Technology Education and Business Alliance
M E E T I N G M I N U T E S
M a y 1 8 , 20 1 0.
M e m b e r s P r e s e n t :
Allison, Michael – Tahoe Technologies
Baker, Ron – JFG Systems, Inc.
Bale, Steve - Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC)
Bencivenga, Robert - Clark County School District (CCSD)
Berglund, Todd – 1Velocity
Booher, Matt – Griffin Global Logistics
Boyle, Tim – Platypus, Inc
Bull, Jeff - Western Nevada College (WNC)
Bulver, Paul - College of Southern Nevada (CSN)
Burkhead, Vonnie – RTC
Catlin, Jim - NSRWC
Cerocke, Steve – IQ Systems
Clifford, Donna - Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC)
Crooks, Fred - Meadows Community College (TMCC)
Doherty, Bill - Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC)
Ellis, Greg - Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC)
Fewell, Art – Cisco Systems, Inc
Flagg, Andy – Mountain Computers Inc
Fredrickson, Judy -Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC)
Gaudreau, M. Thérèse - College of Southern Nevada (CSN)
Geller, Jack – JCM Global
Gillick, John – Cisco Systems, Inc.
Hall, Phil – Datanamics
Harris, Cliff – CenturyLink
Harwood, Randy – College of Southern Nevada (CSN)
Hayashi, Brian – Vegas.com
Hill, Jerry – Nye County School District (NCSD)
Hioki, Warren – Nevada State College (NSC)
Holley, Karen - Nye County School District (NCSD)
Knee, Ken – Vegas.com
Lockwood, Frank – JCM American
Marfino, Mike – BrightPlan IT
McCollough, Steve - VRE Software Engineering
McKenzie – CenturyLink
Miller, Joseph - College of Southern Nevada (CSN)
Mortensen, Cindy - Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC)
Mueller, Marty – Reno/Tahoe International Airport
Murphy, Brett – Great Basin College
Nicholas, Jen – 1Velocity
Notley, Ryan – Vegas.com
Paulbick, John – CenturyLink
Peterson, Stacie – Washoe County School District (WCSD)
Peterson, Dan – JCM
Pittmon, Jerry – JCM Global
Pulling, Kate - College of Southern Nevada (CSN)
Riske, Dave – Western Nevada College (WNC)
Roblee, Mark – CenturyLink
Ross, Tim – Datanamics, Inc
Sawyer, Jack - College of Southern Nevada (CSN)
Steele, Greg – Bally Tech
Taylor, Margaret - College of Southern Nevada (CSN)
Tedford, Cindy - Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC)
Wallace, Jeff - Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC)
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1.
Welcome & Brief Update
Warren Hioki welcomed the group, introduced the NVITE team and thanked everyone for attending.
2.
NVITE Update
Warren provided a brief update on NVITE activities and accomplishments since the last TEBA meeting in
November. Currently, this is the fourth year of the NVITE Project. NSF awarded the project a no-cost extension of the three year grant so we could catch up on some time lost during the PI transition and finish up our efforts to accomplish the final goals outlined in our proposal. The team recently submitted a new proposal for a Phase 2 of the NVITE Project. Unfortunately, this grant proposal was declined, along with several of NVITE’s NSF partners including project, regional, and national technology education ATE center proposals across the country. Although this was very disappointing, we’ve had some great successes including bring the TEBA group together. Through the
TEBA membership partnerships and input, a lot of wonderful things have resulted including jobs, internship opportunities, a strong relationship with Senator Reid’s office, and curriculum and faculty professional development. Many proposals, including NVITE’s Phase 2 proposal, will be resubmitted for consideration in October of 2010. Warren asked TEBA members to consider submitting a letter of support to be included, along with the many corporate letters we already have received, with this new proposal. The team feels we have accomplished a great deal of the leg work and that we have are ready to focus on professional development based on TEBA input.
During the November TEBA meeting we discussed the importance of soft skills/employability skills, in addition to specific technical skills in Fiber Optics, Wireless, & Virtual Computing. During the breakout session we also discussed the overarching idea of measurement of Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) through input from business and industry partners, rather than through traditional accreditation evaluation. NVITE invited TEBA members to participate in student portfolio and project evaluation. We also considered the idea of a soft skills certification course that would cover creative thinking, teamwork, communication, writing skills, the ability to get along with others. Warren reported that the NVITE team presented at the winter MPICT conference on the results of what
TEBA feedback had told us about measuring and assessing of Nevada’s Higher Ed programs and SLOs.
3.
NVITE Supplemental Funding Award
Dr. Bill Doherty reported that, although the Phase 2 proposal was declined, one of the evaluators he spoke with noted that it wasn’t because NSF doesn’t like the work accomplished with the NVITE Project. In fact, they like our work well enough to award us a $100,000 supplement that we talked about at the last TEBA meeting. A portion of the funds will be used as seed money to establish a pool to support an internship program at TMCC and WNC modeled after the CSN Computing and Engineering Technology internship program. The remainder of the funds will be used to support 3D software development curriculum, professional licenses and classroom licenses.
4.
Internship Presentation
Margaret Taylor presented information on the College of Southern Nevada’s paid internship program, it’s development, challenges and revisions. The program was started with funding from a $30,000 Cisco grant.
