Come celebrate the holidays with us at the Region 2000 Technology Council Annual Meeting and Christmas luncheon. We will be enjoying festivities, networking and highlighting 2012 accomplishments as well as presenting a vision for 2013. Don't miss out!

Cost: $15 for Tech Council Members, $20 for Non-Members

The CAER is located at 1173 Research Way, Forest, VA 24551 in the New London Business and Technology Center located on Rt. 460, one mile west of Rt. 811 (Thomas Jefferson Road) intersection in Bedford County, Virginia.

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Our own Jonathan Whitt, Region 2000 Technology Council executive director, was recently featured in Nuclear Power International Magazine - describing the Lynchburg regional area's long term, broad-based commitment to invest in local STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education programs. Our regional initiatives are strongly positioning and preparing our students for a future in a workforce increasingly dominated by science and technology. All these programs are also priming the tech-focused workforce 'pipeline' - greatly benefiting local technology businesses as we raise up a new generation of well-equipped workers, innovators and marketplace leaders.

See below for an excerpt of Jonathan's article and read the entire text: here.

"Virginia's Region 2000 encompasses 2,000 square miles in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains and is home to a surprising number of high tech businesses, including two global nuclear companies - Areva and The Babcock and Wilcox Co.- employing nearly 4,500 in the area. Representatives from economic development, academia and government have seen the need to build and foster a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) ecosystem here, creating the workforce of the future and pointing students toward STEM careers which will continue to be in high demand in the future.

Our Future Focus Foundation managing director Elizabeth Narehood was recently featured on news channel WDBJ7 talking about XLR8: Lynchburg Regional STEM Academy:

"Life after high school can be a scary time for teens, who are trying to figure out what kind of job to pursue.

In our changing economy, many career experts are pushing students toward the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math; referred to collectively as "STEM."

"Not only are they high growth in the number of jobs that are going to be offered, but they're also high growth in the amount of wages that are going to be available for students," said Elizabeth Narehood, managing director for the Future Focus Foundation at Virginia's Region 2000 Partnership.

To help students train for STEM jobs, school and industry leaders in Lynchburg are starting a new academy.  It will be a joint effort of the Region 2000 Technology Council and Future Focus Foundation, Central Virginia Community College, the school divisions of Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Campbell, and Lynchburg.

"It's going to be a great way to make our students career bound and career ready," said Narehood.

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