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Our Story so far(Attachment to Q4 2008 Report)


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As of December 31, 2008 all measurable outcomes established bythe DOL have been met:

Over13,000 individuals beginning Workforce TrainingOver6,000 individuals completing Workforce Training

Over1,000 degrees or certificates earnedOver3,000 individuals placed

Leverage as reported by our

program partners:

Over $16,000,000

THE SUMMARY of where we are

The details of our story follow


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North CentralIndiana was

selected to be one

of DOLs original

13 grantees


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administered through theIndiana Department ofWorkforce Development and

Purdue University

WorkforceInnovation in

Regional

EconomicDevelopment

A $15 M grant,


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Serving 14 counties, 15 cities5,577 Square Miles

Two population centers:Lafayette/West Lafayette 88,362

Kokomo 46,074

Much of the region is rural


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Buildinga culture of Entrepreneurship

Creating

Globally Competitive Industries

Developinga workforce with 21st Century Skills

Weavingsupportive civic networks

4 Key Initiatives established


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Creating

Globally Competitive Industries





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Our Story So Far

Vision Provide existing and emerging entrepreneurs

with new learning opportunities and new resources

Educate future entrepreneurs

Help existing businesses become more entrepreneurial

Assist local communities in developing Entrepreneurship Development Strategies

Students Over 400 trainedOver 4,000 more to be trained7 New Entrepreneurship curricula programs developed

Teachers 91 trained in Entrepreneurship

Over 50 more to be trained

Entrepreneurs Over 1,000 trained (existing and emerging)

$177,000 in business information resourcesnewly available in each of10 regional communities.


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Home of the 2007 and 2008 Entrepreneurship Academies

37 Regional Students Trained in Entrepreneurship 200748 Regional Students Trained in Entrepreneurship 2008

The next Academy will be held in June 2009

An early success forWIRED & the region


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High-achieving STEM studentslearn how to run a businessand make elevator pitchescount.

Develop a marketing plan to make the numbers work.
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and take home the prize!

Every student receives 3 credits

towards Purdues EntrepreneurshipCertificate program.

A winner of the 2008David E. Ross Award

for Entrepreneurial Distinction


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To Reach Entrepreneurs:Region-Wide Entrepreneurship EducationPrograms and Business Plan Competition

Multiple workshops and speakers:

How to write a Business Plan

How to sell your idea

Marketing basics

Partner:Indiana Venture

Center


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Programs were held throughout theregion and these entrepreneurs ..

..became the 11 finalists for the

final competition.


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Presentations were made,

students and mentorslooked on while the judgesscored.

The audience was

challenged by Keynotespeaker Barry Moltz, author:

Bounce! Failure, Resiliency and the Confidence to

Achieve Your Next Great Success

The big day came..


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Allyson Faucett won the $10,000 second-place prize for plans toexpand her line of soy-based body care products.

Patrick Cooley won the third-place prize of $5,000 for a moveablecargo-tray system for pickup trucks.

Shane Fimbel wonfirst place fordevelopingtechnology thatallows neonatalintensive caredoctors to monitora fetus' bloodpressure usingtransmitted lightinstead of a painfulcatheter.

And the winners are..

**Prize money was contributed by corporate donors.


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Partnering with the extension and SBDCoffices, WIRED makes the business resourcesof Krannert School of Managementavailable to local entrepreneurs in 10 locationsthroughout the regionover $177,000 inbusiness information and licenses.

e-BINEntrepreneurship Business Information Network


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Partnering with ICEE to Train

48 Teachers how to organize aClassroom Business Enterprise

1200 students will be impacted!


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ICEE also partnered with

WIRED to work with regional

students and teachers at theEntrepreneurship Youth

Institute

Result:80 students and 17

teachers were impacted

by this program.


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Create a skunk works team to keepdisplaced engineers in the community,

investigate potential innovations andcreate more jobs.

WIRED provided the opportunity for the

Kokomo community to respond quickly todevastating economic news of immediatereductions in workforce.


