (Belvoir AFCEA Space Alliance) coders to conduct a mission to Planet X and

Flyer for sharing

Download or link to this online copy. 

Confirmed - STEM Expo (Robotics, AI, Virtual Reality, Physical Computing, Careers)

The Northern Virginia STEM Learning Ecosystem and Virginia Tech in the DC Area want to invite you to participate in a STEM-focused community outreach emphasizing  Physical Computing, Robotics, Mobile App design, and more.

• Saturday, March 25,  9am to 1pm
• Northern Virginia Center
  (W. Falls Church Metro)
• No charges, fees, admission costs, or
  parking costs for exhibitors or participants
• Proposed target ages for participants is
  age 8 to adult

We are still welcoming our collaborators, and inquiries from others.  

We hope to do this again in the Fall, probably excluding the messy (and expensive to clean) K-3 things of past years, and then create an annual event leading to when our Northern Virginia Center programs migrate to the new Innovation Campus scheduled to open in Fall 2024.

Save the date: March 25 STEM Expo - Northern Virginia Center

The Northern Virginia STEM Learning Ecosystem and Virginia Tech in the DC Area want to invite you to participate in a STEM-focused community outreach emphasizing  Physical Computing, Robotics, Mobile App design, and more.

• Saturday, March 25,  9am to 1pm
• Northern Virginia Center
  (W. Falls Church Metro)
• No charges, fees, admission costs, or
  parking costs for exhibitors or participants
• Proposed target ages for participants is
  age 8 to adult

We are now reaching out to our collaborators, and welcome inquiries from others.  

We hope to do this again in the Fall, probably excluding the messy (and expensive to clean) K-3 things of past years, and then create an annual event leading to when our Northern Virginia Center programs migrate to the new Innovation Campus scheduled to open in Fall 2024.

SCHEV announces new WBL training modules for educators, students and employers

The State Council of Higher Education in Virginia launched its first two online "readiness" courses. 

The two sets of modules are “Developing an Internship Program” for employers and “Developing Career Readiness Skills” for students (high school and college). 

The student modules are best experienced with the assistance of teachers, faculty and staff at the student's educational institution or support from an internship supervisor or other mentor. 

They hope educators will review the content of the modules and find ways to incorporate them into current interactions with students. 

Instructions for accessing the modules can be found here: https://virginiatop.org/course-catalog/ 

The project was led by Dr. Sam Ratcliffe of VMI. 

New statewide agency focused on Workforce

Perhaps in response to the Chips and Science Act, and related NSF priorities, workforce development is getting more attention.

from Cardinal News    by Markus Schmidt     November 10, 2022

Youngkin to propose new agency for workforce development

The state Labor Secretary made the announcement at a conference in Roanoke.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin will propose establishing a new, centralized state workforce agency to administer workforce development and training programs that currently are distributed across multiple agencies, Virginia Secretary of Labor Bryan Slater told a group of community college staffers and partners at the Hire Ed Conference at the Hotel Roanoke on Thursday.

“As the governor has been saying, workforce development is not operating like it should,” Slater said in an email to Cardinal News after the annual conference, where workforce leaders gather to explore the ways in which Virginia’s community colleges respond to the needs of businesses and individuals in the commonwealth.

With over 113 workforce providers, 250 training providers, and 1,500 training programs across the commonwealth, Virginia needs to centralize its workforce training, Slater said. “We are working to create a workforce operations structure that reaches more Virginians, prioritizes workforce development, and efficiently trains and places Virginians in jobs,” he said.

Jim Babb, the spokesman for Virginia’s Community College System, said that Slater announced that the Youngkin administration will ask the General Assembly to establish the new state workforce agency. 

“The proposed changes may impact about 30 employees at our system office in Richmond. These are people who have responsibilities for administering several federal workforce