Collaborative Research: Akamai Workforce Initiative

Akamai劳动力计划（AWI）是一个跨学科项目，旨在与高科技行业、尖端研究和创新教育合作，以满足夏威夷天文学、遥感和其他技术行业的需求。UCSC自适应光学中心，夏威夷大学毛伊岛社区学院，毛伊岛经济发展委员会和夏威夷大学天文研究所将通过AWI合作，通过创新的，文化相关的课程，为多样化的学生群体提供电光培训，旨在满足劳动力的需求。AWI将推动这些akami-聪明，聪明，专家-学生进入毛伊岛的技术劳动力，更广泛地在夏威夷。AWI的目标是：-整合夏威夷土著文化，探究式学习和其他创新的教学实践到毛伊岛社区学院新的电光工程技术计划的各个方面;-建立科学家，工程师和教育工作者的合作，以支持技术管道和设计和教授探究式活动;在夏威夷，增加妇女、夏威夷土著人和其他代表性不足的群体对工程技术教育和就业的参与;以及在毛伊岛县当地社区之间建立伙伴关系，鼓励相互了解高科技产业的教育和就业机会。为了实现这些目标，AWI将开展五项相互交织的主要活动：-毛伊岛社区学院的一项新的电光课程将开始作为认证，并建立未来的工程技术学位。毛伊岛科学和技术教育交流将在科学，工程，教育，商业和夏威夷土著社区的利益相关者之间建立伙伴关系，以进行劳动力需求评估，课程和实习设计以及文化融合。毛伊岛教学和课程协作将开发一个科学家和工程师教育工作者社区，他们设计和教授基于探究的活动。Akamai劳动力发展计划将在行业和研究环境中招聘、准备和安置实习生，以将他们提升为技术劳动力。Akamai in the Community计划将聘请校友担任AWI大使，培训他们成为公共演讲者，并让他们与K-12和其他当地社区受众互动。该奖项为AWI第一阶段提供支持，以建立教学和课程协作，实施Akamai劳动力发展实习计划，开发和试点一个电光课程，并取得进展，设计电光学位课程，并建立K-12路径。

The Akamai Workforce Initiative (AWI) is an interdisciplinary project that partners high-tech industry, cutting edge research, and inventive education to meet needs in astronomy, remote sensing, and other technology industries in Hawaii. The UCSC Center for Adaptive Optics, University of Hawaii-Maui Community College, Maui Economic Development Board, and the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy will collaborate through the AWI to provide training in electro-optics for a diverse student population through an innovative, culturally-relevant curriculum, designed to meet workforce needs. The AWI will advance these akamai - smart, clever, expert - students into the technology workforce on Maui, and more broadly in Hawaii.The goals of the AWI are:- to integrate aspects of Native Hawaiian culture, inquiry-based learning, and other innovative teaching practices into a new electro-optics engineering technology program at Maui Community College;- to establish a collaboration of scientists, engineers, and educators to support the tech pipeline and design and teach inquiry-based activities;- to increase participation of women, Native Hawaiians, and other underrepresented groups in engineering technology education and employment in Hawaii; and- to build partnerships and encourage mutual awareness of educational and employment opportunities in high-tech industry among the local communities of Maui County. To achieve these goals, the AWI will undertake five richly interwoven major activities:- A new electro-optics program at Maui Community College will begin as a certification and build toward a future engineering technology degree.- The Maui Science and Technology Education Exchange will build partnerships among stakeholders from the science, engineering, education, business, and Native Hawaiian communities for workforceneeds assessment, curriculum and internship design, and cultural integration.- The Maui Teaching and Curriculum Collaborative will develop a community of scientist- and engineer-educators who design and teach inquiry-based activities.- The Akamai Workforce Development program will recruit, prepare, and place interns in industry and research settings to advance them into the technical workforce.- The Akamai in the Community program will employ alumni as ambassadors for the AWI, training them as public speakers and engaging them with K-12 and other local community audiences.This award provides support for Phase I of the AWI in order to establish the Teaching and Curriculum Collaborative, to implement the Akamai Workforce Development internship program, to develop and pilot one electro-optics course and to make progress on designing the electro-optics degree program, and to establish a K-12 pathway.