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Goal: To have a positive and measurable impact onthe formation, growth, and sustainability of small

businesses in Indiana and developing strong

entrepreneurial community.

WIRED Partnered with the Hoosier Heartland SBDC to develop anEntrepreneur Talent Development System.

Tools:Entrepreneur Skills Assessment

Personal Evaluation and CoachingGroup Learning Sessions

16 Entrepreneurs are currently enrolled


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Kokomo AreaCareer Center

Partnered with WIRED to

develop anEntrepreneurship Academy

and curriculum

96 Students Trained,

9 School Corporations,5 Counties

Doubling E at IUK

61 Students Enrolled inEntrepreneurshipEnhanced courses


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CreatingGlobally Competitive Industries





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Vision Link and leverage university and industry assets to make firms

more globally competitive

Develop leading-edge skills in workers at the same time werecreating new industry demand for those skills through technology & innovation transfer

Implement new skill development programs that demonstrate immediate ROI to industry

Programs: Agribusiness Global Supply Chain Management

Industrial Energy Efficiency

Healthy Workforce

Green Worker Certificate

Nanostructured Coatings Technology Transfer

Energy Systems Network

Innovations Link

Our Story So Far

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Developed and PilotedEnergy Use Mapping tool

Return on Investment expected to exceed

$1.12M per year

Value StreamMapping (VSM) is

to walk the line

collecting data onthe Current State of

a process.

25 companies engaged

4 new curricula developed111 Workers being Trained

32 Workers Received Certification

The Infrared Imager camera can see

both visible and infrared light,

overlay them in a single image, and

identify an overloaded hot circuit.

Energy Efficiency


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Purdue launchesHealthy WorkforceProgram

Certified by the State of Indiana

12 Implementations started & 9 completed10 New Curricula282 Health Risk Assessments completed

~800 individuals beginning training

578 individuals completed training & received certification

The goals for this program include:

Training workers

to be better consumers of Health Care Services.Training employers

to offer more effective wellness programs.


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Nanostructured Coatings Technology Transfer:

285 Employees Completed training

144 Certificates Earned14 Companies

$.5M Return on Investment

Soon to be incorporated into Ivy Tech curriculum

Green Workforce:Nations first Green Manufacturingtraining program developed

3 new curricula~ 250 workers to be trained

10 companies engaged

95students trained


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Hoosier Heavy Hybrid Partnership : to develop a fully integrated hybrid power train system

using IN components and demonstrate next generation plugin hybrid technology for light, medium,and heavy duty vehicles;

Project PlugIN: a firstofitskind commercial scale demonstration of plugin hybrid & smartgridtechnology working together to exhibit a vehicletogrid system solution for Indianapolis MSA, and;

Distributed Power Generation : a solution to allow grid independence & support renewableenergy development by addressing intermittent power challenge.

Indiana Energy Systems Network:A new cluster organization focused on the development of

Indianas energy technology clean tech sector

Partnered with WIRED to evaluate the Workforce needs relating to these

3 initial IESN commercialization projects :
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Generating Ideas for top-line growth throughoutthe NCI region.

612 Growth ideas created123 Employees trained in idea creation62 Employees trained in action planning17 Employees trained as business

Growth Champions

11 Businesses contracted16 New Products or Services

Over $5M Return on Investment

Impact on Jobs:

38 retained

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Tools and templates for matching industries capacities with new technologies.

An automated, standalone, webbased database that could be used by

any economic development organization

Rolled out to all members of the Indiana EconomicDevelopment Association in December 2008

PARTNERS:Purdue Office of Technology and Commercialization (OTC ) andPurdue Department of Computer and Information Technology (CIT)


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Vision

Develop STEM Skills in the emerging workforce

Help the existing workforce to get the skills, credentials,and resources needed to be part of the 21st Century economy

Equip older workers and the companies that employ them to be

productive in this transitioning regional economy

Results

Over 7,000 students in PLTW

Over $2.5M leveraged in training funds in the region

Over 8,000 workers assessed

Over 400 students enrolled in New Tech High

84 students enrolled at the new White County Instructional Center

Our Story So Far


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Advanced Manufacturing Summer CampGuitar Workshop 2008

17 students from the region learnedadvanced manufacturing skills


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Partnered with WIRED to develop anAlternative Energy Program

105 Students Trained

10 Teachers Trained9 New curricula

"One of the smallest , striving to be the best"

Tri County High School, Wolcott, IN


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~8000job candidates assessed

~150 employers usingREACH services

Over 3100 workers placed

Over $1 M increased training

funds in the region.

