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An "EPIC" Approach to Connecting Youth & Business #588

Open mozfest-bot opened 8 years ago

mozfest-bot commented 8 years ago

[ ID ] 42879fa9-49e9-4870-8b1b-ff9a940dc690

[ Submitter's Name ] Michael Lemon [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] University of Kansas - Center for Public Partnerships and Research [ Submitter's Twitter ] @Lemonization

[ Space ] badges [ Secondary Space ] exhibit

[ Format ] demo, fireside

Description

Our research center was granted an opportunity to partner with school districts, technical schools, and afterschool providers to tackle the 21st Century skill deficit of youth entering college or the workforce. With seed money from the Kansas Department for Children and Families we developed the EPIC (Education, Practice, and Immersion for Credit) Project pilot, serving two rural Kansas communities. By bringing together local businesses and the afterschool community we provide experiential opportunities for youth through digital badging. This session will outline project development, celebrate successes, and share lessons learned.

Agenda

The presenters will walk the participants through the process of working with after-school organizations, and business and community leaders to develop a curriculum, incorporate hands-on opportunities, develop incentives and curate content for digital badges for middle school youth.

Participants

A lightning talk will be much the same with 3 or 25 participants. A fireside chat would be shifted slightly for the audience to be more interactive with fewer participants, offering them the ability to guide the conversation, based on the experiences we've had in developing the EPIC program.

Outcome

We see ourselves as mentors who would be available to consult with others interested in developing similar programs in their communities. Nothing is "one size fits all" but the toolkit we have developed outlines steps that most communities can follow to create something that resembles the EPIC program.

Manda2831 commented 8 years ago

Here's a video about our program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAyMQlo70zA

Manda2831 commented 8 years ago

Does "Session accepted" mean that we will be invited to present and that our stipend request will be fulfilled? Should we be expecting a confirmation email and instructions? We're really looking forward to this! Thank you!

mattdigitalme commented 8 years ago

Indeed it does @Manda2831 Can you please send me the email address or the session facilitator who requires the travel stipend.

Thanks

Matt

Manda2831 commented 8 years ago

Thanks @mattdigitalme! I just emailed you our information.

Mike321123 commented 8 years ago

Hi Matt,

That’s wonderful news!

Here is our information:

Thanks,

Michael

MICHAEL LEMON, MS Research Project Manager

CENTER FOR PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS & RESEARCH UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Direct 785-864-7079 Cell 785-979-8111 Find us online:http://cppr.ku.eduhttp://cppr.ku.edu/

From: Matt Rogers notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com> Reply-To: MozillaFoundation/mozfest-program-2016 reply@reply.github.com<mailto:reply@reply.github.com> Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 4:33 PM To: MozillaFoundation/mozfest-program-2016 mozfest-program-2016@noreply.github.com<mailto:mozfest-program-2016@noreply.github.com> Cc: Michael Lemon mlemon1@ku.edu<mailto:mlemon1@ku.edu>, Manual manual@noreply.github.com<mailto:manual@noreply.github.com> Subject: Re: [MozillaFoundation/mozfest-program-2016] An "EPIC" Approach to Connecting Youth & Business (#588)

Indeed it does @Manda2831https://github.com/Manda2831 Can you please send me the email address or the session facilitator who requires the travel stipend.

Thanks

Matt

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Manda2831 commented 7 years ago

@mattdigitalme just checking in. We haven't seen an email so we wanted to make sure we didn't miss it. Do you know when we'll be getting details so we can make arrangements? Thanks!