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Welcome to Engineering Connections
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This site supports the Guilford Education
Alliance "Engineering
Connections" Partnership.
Its purpose is to develop Skills for 21st
Economy by bringing "Real Life" into the
classroom through
Lunch & Learn/Classroom
Connection,
and
Staff Development
Sessions;
Job Shadowing,
and
Field Trips.
The program started
on 9/12/08 with Brad Kemmerer, President - ABCO conducting
Classroom
Connection sessions at Weaver Academy,
see pictures below.
Other Lunch & Learn and Classroom Connection
sessions will be held during the 2008-2009
school year; see
Schedule or
check out the Schools
and Industry
Partner pages.
Next
Engineering
Connections Sessions:  11/13/08
Middle College at GTCC Jamestown
November 21, 2008 11:00-11:45 am
- NCFE - Lunch & Learn
Middle College at GTCC Greensboro November 25, 2008
11:40 am -12:25 pm - GD-AIS -
Lunch & Learn
Analog Devices'Engineers Mike
Hughes, Mark Looney, Rohan Gandhi and Tom
MacLeod , conduct
Engineering Connections Classroom
Connections
session at Weaver Academy on November 13, 2008.
Thanks to Pete Kashubara - Principal and
Carol Heise - Career Development
Coordinator for their support.
IEEE Central NC Section Lonnie H Baxley Jr
Engineer conducts Lunch & Learn session at GTCC
Middle College Greensboro 10/21/08. Thanks
to
Kevin Fleming - Principal GTCC Middle
College Greensboro; Debbie Edney - Career
Development Coordinator; for their support.
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Peggy Fersner - NCA&T Geomatics
Professor conducts classroom connection
session-A at Weaver Academy 10/16/08.
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picture above for larger larger image) |
Paul Stanfield - NCA&T Industrial and
Systems Engineering Chair, conducts
classroom connection session-B at Weaver
Academy 10/16/08.
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larger image) |
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Thanks to Cathy Daniels-Lee, Nussbaum
Center For Entrepreneurship for
enlisting speakers and Pete Kashubara II,
Principal & Carol Heise, Career
Development Coordinator for their
support. |
Triad Business Journal Editor,
Justin Catanosa speaking to Teachers
from GTCC Middle Colleges during
Engineering Connections Staff
Development on October 14, 2008.
Thanks to Dr. Margaret Arbuckle -
Director Guilford Education Alliance;
Kevin Fleming - Principal GTCC Middle
College Greensboro; Debbie Edney -
Career Development Coordinator; for
their support and Justin Catanosa for
the excellent presentation. |
Analog Devices'
Steve Singer - Product Development
Engineer, Tom MacLeod - Software and
Applications Engineer and Pam
Aparo - Marketing Manager conduct
Engineering Connections Lunch & Learn
session at GTCC Middle College -
Greensboro on September 30, 2008.
Thanks to Kevin Fleming - Principal and
Debbie Edney - Career Development
Coordinator and Mike Hughes - Analog
Devices for their support. |
General Dynamics -
Advanced Information Systems Manager
David Macchiarolo & Engineer Bryan
Tysinger
conducts Lunch & Learn Session at GTCC
Middle College Jamestown September 26,
2008
Thanks to
Loretta
Rowland-Kitley, Principal and
Dramaine Freeman, Career Develop.
Coordinator for their support.
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Brad Kemmerer,
President ABCO conducts Classroom
Connections session at Weaver
Academy September 12, 2008;
approximately 70 Students from
Guilford County Schools participated
in the sessions.
(Click on picture hot spot to see
larger image).
Thanks to Pete Kashubara II,
Principal and Carol Heise, Career
Development Coordinator for their
support.
Guilford County Schools Attending
Weaver Academy Session |
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