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In all of its workforce initiatives, the Council's goal is to foster
the development of an adequate supply of skilled workers. Known nationally
for leadership in this area, the Council has pioneered programs in
two areas:
Training
- Software Council Fellowship Program, a groundbreaking
program that retrained people from other industries for jobs in
the software & Internet industry. The program graduated approximately
600 people and served as the model for similar programs in other
parts of the country. Ninety-five percent of the graduates were
able to find jobs in the industry.
K-12
- Wrote, produced and distributed free to all Massachusetts schools,
"The Switched-On Classroom", a guide
to writing technology plans for public schools. This publication
has been credited with helping to launch the Educational Technology
Revolution in Massachusetts. Ten thousand copies of the book were
distributed to interested parties in all 50 states and half a
dozen countries.
- Founded and organized the Massachusetts Tech Corps,
which recruited volunteers to help with technology-related projects
in schools and served as the inspiration for a national rollout
of the U.S. Tech Corps. More than 800 volunteers were recruited
to assist schools throughout the state.
- One of three principal organizers, under the leadership of Senator
Kennedy, of Massachusetts Net Days, which helped
to partially or wholly wire about half the public schools in Massachusetts
with the help of more than 15,000 volunteers and more than $26
million in products and services donated to the schools.
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