WIREDWorkforce Partner


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Manufacturing Skill Standard Councilthe gold standard in portable manufacturing certificates

163 Individuals beginning training

126 Completed training73 Received Certificates

Maturity MattersPrepare businesses for the demographic reality of the mature workforce

Promoting skill development in mature and aging workers

Create learning opportunities to support employment of older workers

* Thousands of hits on the Lifelong Learning Systems website

* 7 Workshops conducted with employers impacting 6400 employees* Workshops to continue throughout 2009.


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ZEBRA NEW TECHHIGH

Rochester School Corporation

406 Students enrolled

14 Teachers trained in STEM

16 Teachers trained by NTH foundation

Gaining National Attention

The only fullyimplemented NTHin the State of Indiana

186 Individuals toured NTH

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Project Lead the Way

7,187 Students enrolled

36 New Schools34 Teachers Trained

Student density map

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21 School Corporations

Project Lead the Way


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White CountyInstructional Center

An old medical arts buildingA determined group of civic leaders

Partnerships with WIRED and Ivy TechEQUALS

A state of the art training facility

86 students enrolled in the fall 2008 semester16 college credit courses offered66 students enrolled in WorkOne classes

15 incumbent workers trained

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Our Story So FarVision

Create a stronger regional network of organizations

that can help foster regional leadership Engage a growing number of regional leaders in developing a vision for the future and in

the development of strategies to move the region toward that vision

Results The Regional Leadership Institute is underway!

Over

400individuals involved in listening sessions with

63 members committed to Civic Leadership Institute.NOV 14, 2008: Inaugural session was held.

Caught in the Middle Reading & discussion groups formed

Facebook discussion group established

Community BestPractice Visits Planned:

Western Michigan Strategic Alliance

Piedmont Triad

Vision 2015 (Northern Kentucky)

F d H k Di f C i i S di


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IU K InterimChancellor

Stuart Green

Bill Stephan

Vice President for Engagement, Indiana University

Fred Hakes, Director of Continuing Studies

Sue Giesecke,Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences

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Continued Leadership in various sessions throughout the region:

CEAP Community Economic Adjustment ProgramHosted a regional meeting of 25 leaders to assess the critical needs throughout NCI.

Learned how funds from the EDA/ CEAP grant may be obtained.

Participated in the CEAP broader community workshop with over 100 in attendance.

GKEDA The Greater Kokomo Economic Development Alliance

WIREDs experience has provided direction in the formation of a newactionoriented EDA; WIRED Staff have participated in Organizational meetings

Open Source Network model is being used led by Ed Morrison

Workforce meetings Statewide and regional

Partners:US Department of Commerce EDAUniversity of Michigan
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The Buzz


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updated: 3/10/2008 3:07:46 PM

WIRED Offering "Green"

Manufacturing Training

InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report

WIRED (Workforce Innovation in RegionalEconomic Development) Indiana is now offering anew Green Manufacturing Certificate Program.The free program available to industrial firms in a14county region in northcentral Indianaeducates workers in the principles of cleanmanufacturing, energy conservation and waste

reduction. The first training takes place May 1216in West Lafayette, with another planned forKokomo in June.


