Taking Flight e-communicator: Cleared for arrival
June 17, 2011
New and improved - action packed issue
The Center of Excellence for Aerospace and Advanced Materials Manufacturing has been toggling a lot of controls this year. In the past year, we have made connections throughout the state with other partner agencies to enhance continuing education, align programs to jobs, develop outreach activities for students of all ages, and made some great friends.
In Washington State, those involved and interested in aerospace and manufacturing have a strong unified goal to endow our schools to produce the best qualified students, and for our businesses to produce world-class products.
The Center of Excellence is proud to interact with and sponsor events that will further our reputation in Washington state as a leader in aerospace and advanced materials manufacturing.
In this issue...
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Joining aerospace leaders from around the world, we will view 2,000 exhibits, meet with 138,000 worldwide visitors, and see the latest innovations of 100's of new aircraft products. more ... |
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Focused learning for teens: Skills Centers  Teenagers...sometimes you wonder if and how they'll make it to adulthood. But regardless of what they have to do to get there, they all need job training to become productive members of society.Washington State Skills Centers offer hands-on work that gets the kids working sooner and with better skills.
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Synergystic Connections Part III
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Mother/daughter TEA - Steeping into mainstream groups  The Mother/daughter TEA is less about drinking tea and powdered cakes and more about getting girls engaged in technology and engineering aptitudes. If you've got a girl interested in math and science - quick - get her to the nearest TEA to keep her interest piqued!
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Tough times for many = top training for some
Learn more about how through collaboration all things are possible.
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 Center of Excellence for Aerospace is expanding our reach. We now have two new employees helping us to connect, influence, and inspire in this industry.Meet the staff.
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Rewind: Air Washington re-issues the community college directory  Air Washington, a consortium of 26 aerospace and advanced manufacturing education and training organizations across the state have collaborated on updating and re-issuing a directory of programs.more ... |
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This quarterly e-newsletter is written and edited by Jennifer Ferrero, Vanilla Bean Consulting on behalf of the Center of Excellence for Aerospace and Advanced Materials Manufacturing. Please direct any questions about this publication or submit story ideas to Jennifer Ferrero. more ... |
Center of Excellence for Aerospace and Advanced Materials Manufacturing has set off with a team of Washington State aerospace leaders to the Paris Air Show. 
Finding natural synergy between companies can create great partnerships. Find out what synergies are occurring between Washington State aerospace companies in this ongoing series, Synergystic Connections. 
The Puget Sound region offers a host of service groups bringing the unemployed and disadvantaged into progressive careers in environmentally friendly manufacturing called the GreenLight Project.