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 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 …
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, …
Republished post from LinkedIn. By Brynt Parmeter, NextFlex I’ll let you in on a secret. Believe it or not, manufacturing is where people come together to actually make things – really cool things. And, what is even more crazy, is that teenagers love it! I know this sounds too weird to …
By Brynt Parmeter, Director of Workforce Development, Education, and Training, NextFlex Over the summer, NextFlex embarked upon a very ambitious Internship program that has fully exceeded our expectations. Last summer we employed one intern. This summer, we employed thirteen. This included eleven high school interns, all rising seniors, and two …