State Grant to Boost Growth of Inventrek

Technology Park

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Inventrek Technology Park in Kokomo has received amajor grant from theIndiana Economic DevelopmentCorp. The funds are provided through the Technology

Development Grant program and are being used to helpthe park grow and attract new hightech ventures.We did receive a grant for $900,000, says General ManagerJan Hendrix. $600,000 of that will be for capitalimprovements and the other $300,000 will be for operatingexpenses.

updated: 5/28/2008 11:48:00 AM

Governor to Mark Construction of

Wind Farm


Benton County residents will be joined byIndiana Governor Mitch Daniels andrepresentatives from BP Alternative Energy

North America to mark the construction of theFowler Ridge Wind Farm in Benton County. A"blade signing" ceremony will take place,allowing everyone in attendance theopportunity to sign a large turbine blade thatwill be used at the facility.Source: Inside INdiana Business

Workshops helping teachersto lead the wayMore than 100 educators take part in Lead the Way trainingBy DANIELLE RUSHTribune staff writerWhen Chris Byam started teaching computeraided designclasses at the Kokomo Area Career Center in 2000, he wasthe first teacher in Indiana teaching Project Lead the Way

curriculum.

Hes taught the class, the high school entrylevel course inthe preengineering curriculum, since then, and startingthis fall, he will teach engineering design and development,which is the senior capstone course in the program.

updated: 5/28/2008 7:25:11 AM

BioTown Prepares For New Energy

Facility


Groundbreaking ceremonies are planned for July

on a new renewable energy production unit inReynolds, also known as BioTown. The LafayetteJournal & Courier reports that a recentlyfinalized10year agreement calls for the construction ofanaerobic digesters in the town. BioTown Ag andEnergy Systems Group will form BioTown EnergyLLC to build and operate the digesters.

Entrepreneurs enter finalroundEleven finalists presented their final, polished businessideas Friday at the Brandywine/Best Western to see whowould walk away with the top prize in the Incubicityentrepreneurial competition. Incubicity, sponsored byWIRED (Workforce Innovations in Regional EconomicDevelopment), and in conjunction with Indiana VentureCenter, is an initiative program to inspire entrepreneurship

and economic development in north central Indiana andfinalists who made it through local competitions had achance at a first prize of $25,000 to further their idea.

Pssst. Hey, kid. Wanna spendyour summer vacation learningabout advanced manufacturing?

No?How about 10hour days doing math and

science? Didnt think so. Ok, then, how

does guitar fantasy camp sound?

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Guitar workshop givessentimental values to studentsBy Natalie BankaPublication Date: 07/21/08Summer Reporter

Last week, amid the smells of varnish and sawdustin a humid manufacturing lab, a group of guitarenthusiasts from across the country worked diligentlyin the hopes of making mechanical music.

The 2008 Purdue Guitar Manufacturing Workshop took place last week, with 27 participants turning blocks of woodinto quality electric guitars over a fiveday period. The workshop attracts all kinds of people, from high schoolstudents to professionals to retirees. What unites the group is its interest in guitars."By building on that natural enthusiasm, you get a lot of learning opportunities," said Mark French, an assistant

professor of mechanical engineering technology and a staff member in the workshop.Taking the workshop doesn't mean one needs to have indepth knowledge of manufacturing. French said anyone whohad "the potential to get a C in high school wood shop" could do fine in the workshop. Although people do makemistakes in the manufacturing, they typically can be recovered from.French himself has been making guitars for 18 years. He said mistakes always happen; they just get smaller.He also teaches a guitarmaking class in the spring semester. MET 490G, "Instrument Manufacturing andTechnology," is open to all Purdue students; in fact, French tries to reserve spots for students who aren't inmechanical engineering technology. The course regularly fills u p.

More Buzz

Helping the unemployedby Denise MassiePharosTribune staff writer

February 07, 2009 09:20 pmDeanna Crispen, Cass County leader for the Regional Leadership Institute, said

the institute was created from the Workforce Innovation in RegionalEconomic Development grant through Indiana University Kokomo. Shesaid the group was made up of leaders from 14 counties.The purpose of the group is to develop a plan to help the region move forwardtogether.The ultimate goal of the institute is to attract jobs. Crispen said members willtravel to three counties that have succeeded in attracting jobs to find out howthey did it.After evaluating other regions practices, local group members will try to come upwith a regional plan for economic development.


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