by monica | Nov 14, 2021 | Community, Education, Makerspace, Projects
Here’s the latest on our K-Career Technology Pipeline. This past October, we even took it up another notch and put everyone in the room together to hash out our local talent development issues in emerging industries. By everyone, I mean the Kentucky Department...
by monica | Nov 4, 2021 | Community, Design, Education, Projects
As an experience designer, research that involves understanding and communicating the student journey is my favorite. In that journey are the key motivators and insights into student behavior. Surprisingly many tend to skip this research phase. I think this...
by monica | Oct 5, 2021 | Community, Design, Education
When I received a last-minute invitation from our achool superintendent to attend a round table discussion with a local tech company, I had no idea what it was going to be about. As I approached the beautiful stone and glass office space with its lush and meticulously...
by monica | May 2, 2020 | Community
Hello! I’m Monica, and I suffer from a bad case of wanderlust. It permeates my entire life, not just the traveling bit. I’ve wandered through professions that have taken me from being a teacher in Kansas to program design in Kenya, East Africa. Returning...
by monica | Mar 27, 2020 | Community, Education, Projects
Jim Collins, in his book Good to Great, identifies key factors for why some organizations achieve greatness and others do not. His third chapter entitled First Who, Then What is about getting the right people in play or as he puts it “on the bus.” This idea is...
by monica | Nov 14, 2016 | Community, Design, Education, Makerspace, Projects
They asked for “out of the box,” and so we delivered. After working for over 18 months on this concept from user experiences to analogous research in and out of state, to many, many, many industry conversations, I present our Work ready concept as the...
