Month: January 2022
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The Institute for Women’s Leadership & AT&T Foundation Fund Workforce Development Training Collaborating on a new certificate program
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Green Bay, Wis.—UW-Green Bay’s Institute for Women’s Leadership received a $10,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation tocreate and fund a Workforce Development Certificate. The grant will enable one hundred candidates to earn a certificate at no cost. The Workforce Development Certificate offers a pathway for displaced, underemployed or underserved employees to upskill to meet changing…
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National tour on bias education comes to Wisconsin | Wisconsin Public Radio
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A national educational tour from the Smithsonian Institution is making two stops early this year in Wisconsin, hoping to work with community partners to teach people about better understanding bias, recognizing it in themselves, and how to counter it. Source: National tour on bias education comes to Wisconsin | Wisconsin Public Radio
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Microsoft TechSpark leads regions transformation of tech education, training
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SUAMICO – Welcome to Weirdshapeville, a triangle-shaped community that features its own library, “Little Ben” clock tower and Dash, a robotic tour guide who calls out the sights as it rolls past them.Bethany Dunning and Graham Gerondale, third-graders at Forest Glen Elementary School in the Howard-Suamico School District, planned out Weirdshapeville on paper, drew their map, colored it…
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UW-Green Bay: Announces Global Game Jam is back, Jan. 21-23 at Urban Hub | WisPolitics.com
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Green Bay, Wis.—After a two-year hiatus, Green Bay will once again host a site for the Global Game Jam (GGJ) over the weekend. Since 2008, this annual, international event challenges new and experienced developers to create original games in 48 hours. Digital and non-digital games will be designed to follow a loose theme that will…
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Green Bay Film Society Presents Free Film Series at Tarlton Theatre
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Green Bay, Wis. – The Weidner Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to partner with the Green Bay Film Society to introduce Green Bay Film Society Presents, a free film series showing classic cinema at downtown Green Bay’s historic Tarlton Theatre. Once a month, Green Bay Film Society Presents will feature one-time screenings of definitive…
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UW-Green Bay alumni and former faculty member publish work
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UW-Green Bay alumni, Logan Johnsen (’21), Rosalyn Stoa (’20) and Prof. Jana Fogaça (Psychology) published their article “To be or not to be paid? The motivational effects of scholarship removal on Division I NCAA swimmers” in International Journal of Sport Psychology. In this study, the researchers found removing scholarships to decrease intrinsic motivation. Additionally, respondents tended…