Defense Contractors Need Technical Employees
(Excerpts from an article by Mark Smith, The Business Monthly)
Area defense contractors have a pressing need for skilled technical employees. Middle and high school students need career counseling, encouragement and opportunities. And businesses and government entities in the Corridor need high tech workers - and lots of them. Now. That's why the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Center at Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) is becoming an ever more important cog in the area's educational wheel as those middle and high school students contemplate their career options.
Rich Cerkovnik, director of the STEM center, said that AACC's budget for its STEM program is relatively small. But he quickly noted that Anne Arundel County has provided approximately $450,000 for the program, plus an additional $550,000 to build the first two STEM labs at the Arundel Mills campus by next year, with more planned. "For the students, a STEM career can be an abstract or unknown item," he said, "so providing them with internships and interaction allows them to learn what a STEM career is all about."
Beat The Summer Heat with Low Energy Rates
Join us at noon on June 23 for an informational webinar
It is not too late to join the BWCC Energy Cooperative before your summer energy costs increase. Join us at noon on June 23 for an informational webinar to discuss why joining the Energy Cooperative can give you budget stability and help keep your energy costs lower this summer. Negotiated Electric Rates reflect a potential savings of around 11% and the Gas Rates reflect a savings of around 20% for the next 12 months.
Mr. Powell, who began his tenure on June 15, brings with him over 33 years of experience in the public transportation industry, working on systems in Connecticut, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Massachusetts.
Howard County Purchasing Opportunities for Minority Business Owners
In an effort to obtain greater participation by minority-owned, women-owned and businesses owned by people with disabilities, business in Howard County’s Equal Business Opportunity program, the Office of Purchasing kindly asks your organization to forward this e-mail and website link to businesses that might be interested in doing business with Howard County. Thank you for your assistance in distributing Howard County’s purchasing opportunities.
BWCC President Jumps with the Army’s Parachute Team, The Golden Knights
It Was a Long Way Down!
Golden Knights SSG Joe Jones and BWCC President & CEO Walt Townshend.
The two-day program was called the ARMY STRONG Experience, and brought together business and community leaders from the region and elsewhere in the country to experience first-hand what the modern Army is doing in recruitment, training and skills development.
At the Melwood Prince George’s County Open, one of 29 tournaments played around the world on the Nationwide Tour and broadcast worldwide on the Golf Channel, members and guests of the Baltimore Washington Corridor Chamber and guests joined with other chambers and business associations for a Business Mixer on June 4, 2009.
Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson (center) talks with John Lupo, SeniorManager, Community & Government, Kaiser Permanente (left) and an incoming BWCC Board member, and BWCC President & CEO, Walt Townshend.
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