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 …
By Emily McGrath, Deputy Director of Workforce Development, NextFlex NextFlex just concluded two iterations of its new one-day pilot program – FlexFactor Sprint: Balance in STEM for Middle School. This new program was launched with students from two Union School District schools: Dartmouth Middle School and Union Middle School, and …
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 guest column from The Mercury News. By Debbie Budd, Brynt Parmeter, and Margaret Daoud-Gray As Silicon Valley seeks to grow and diversify its tech workforce, one obvious solution is overlooked: The 15 community colleges in our region. They are educating the next generation of the Valley workforce. With 250,000 …