This is the fourteenth year that FLATE has recognized educators at the secondary and postsecondary level and industry partners for their outstanding contributions to promote manufacturing education across Florida. “The Awards represent FLATE’s effort to showcase and recognize the contributions of educators and industries in advancing technician education on a regional and statewide level” said Executive Director of FLATE, Marilyn Barger, Ph.D. Awardees were selected from a distinguished pool of nominations submitted from across the state and were judged by an independent Awards Judging Committee. "FloridaMakes is proud of the 2021 FLATE Awardees for their work in manufacturing education in Florida," said Kevin Carr, FloridaMakes CEO. "It is important to continuously build our pipeline of youth entering the manufacturing industry and recognizing excellence in manufacturing education is one way we can do this.” The 2021 Awardees come from across the state and have exhibited exemplary work promoting manufacturing education and career pathways. The 2021 Awardees are:
- Selena Lewis, Educator for the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship for Project Lead the Way at Young Middle Magnet School in Tampa, FL, will receive the Distinguished Manufacturing Secondary Educator-of-the-Year Award
- Mike D. Cannon, Associate Professor at Pensacola State College in Pensacola, FL, will receive the Distinguished Manufacturing Post-Secondary Educator-of-the-Year Award
- Thomas A. Mudano, President & Chief Executive Officer of AmSkills, Inc. in Holiday, FL, will receive the Distinguished Manufacturing Organizational Partner Service Award
- Peter Cirak, Quality Assurance Director at Seal Dynamics in Tampa, FL, will receive the Distinguished Manufacturing Partner Service Award
Awardees will be recognized at both the Florida Association
of Career and Technical Education (FACTE, www.facte.org) Conference in Orlando
July 19-20 as well as the FloridaMakes MakeMore Summit during the virtual
Talent Development segment, July 27-28.
The awardees will also serve as “manufacturing ambassadors” across the
state during the coming year. The 2021
FLATE Manufacturing Education Excellence Awards are sponsored by Jaeger
Education, SES Labs, Northwest Florida Manufacturing Council (NWFMC) and the
Bay Area Manufacturing Association (BAMA).
For more information about the FLATE awards, visit the FLATE awards webpage or contact Dr. Marilyn Barger ( Marilyn.Barger@flate.org).
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