By Emily McGrath, Deputy Director of Workforce Development, NextFlex NextFlex hosted five high school interns for six weeks this summer in partnership with the Silicon Valley Organization’s Strive Internship program. Students came from a variety of schools across the San Jose Unified and East Side Unified High School Districts, representing …
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By Emily McGrath, Deputy Director of Workforce Development, Education, and Training, NextFlex One of our 2018 goals for FlexFactor, NextFlex’s project-based learning program in entrepreneurship and technology for high school students, is to broaden its reach to new student segments. Already this has been accomplished in two exciting ways. First, …
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NextFlex will once again open the doors to its manufacturing facility in San Jose for its second annual Innovation Day on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Since its inception in 2015 – when the U.S. Dept. of Defense announced a $75-million award to advance the country’s manufacturing ecosystem and workforce for …
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iNEMI’s largest and most extensive roadmap is on sale online Herndon, Virginia — The 2017 Roadmap from the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI) is now on sale on the iNEMI website. With 28 chapters (the most ever published by iNEMI) and 2,300+ pages, this latest edition of the roadmap provides …
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High school youth learn about entrepreneurship and business models, then develop FHE product ideas and pitches – all within 3 weeks. NextFlex announced today the culmination of a novel month-long pilot program called FlexFactor that was designed to introduce high school students to the world of flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) and advanced …
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CMTC Selected by NIST for Manufacturing Extension Partnership Project Award to Embed Staff at NextFlex San Jose, Calif.—NextFlex, America’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) Manufacturing Innovation Institute, today announced it has partnered with California Manufacturing Technology Consulting (CMTC), a Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) center in Torrance, Calif., which has been …
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