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NABWIC episodes

  • NABWIC Talks With Dr. Carolyn Edwards!!
    Dr. Edwards holds a PhD in Management and serves as Coach, Author and adjunct professor.  She has over 18 years of government, industry, entrepreneurship, education, consulting, training and coaching experience.  She is the author three writing journals to help others uncover, define goals and take action. As well as the author of two Reading is Fundamental approved children books “I Can Be Anything I Dream and Fun With Money” which help children learn about life and financial responsibility at an early age. She is also the founder of the early literacy program JustLikeUs which serves as a foundation for early literacy by getting children interested in books and reading by providing low income and the underserved with multicultural books with faces that look like their own . Dr. Edwards has received numerous awards and commendations to include the Consortium of Entrepreneurship Education’s Entrepreneur 101 Award, Marian Kauffman Entrepreneurship Award and Everest College’s Teacher of the Year in addition appeared on numerous radio shows to help others define and achieve their life goals.
    50 min
  • NABWIC Success Story: Cardozo H.S. / TransTech Academy
    Today We Will Be Speaking With Shirley McCall and Shelly Karriem, educators at TransTech Academy. 
    Ms. McCall is presently the Coordinator of the TransTech Academy at Cardozo High School.  The program is designed to impart the values of higher education, constructive employment and careers in the various models of transportation. 
    Ms. Karriem is currently the Director of the Academy of Construction and Design at Cardozo High School, a joint venture between D.C. Public Schools and the DC Students Construction Trades Foundation.  The Academy teaches high school students construction trades, including: carpentry, electrical, plumbing as well as a certified "green building" curriculum.
    TransTech Academy currently features three career pathways; aviation/aeronautics, pre-engineering and electro-mechanical technology training.  Plans are underway to add yet another pathway in Logistics and Supply Chain Mgmt in the Fall 2013.
    Over six hundred students have completed the program.  Eighty-five percent have gone on to college. Seventy percent have joined the military and eight percent are working in on of these respective fields.  TransTech Academy was established in 1991 as the first transportation studies academy in the Washington Metropolitan area.  The program is designed to bridge the gap between the classroom and the workplace.
    www.nabwic.org
    44 min
  • NABWIC Success Story: Cardozo H.S. / TransTech Academy
    Today We Will Be Speaking With Shirley McCall and Shelly Karriem, educators at TransTech Academy. 
    Ms. McCall is presently the Coordinator of the TransTech Academy at Cardozo High School.  The program is designed to impart the values of higher education, constructive employment and careers in the various models of transportation. 
    Ms. Karriem is currently the Director of the Academy of Construction and Design at Cardozo High School, a joint venture between D.C. Public Schools and the DC Students Construction Trades Foundation.  The Academy teaches high school students construction trades, including: carpentry, electrical, plumbing as well as a certified "green building" curriculum.
    TransTech Academy currently features three career pathways; aviation/aeronautics, pre-engineering and electro-mechanical technology training.  Plans are underway to add yet another pathway in Logistics and Supply Chain Mgmt in the Fall 2013.
    Over six hundred students have completed the program.  Eighty-five percent have gone on to college. Seventy percent have joined the military and eight percent are working in on of these respective fields.  TransTech Academy was established in 1991 as the first transportation studies academy in the Washington Metropolitan area.  The program is designed to bridge the gap between the classroom and the workplace.
    www.nabwic.org
    46 min
  • "NABWIC & LOCKHEED INDUSTRY DAY A BIG HIT AT TRANSTECH"
    Ann McNeill, President and Founder of The National Association of Black Women In Construction together with Sonya Stewart, Vice President for Enterprise Applications Solutions at Lockheed Martin organized the Third Annual Industry Day Event at TransTech Academy a scholastic program offered at Cardoza High School in Washington, DC!
    On Today's Show, Ann McNeill and other invited members-panelists from the Nat'l Assn of Black Women In Construction will discuss the impactfulness of TransTech Academy's 2012 Industry Day Event held earlier this month at Washington D.C's. historical Cardoza High School.  We will be discussing: Who Are We? How To Become Sponsor(s); Participant(s); Benefits of Partnership With NABWIC; Membership importance to students in engineering, construction, architectural, and other related industries; and so much more!!!  "We Are A Movement In The Community That Invites You To Join Us"
    Excerpts From The Washington Informer recent article:
     
    INDUSTRY DAY A BIG HIT AT TRANS TECH ACADEMY
    With unemployment among blacks having soared in recent years, students at Cardozo Senior High School's TransTech Academy in Northwest are opting for careers centered around science, technology, engineering and math [STEM] where jobs remain plentiful. During Cardozo's 3rd Annual Industry Day, which attracted 70 professionals from aviation and aeronautics, construction, engineering, and transportation, students listened attentively and asked questions while pondering career choices.
    49 min
  • "NABWIC & LOCKHEED INDUSTRY DAY A BIG HIT AT TRANSTECH"
    Ann McNeill, President and Founder of The National Association of Black Women In Construction together with Sonya Stewart, Vice President for Enterprise Applications Solutions at Lockheed Martin organized the Third Annual Industry Day Event at TransTech Academy a scholastic program offered at Cardoza High School in Washington, DC!
    On Today's Show, Ann McNeill and other invited members-panelists from the Nat'l Assn of Black Women In Construction will discuss the impactfulness of TransTech Academy's 2012 Industry Day Event held earlier this month at Washington D.C's. historical Cardoza High School.  We will be discussing: Who Are We? How To Become Sponsor(s); Participant(s); Benefits of Partnership With NABWIC; Membership importance to students in engineering, construction, architectural, and other related industries; and so much more!!!  "We Are A Movement In The Community That Invites You To Join Us"
    Exerpts From The Washington Informer recent article:
     
    INDUSTRY DAY A BIG HIT AT TRANS TECH ACADEMY
    With unemployment among blacks having soared in recent years, students at Cardozo Senior High School's TransTech Academy in Northwest are opting for careers centered around science, technology, engineering and math [STEM] where jobs remain plentiful. During Cardozo's 3rd Annual Industry Day, which attracted 70 professionals from aviation and aeronautics, construction, engineering, and transportation, students listened attentively and asked questions while pondering career choices.
    51 min

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The Vision of the National Association of Black Women in Construction (NABWIC) is to build lasting strategic partnerships with first-rate organizations and individuals that will provide ground-breaking and innovative solutions for black women in construction and their respective communities.