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Sustaining Success and Advancing Innovation
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HCC Based Regional Center of Excellence in High-Tech Manufacturing Receives Funding Renewal from NSF Florida Advanced Technological Education (FLATE) Center, the National Science Foundation (NSF) regional center of excellence in manufacturing at Hillsborough Community College (HCC) in Brandon, was awarded an unprecedented third round of center-level funding for an Advanced Technological Education (ATE) regional center of excellence. Read More >> |
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HiTEC - The 2014 High Impact Technology Exchange Conference July 21-24 (HiTEC) will be held in downtown Chicago. Click here for more info. |
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FACTE Annual Conference July 28 |
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FLATE – DIDI Girls Manufacturing Camp Jul 28-31 Miami, FL |
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NSF STEM Guitar Building Summer Institutes Aug 4-8 (Sorry all filled up) HCC and Erwin Tech |
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FLATE IAC Meeting September 11th Brewster Technical Center, Tampa, FL |
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Engineering Technology Forum SEPT 25-26 Hosted at Gulf Coast State College (Panama City, FL) |
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Manufacturing Day - 2014 Oct 3, 2014 |
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2014 National Career Pathways Conference (NCPN) Oct 12-14 The 2014 conference will be held in Orlando, FL. |
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NSF ATE PI Meeting OCT 22-24 Washington DC |
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NCWE Oct 30 -31 Pittsburg, PA |
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National Educators Workshop NOV 2-4 Seattle, WA |
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I/ITSEC 2014 Dec 1-4 Teacher and Student Workshops at I/ITSEC in partnership with FHTCC http://www.iitsec.org/Pages/default.aspx |
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Annual Manufacturing Summit & FLATE Awards Dec 3-5 MAF - Destin, FL at the Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort www.mafmfg.com |
STEM at Work
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Puzzle 40 |
Welcome to sTEm-at-work ! As we move to the half way point in our fourth year of puzzles, the puzzles will still kept their operational visual mantra; Provide data as an analog plot that can be used to answer the posed yes/no question. These questions will always reflect some activity that a technician performs but the puzzle plots will not have much (if any) specific magnitude information associated with the graph's abscissa and ordinate. The goal is to have the reader assess the situation from the shapes of the plots and, combined with the verbiage in the puzzle statement, make an informed decision and select an answer. As is the case for technicians in real situations, the puzzle may not have all the information the reader wants, but that's all that the situation has to offer. However, a decision still has to be made. (As you have requested, we will continue to offer a new puzzle every other month, with brief narratives on the puzzles offered in the alternate months.) Previous Puzzles are 