by Christina Moore, Workforce Development Manager, NextFlex We are delighted to be starting our fifth year of FlexFactor in Santa Clara County, Calif., utilizing a virtual platform that continues to provide students with an engagement in education and career pathways that lead to the advanced manufacturing sector. To date, 3,209 …
By Mikayla Ridi, NextFlex Workforce Development Project Manager In early December NextFlex co-hosted the FlexFactor Finals: Silicon Valley events with San Jose City College (SJCC) and Evergreen Valley College (EVC) in San Jose, CA. The events featured judging panel representatives from each college, industry partners Jabil, DuPont, and 219 Design, …
By Kendyl Hollingsworth, Madison County Record MADISON COUNTY — A $250,000 grant from Boeing will help provide for the second expansion of a national program into Madison County that will aim to help area students develop skills to become successful contributors to the advanced manufacturing workforce. The program coming to Madison …
By Mikayla Ridi, Workforce Development Project Manager, NextFlex When the yellow bus full of students approaches their destination, the excitement builds. Students from Dartmouth Middle School (San Jose, CA) had a great opportunity on Friday, November 9th, 2018, to be one of the first middle schools to visit the newly …
Students in Huntsville-Madison County, Alabama, will participate in FlexFactor following $250,000 Boeing grant HUNTSVILLE, Ala.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Boeing has awarded $250,000 toward a new workforce development initiative in partnership with the Alabama Community College System and NextFlex, America’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics Innovation Institute. The fund will fuel the local adoption of …
FlexFactor® kicked off the 2018-2019 school year with four Project Lead the Way (PLTW) classes from Campbell Union High School District (CUHSD) in California. Students in the capstone PLTW class, Engineering Design and Development (EDD), put their research and design chops to good use as they built out their FlexFactor …