This week was all about understanding how best to reach our desired audience, creating some critical marketing assets to help our cause, as well as our first site visit to a maker space to inform the design of our physical space. Resulting milestones included:
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Weeks 1 & 2, from Augusut 7-18, were chock full of research, reach out, and relationship building. Lots of excitement shared by all involved (below) with regard to this program and its potential. • completed application for, and successfully received, access to, supporting EverFi curriculum online;
• completed initial in-house "finger on the pulse" meetings/discussions with related VCTC faculty • met with Amanda Glover, Executive Director , Augusta Econ. Dev. Dept. regarding state of industry, contacts, and support; • met with CloudFactoryWorx to discuss creating unique, first-of-a-kind, online Fab-in-a-box - a real-world, simulated factory process online learning tool specifically for our program. • meeting confirmed with Dan Layman, on Sept.6 from Community Foundation • meeting confirmed with Daikin Applied on Sept.7 from 1-3pm • meeting confirmed Glenn Bull from UVA's Curry School of Ed., Eric Johnson and team from FabLab Classroom at Buford Elementary in October • meeting confirmed with NIck Swayne, on Thurs. Aug.24, Executive Director of 4-Va, JMU X Lab, and X Labs Consulting • Wed.August 23 meeting confirmed with Matt Haskins and Maura Stout of Wilson HS Technology Education • reached out to CCWA in Richmond with request to bring their Mobile Advanced Manufacturing Lab to support program marketing efforts • secured MT1 training grant and slot in Richmond Sept.13-15 • working with Amy Pultz to arrange visits to Stuarts Draft, intro to career coaches, and attendance at CTE Directors meeting to share program information. |
why "Health of the line"The on-time completion, and finished quality, of a manufactured product is dependent upon how well things go at each and every step of the process. This is known as "health of the line". AuthorAndrei Dacko heads the development of the Manufacturing Technology program at VCTC. He brings over 20yrs combined experience across education, manufacturing, sales, and business development. Archives
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