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The Florida
Endeavor Academy and FLATE will co-sponsor a 1 day workshop
training for VX
solid modelling software in the FLATE meeting room. More
details coming soon.
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The Brandon Chamber sponsors a professional
day of tours, talks and round table discussions for
Hillsoborough County high school counselors every February.
FLATE participated by giving the 30 counselors a presentation
about the new Center, its mission and how it will be
focusing on technical career paths, particlarly those
related to manufacturing. The video from MATC (Milwalkee
Area Technical College's ATE project, 21st Century Urban
Technology Education Project,"Get
A Life"
View
the agenda
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Eight to ten middle school teachers
from Pinellas, Hillsborough and St. Lucie counties will attend
the training for new equipment platforms to support middle school
technical education programs. FLATE staff will help to provide
the teachers with additional materials to support manufacturing
education and career paths.
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The
staff, principal investigators, outreach managers and representatives
from the community met for a day long brainstroming session
to begin developing a plan for meet the outreach deliverables
of the center. In attendance were, Eric Roe, director, Marilyn
Barger, executive director, Laura Moses, Sr. Staff Assistant;
Brad Jenkins, principal investigator (SPC); Richard Gilbert,
FLATE principal investigator (USF); Hugh Rogers and Michael
Sullivan, FLATE Outreach Managers; and Mark Gaudio, Jaeger
Corportation, and Linda Manci, community representative.
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On Wednesday, October 27, 2004 over
150 middle school students will visit the Brandon Campus of
HCC to explore the educational opportuinites in Associate of
Science Degree Programs. The seventh and eighth grade students
will visit a factory automation demonstration and be provided
materials on career opportunities in Manufacturing and related
advanced technologies.
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Girl Tech is a one week day camp
for middle school girls focused on topics of information technology
and business communications. This year 12 girls participated
during the week June 9-13. The girls learned about computer
hardware and software, built web pages, took a field trip to
a local business facility. Girl Tech also visited the Manufacturing
Technology Program where they learned about how microchips are
made and the clean rooms that they are made in. the girls also
did a process simulation exercise for doping of semiconductor
materials. 2003 was the second year of this program focused
on young girls, information technology, and behavior in the
workplace and sponsored by the School District of Hillsborough
County.
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HCC was awarded a state grant for
a 2003 summer program entitled "Frontiers in Engineering".
Middleton High School, the county magnet school for Engineering
and Technology, was a key partner in this project. Over 40 rising
sophomores, juniors and seniors, from Middleton and other area
high schools attended the two-week summer camp. The students
were introduced to various areas of engineering including manufacturing,
bioengineering, nanotechnology, aerospace and semiconductor
fabrication with lectures from local engineers, and FLATE faculty
from the local high schools, HCC, and USF. The group visited
the Kennedy Space Center, the College of Engineering at USF,
and Uniroyal Optoelectric where LED's are manufactured. During
the camp sessions, time every day was allocated for project
work. Student group projects were presented on the last day
to family, friends and faculty and all students where given
certificates of completion as well as a graphing calculator.
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Banquet was help on Thurs June 19, 2003 at the Radisson Hotel
on Roosevelt Blvd. BAMA awards several scholarships every year
to bay area students who will pursue higher education in manufacturing
or related technical fields. This year, BAMA awarded 3 scholarships
of $1250. Education, not only for its members, but for students
is an important aspect of BAMA's mission, which reads "Providing
Tampa Bay's Manufacturing Community With Quality Educational
And Training Programs, Events With High Take-Away-Value, And
Forums For Networking And Information Exchange" The
2003 winners each received $1250 towards their higher education.
They are:
1. Ms. Ruby L. Blauvelt, Largo High School
2. Ms. Toni D. Palmerino, St. Petersburg High School
3. Mr. Michael B. Wright,Tarpon Springs High School
The three BAMA scholarship winners are planning to attend
public universities in Florida.
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