Technical Education

The nonprofit National Institute for Innovation and Technology is working with BOCES and two dozen school districts in the Albany area to upgrade their technical education curricula to suit specific industry needs.

Florida schools are grappling with significant disparities in the availability, quality and delivery of computer-science programming, but it should be a top priority given the state's burgeoning tech industry.

Emphasizing the importance of cyber-range simulations and hands-on training, experts from Cyberbit said in a webinar on Thursday that such exercises are becoming part of university strategies to meet workforce demands.

The Jacobson Institute at Grand View University announced a partnership with the technology training company SkillStorm to fit regional workers for available positions in growing industry. SkillStorm has similar programs at southern schools.

To fill in-demand positions for data-science professionals, business leaders in Salt Lake City's burgeoning tech industry are working with the state board of education to integrate more data science into K-12 curricula.

A public community college in Washington received $1 million from the federal Community Project Fund to enhance its mechatronics and automotive programs and build an advanced manufacturing program.

Derrick Day, a 17-year-old at Westminster High School who is blind, created an app called LDOT (long-distance object tracker) that uses artificial intelligence to verbally identify objects that appear in a phone's camera.

Georgia Tech and Southern Regional Technical College are among many partners on a $65 million grant to build a technical workforce training incubator and talent pipeline for autonomous and AI technologies.

Lorain County Community College in Ohio hosted the "Dream It! Design It! Make It! Manufacture It!" camp, also known as D2M2, to help students explore advanced manufacturing and career pathways through technology.

Toyota USA Foundation has earmarked up to $5.7 million in grants, and will work with local and national nonprofits, to close educational gaps by funding equipment, staffing, job shadowing and other STEM support programs.

Having shifted to hybrid work, Lumen recently donated over 800,000 square feet of vacated property to the University of Louisiana. The university's Monroe campus will turn it into a mixed-use commercial facility.

A lawsuit alleges that the Caltech Cybersecurity Bootcamp was taught by the for-profit company Simplilearn, rather than California Institute of Technology instructors, and was not as helpful or prestigious as advertised.

With funding from the National Telecommunication and Information Administration, a public historically Black university in North Carolina will offer 24 weeks of free coding lessons to 20 students.

A public community college in Texas is offering courses designed to provide entry-level skills or certifications in fields such as administration technology, emergency medical technology, computer science and security.

The Ion District, a technology park in Houston established as a joint project between the city and Rice University, will host tuition-free classes this fall for certifications from CompTIA and Google IT.

Makerspaces at the Community College of Allegheny County, Westmoreland County Community College, Penn State New Kensington and Indiana University of Pennsylvania help businesses get tech-based products off the ground.

A $1.3 million grant from the Economic Development Administration will fund renovations to turn an old building into a state-of-the-art workforce training center for data analytics, cybersecurity and other fields.

Among the education-related bills signed by Hawaii Gov. Josh Green this week was HB503, which calls upon the state board of education to assess when, and whether, to make computer science a graduation requirement.