In addition to its reference to AMTEC, the report also shares actions that states can take to shape the future of technical training that will support large and fast-growing industries. These include championing the importance of technical education and its global nature; focusing on industry with the highest potential for economic growth; considering financial support for college faculty; growing multi-state partners that provide high-quality, industry-valued training; requiring comprehensive outcome data to assess skills and credentials gained, informing policy makers and holding educational institutions accountable. Congratulations! to AMTEC for their accomplishments, and, kudos to all the other centers and projects in the NSF ATE community that work in education-industry partnerships throughout the country and across the many facets of technical education to reach the same goal of improving technical education in innovative and creative ways to strengthen our American technician workforce. The NGA report is posted at: www.nga.org/center/ehsw.
In this issue of the FLATE Focus, you can read about FLATE-sponsored summer educator professional development workshops, robotics camps and outreach activities at the HCC Brandon Campus, MSSC credentials alignment with the engineering technology degree technical core courses, the Florida “Ready to Work” program which aligns with the NAM-endorsed Stackable Certificate System (SCS), and of course sTEm puzzle # 9. Also don’t forget HI-TEC conference the last week of this month in Orlando (www.highimpact-tec.org), and send in your nominations (http://www.fl-ate.org/projects/awards.html) for FLATE’s educator and industry partner awards before August 30 .
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