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GE Gives $50 Million To Boston For Schools, Clinics And Job Training

Tomas Kellner
April 04, 2016
GE will give $50 million in philanthropic funding for schools, job training and healthcare to Boston, its new home.
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How Data Can Drive the Road to Better Education

Cindy Cisneros Committee For Economic Development Of The Conference Board
Aimee Guidera President And Ceo Of The Data Quality Campaign
March 03, 2016
We have robust information on education in the United States. Now we need an educational culture that values the data.
 
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Stacey Jarrett Wagner and Edward Youdell Talk: Robots — Love ‘Em Or Hate ‘Em, They’re Here To Stay

Ed Youdell Fabricators And Manufacturers Association
Stacey Jarrett Wagner The Jarrettwagner Group
December 15, 2014
Stacey: Well, it seems we all survived the mid-term elections in spite of the robots.
 

Ed: Robots, what robots?

Stacey: Robo-calls. Those annoying automatic messages from the candidates trying to get you to believe they know you personally and are here to help.
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Dennis DeTurck and Bruce Lenthall: Transforming STEM Education

Dennis Deturck University Of Pennsylvania
Bruce Lenthall University Of Pennsylvania
December 12, 2014
Imagine an introductory college physics class where instead of sitting in a lecture hall, students work in small teams to predict the height from which an object must slide or roll downhill to successfully complete a loop-the-loop without leaving the track. They then do the experiment and analyze how accurate their predictions were.
 
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Stacey Jarrett Wagner: Help Wanted — Ensuring the Success of Regional Collaborations

Stacey Jarrett Wagner The Jarrettwagner Group
December 04, 2014
At a recent conference near Washington, D.C., the sound of deflation was palpable. No, this was not a financial conference; it was focused on closing America’s skills gap.
 

Talk of these stubborn gaps often takes my breath away, because the country has worked so hard since the Great Recession to grow jobs and the economy. Conference hotels should provide oxygen tanks for meeting participants seeking to solve the skills gap problem.
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David C. Chavern: Ideas May Strike Like Lightning, but Innovation Must Be Cultivated

David C Chavern U S Chamber Of Commerce
December 03, 2014
The idea for an invention or a new technology may strike unexpectedly, but innovation — putting those ideas to work in our society and our economy — is no accident. It doesn’t just happen. It must be cultivated. It requires the right elements, working in concert.
 

At the national level, we can and must do more to foster innovation. It will keep our economy humming, our businesses competitive and hiring, our manufacturers producing, our standard of living rising and our wages high.

There are five essential ingredients for innovation:
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Raghu Krishnamoorthy: The Most Valuable Currency

Raghu Krishnamoorthy GE
November 21, 2014
What’s the most critical currency in today’s global economy? Jobs.
 
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Brittany Singh: How Can We Stay Smarter Than Machines?

Brittany Singh B Educated
October 07, 2014
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the sum of many great human minds to apprehend the environment and make sound decisions to achieve success. To exist, AI needs to encapsulate three things: hardware, software and the input/output mechanisms that work together to enable the machine to perform intelligently. In essence, AI equips machines for divergent thinking, to inspire a wider scope of thinking and creativity.
 
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Janet Crawford: Innovation’s Neural Paradox

Janet Crawford Cascadance
September 30, 2014
Great innovations often seem stunningly simple and obvious…after the fact. Innovation happens, according to Matt Ridley, “when ideas have sex.” But why don’t more interesting ideas find ways to attract each other and mate? Why does innovation play hard to get?
 
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Jennifer McNelly: Women in Manufacturing — An Untapped Resource

Jennifer Mcnelly The Manufacturing Institute
September 18, 2014
Janae Owens, an Environment, Health and Safety Manager at GE, is an example of an exceptional leader. Exceptional, in part, because she overcame the odds of being a woman in manufacturing and becoming the go-to EHS Specialist with GE On-site Machining and Repairs. Because of her great work, Janae was honored as a STEP Award Honoree in 2014.
 
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