Approximately 10 interns have participated in the program since its inception. Currently, the program is employing two to three interns are per semester, instead of just one. She spoke about how the program was developed a few years ago and it has been revised to adapt to the changing economy and workforce demand. The current program requests employers to make a tax deductible donation through CSN’s Foundation to the internship fund. The student intern becomes a CSN “student worker” so the company has none of the employment liabilities such as workman’s compensation or unemployment. A Student Voice electronic survey is provided to the employer to give feedback. The employer can report on many areas including how well the student was prepared for the internship based on the courses they completed, what skills should be added to courses, and how the intern preformed.
Margaret offered to provide NVITE with a slide presentation of CSN developed about the CTE internship program.
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Thérèse will send this, via e-mail, to the TEBA members for their review and to share with their colleagues interested in participating in the program.
Bill added that, through the supplemental grant funds, TMCC and WNC programs would pay interns $10 an hour and request employers who choose to employ an intern to make a donation equivalent to $15.00 an hour for the internship period. This would make the program self sustaining.
Bill asked Margaret to elaborate on details of the CSN program. She reported that the CSN internship program requires an intern to log a minimum of 75 hours to earn a 1 credit internship, with the option to earn up to 3 credits. In addition to hours logged, interns are required to submit a weekly status e-mail reporting their activities and what they learned on the job. This accounts for 30% of their grade. At the end of the semester, the intern is required to complete a final report which accounts for 30% of their grade. The employer’s survey and evaluation accounts for 30% of the student’s grade. The final 10% of the grade is dependent on the timeliness and quality of their submitted reporting. Todd Berglund, of 1Velocity, reported that they have hosted several CSN interns and they find these students to be highly motivated. The intern’s skills are fresh in their minds and they are eager to apply these skills and learn more. They have hired one of these interns, and would hire more if the economic climate was better. Margaret commented that 80% of CSN interns have been offered a position by the company after completing their internship.
Brett Murphy remarked that Great Basin College (GBC) is very interest participating in the internship program and will collaborate with Bill and Dave and the GBC faculty on how to create these opportunities for GBC Information and Computer Technology (ICT) students.
Bill reminded TEBA members that they can go to the NVITE Project website at www.NVITEProject.or
g and submit an internship opportunity. Students can also submit internship interest applications from a link on the website.
5.
Other Business
Dave Riske stressed to the group that, even if the Phase 2 proposal is not funded my NSF, the NVITE team will continue to host TEBA meetings to push on with the good work the NVITE Project has begun. He stated that we have all come too far in the process of bringing in TEBA’s ideas into our classrooms and moving towards achieving the NVITE goals to stop now. He did note that, although lunches may not be provided, TEBA participation and input is still needed and highly valued by the CSN, WNC, TMCC and GBC. He asked that TEBA members continue their support of the NVITE Project objectives.
Warren added that Ed Kanet, Linda Foreman, Cathy House, Judy Frederickson, Bill, and Dave are using scenarios in their classes. And many Clark County teachers are integrating Scenario-Based Learning (SBL) into their classes as a result of NVITE SBL training. Many of these scenarios were fueled by the ideas from TEBA meetings and members.
6.
Breakout Session
Warren confirmed that while the southern group will break away to discuss real-world scenarios that can be used in the classroom, the northern group would be discussing the new internship program details and additional scenarios from TEBA members to be added to the Scenario Library NVITE is compiling.
Southern Discussion
Warren opened the discussion on real-world scenarios by revisiting NVITE’s activities on SBL. He turned the TEBA group’s attention to the robotics scenario sample handout and scenario form provided with the meeting agenda.
Using the handout, he discussed the various components of the types of ICT scenarios NVITE’s library collection will include. The library will be housed on the NVITE Project website and be available for faculty to integrate into
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NVITE team would be contacting TEBA members to follow up on these scenario submissions. When the library is created and uploaded to the NVITE Project website, we’ll update the TEBA membership and share it with our faculty across the state and NSF partners across the country.
Northern Discussion
Open discussion with advisory board/TEBA members a.
Discussed that employers want students to bring what they have learned in their classes and apply that knowledge during their internship. i.
Work with mentors ii.
80% of the interns have been offered jobs after the internship. b.
There is an student internship link on the www.NVITEproject.org
i.
Students can fill out the required information ii.
Discussion to have an employer link/application for availability for interns.
1.
Bill Doherty will add the link c.
Steve from RGJ will have an article in the paper regarding internships d.
Discussion about soft and hard skills, hours per week, posting job requirements and expectations. i.
Students should be motivated
2.
Scenario Based Learning a.
Judy Fredrickson asked for scenarios from the advisory board/TEBA members to use in the class curriculum. i.
Objected oriented ii.
Linux b.
Guest speakers to visit these classes and explain real work experiences i.
Apply these scenarios in the curriculum
1.
Specs
2.
Possibility of setting blogs with mentors
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3.
Assessing the scenarios
If interested in participating contact Judy Fredrickson or Cathy House.
Closing
Warren thanked everyone again for attending and sharing their ideas and feedback.
Next meeting will be announced at a later time.
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