Corridor briefs
Long Range
Planning
They say “he who wins at workforce development wins at economic development,” and
it appears that The Corridor may have an
ace up its sleeve with the latest element of its
20-year-old techPATH initiative, which began 20
years ago with techCAMP, a program to bring
classroom teachers into high tech environments
in industry to learn new ways to teach their stu-
Central Florida-based modeling and simulation irm whose entire team of scientists
dents about the importance of studying science,
demonstrated unique training tools developed for teams of military medics.
technology, engineering and math (STEM).
“The idea is to create awareness with students and teachers of what it’s like to
Now, stemCONNECT takes advantage of
work in a high tech company,” said Randy Berridge, president of the Florida High
Internet technology to bring experts to their
Tech Corridor Council. “For those experiences we try, in a meaningful fashion, to
classrooms for live, two-way sessions that
convey why STEM curriculum is so important.”
let students have that same opportunity.
Entire classrooms have “visited” such unique
The Corridor partners with the Central Florida STEM Alliance to promote the
environments as Florida Hospital’s Celebration-
programs to schools throughout the 10-county Central Florida School Boards
based Nicholson Center for Robotic Surgery,
Alliance and The Corridor’s STEM Team of Dr. Jeff Bindell and Vicki Morelli
where thousands of surgeons from around the
connects industry volunteers with schools throughout the entire 23-county
world train, and inside the labs of Simetri, a
Corridor region.
WHAT A
STORY.
THE SUCCESS OF THE FLORIDA HIGH
TECH CORRIDOR COUNCIL IS QUITE A
STORY. From the International Space
Station, the region’s glow is a clear
statement with a bright future powered
by three great universities dedicated to …
attracting, retaining and growing high tech
industry and the workforce to support it.
We’ve been proud to
have the opportunity tell
this story for the last two
decades. As story tellers,
THAT’S THE KIND OF
STORY YOU LOVE TO TELL.
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