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Looks like a great class for area girls interested in technology. A great way to boost our future knowledge workers! TXT2012: Teens eXperiencing Technical education July 30-August 3, 2012 Girls in grades 5-8 Dakota County Technical College Rosemount, Minnesota For more information: www.dctc.edu/go/txt Hands-on Workshops in: – Science – Technology – Design – Business [...] The Department of Employment and Economic Development has developed Digital Inclusion curriculum that is available online. The curriculum targets very new computer users and is available to anyone. It’s one project available to Dakota County to help bridge the digital divide – especially with the far end of the divide. DEED is a project [...] In our efforts to become an Intelligent Community, we are focusing on digital inclusion for Dakota County as a tech center. Over the next few weeks we are hoping to highlight Digital Inclusion programs and details in Dakota County. Lakeville North High School has a program called Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), an elective class designed to put kids on a track toward not only getting into college but staying there and excelling. It’s a class designed not for the accelerated students or the students who are falling behind – but for the [...] This is a great opportunity from Dakota Future members Inver Hills Community College and Xcel Energy. Please pass it on. Entrepreneurship can be a great way to break out of unemployment or a dead end job and training can help get great ideas off the ground. It’s a win-win proposition. We encourage anyone eligible [...] Dakota County Libraries – 220 computers for public access computers in ten locations. Workforce Centers – Computer labs, computer training classes and ad hoc computer assistance. Dakota County Technical College – 356 particiants with the DCTC Project Work Plan since inception. Inver Hills Community Collge – is part of a 3 college consortium of [...] Dakota Future has recognized the critical nature of the digital inclusion challenge. In our broadband policy, we state “Broadband access should be affordable and competitively priced when compared to our global competitors. For those who cannot afford home broadband and the necessary computer, public access should be made available at schools, libraries, senior and [...] |
Innovation Networks are business-driven peer groups around key business processes, enabling sharing of information and best practices between Dakota County companies. Our first two networks – Lean Processes and Advanced IT are about to launch. (Learn more)
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