New York State Network for Youth Success

Cancelled - Chip Kids: Exploring the World of Microchips
2025-06-11 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Description:
Chip Kids is a series of short videos that explore STEM concepts related to microchips. Microchips are found in electronic devices all around us, from computers to rocket ships, but what do they actually look like, how are they made, and what makes them work. Explore these concepts for middle school students through a series of short videos and animations accompanied with hands-on learning activities.
Objectives:
Sample some of the Chip Kids videos and see the how to do some of the simple hands-on activities with the middle school students you work with so that they have a better understanding of microchips that run their everyday devices.
Presenter:
Marion French is the Vice President, Education & Interactive Services at WXXI Public Media (PBS/NPR station in Rochester, NY) Marion has worked with teachers, and students from PreK-12 and higher education to learn how to use media to enhance their learning and curiosity. Marion has worked at WXXI, at RIT in Distance Learning, Web Development and Educational Media, in a Teacher Center, a Internet Education & Research Center and Teaching Middle School Students.

Social: @wxxieducation

Cancelled - Buffalo Advancing Career Placement: Northland Workforce Training Center
2025-06-13 12:00 - 13:00
Northland Workforce Training Center was strategically built in 2018 in Buffalo NY to serve as a pipeline to great careers in advanced manufacturing. We currently have 3,000 open jobs to fill. With a 62% graduation rate (almost 3x the National Average for Community Colleges with the same programs) and an 83% Job Placement rate. This will be an overview of all of the careers that we offer as well as the benefits of being a student in our programs.
Outcomes:

Making sure people can make an informed decision when deciding if NWTC is the place for you.
Overview of programs and services that NWTC currently offers.

Presenter:
Vanessa Hall graduated High School in 2005. She is a member of the inaugural graduating class of SUNY Erie’s 2019 Mechatronics program at Northland Workforce Training Center (NWTC). Building a foundation at NWTC has led to multiple unique opportunities which allowed her to work for Harmac Medical Products Inc. as a Mechanical Set-Up Technician, making a great salary and interning at the NFTA as a Mechanic. In September 2021, she returned to NWTC as an inaugural member of a brand-new program, SUNY Erie’s Mechanical Engineering AAS degree graduating in 2023. In addition to returning as a student, she was offered a position as a Mechatronics instructor for the Northland Summer Youth Academy and have been for the past 3 years. Vanessa devised an extremely exciting curriculum for the students, and it has been a tremendous success. Her skillset and impressive performance led her to becoming an Executive Associate at the Buffalo Niagara Manufacturing Alliance (BNMA) working directly under the President, Peter Ahrens. Along with working for the BNMA, she was hired as an Instructor/Outreach Specialist for NWTC. Aside from all of that… Vanessa am a Mom FIRST, Mechanic after that. Her favorite saying to her peers and students is “Be Great on Purpose!”
Social: Facebook @ NorthlandWTC
