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Calendar of Events by Housing Complex 2009 Sports and Technology Camps Registration Special Events and Camps
The advent of convergent
technologies has brought rapid change resulting a major enhancements
in the way organizations conduct business including training and
development.
Summer programming and/or after-school programming that provides opportunities for underrepresented populations to be exposed to and participate in Career and Technical Education (CTE) programming can their horizons in terms of occupational and educational opportunities. Thus, increasing the number of individuals being offered a different way to look at education that can assist them in valuing education and become knowledge workers.
Taking up the challenge, Wayne State University's Volunteers, Administrators, and Coaches (VAC) program has collaborated with the Detroit Housing Commission to create the Detroit Housing Commission Collaborative (DHCC). DHCC’s focus develop a module-based year around after-school program that combines convergent journalism, multimedia ,and sports enhance the information-literacy, technology-literacy, self-esteem, and physical wellness of community residents (mainstream and special needs) in a manner that allows them to actively participate in the creation of a pipeline for new industries aimed at fueling Metro-Detroit’s transformation into a creative economy.
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has resulted in a digital knowledge-driven global environment
consumed by fierce competition for resources, markets, and knowledge
workers. Knowledge worker is an individual that primarily works
with and produces information as a product/service. As a result,
America has invested billions in off-shored outsourcing over the
past decade and is not a dire need of new models and/or avenues for
creating knowledge workers.