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In this issue:
Time is Running Out to Register for the Fourth Annual Alabama Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference
Innovation Week: what's happening Monday
Alabama adds construction jobs in August
Southwest Alabama eighth-graders to experience 'Worlds of Opportunity' Sept. 24-25 during fifth annual hands-on employment showcase
Huntsville engineering, defense contractor is nation's best medium-size workplace, Fortune Magazine

  

 

Time is Running Out to Register for the Fourth Annual Alabama  Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference!

 

  The Conference starts Thursday!

 

 

Have you registered?

 

 

We are looking forward to seeing you there.

 

Visit Alabama Launchpad for a full conference agenda and to register.

 

 

  

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Innovation Week: what's happening Monday

on September 22, 2014 

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- This is the first day of Birmingham's annual Innovation Week. 

 

You can check out the public Google calendar I built for the whole week activities by clicking here. 

 

Here's what's happening today: 

 

Innovation Week ribbon cutting and proclamation

Join the founding partners and City of Birmingham officials as we cut the ribbon and officially kick-off the inaugural Innovation Week Birmingham.

 
 

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Alabama adds construction jobs in August
Reporter-Birmingham Business Journal
Sept. 22, 2014

Alabama is one of 28 states to have added construction jobs between July and August.

 

The state actually added jobs for three consecutive months and has tacked on over 2,000 jobs from August 2013, according to data released recently by the Associated General Contractors of America.

 

The 81,900 construction jobs in Alabama logged during August is the largest number in a single month in 2014 and is 2.8 percent higher than July's 79,700 total.



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Southwest Alabama eighth-graders to experience 'Worlds of Opportunity' Sept. 24-25 during fifth annual hands-on employment showcase
September 22, 2014

MOBILE, Alabama - More than 10,000 eighth graders will get a sneak peek later this week at the job market awaiting them during the Southwest Alabama Workforce Development Council's fifth annual Worlds of Opportunity Career Expo.

The two-day event, slated for Sept. 24-25 at the Mobile Civic Center, attracts students from eight southwest Alabama counties and immerses them in a hands-on interactive career exploration experience led by business professionals representing 12 key south Alabama industries.

 

"Eighth grade is a critical career discovery year for students because this is the year students select their coursework pathways for the remainder of their high school years and beyond," Michelle Bowden, spokeswoman for Austal USA, said.

 

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Huntsville engineering, defense contractor is nation's best medium-size workplace, Fortune Magazine says
on September 22, 2014 

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Only one Alabama company made Fortune Magazine's 2014 list of the best medium-size workplaces in the U.S.

 

Intuitive Research and Technology Corp., a Huntsville engineering and defense contractor with 279 employees, came in at No. 1 on the 11th-annual Great Place to Work ranking presented by Fortune, an American business publication. It was the company's fifth straight year to be included in the top 10 Great Place to Work ranking.

 

Officials accepted the award recently in Washington, D.C. Intuitive co-founder and President Harold Brewer said the ranking is a reflection on the local community because "Huntsville/Madison County has been an amazing place to grow our business."


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