Siemens PLM Software's GO PLM Team work with non-for-profit organizations to develop advanced manufacturing career opportunities for at-risk youth and displaced workers through its Global Youth Development Programs.

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Siemens PLM Software Recognized as a Top Supporter of Historically Black Engineering Schools

Focus: HOPE

Focus HOPE is a civil and human rights organization founded in 1968 by Dr. William Cunningham (1932-1997) and Eleanor Jasatis. It's goal and mission is to unite people in a common effort to empower and provide opportunities for success.

Recognizing the dignity and beauty of every person, we pledge intelligent and practical action to over come racism, poverty and injustice. And to build a metropolitan community where all people may live in freedom, harmony, trust and affection. Black and white, yellow, brown and red, from Detroit and its suburbs to every economic status, national origin and religious persuasion, we join in this covenant.

The programs offered by Focus: HOPE include:

• The Center for Children is a 26,000 sq. ft. area within the Focus: HOPE complex. It houses a full service kitchen, a gymnasium, and separate outdoor play areas for toddlers and preschoolers.
• Centers of Opportunity. Because of the widening gap between the technically adept and the technically illiterate, Focus: HOPE addresses this challenge through comprehensive training and education programs that focus on advanced technical capabilities, but also recognize the importance of communication skills, timeliness, quality and reliability, all learned in an environment where success is not just an attitude, it is the only option.

FIRST (For Inspiration in Science and Technology)

Siemens PLM Software is proud to sponsor three teams in the FIRST (For Inspiration in Science and Technology) Robotics Competition. This event joins engineers from sponsor companies with local schools to design and build a robot to compete in a high-adrenalin contest fielding 2000 teams worldwide. The competition incorporates the excitement of a sporting event to introduce high school students to engineering.

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Manufacturing Training Alliance

Sponsored in part by the former Siemens PLM Software in June 1998, the MTA provides top quality skills and training for at risk youth and displaced workers in the areas of manufacturing and machining. The commitment of the partnership is to be a career recourse for disadvantaged young adults and laid off or underemployed workers.

• For every 3 jobs open due to death, retirement, or expansion, there’s only 1 person trained for that position – MTA seeks to change that.
• Cornerstone has the most successful job placement rate in the Production and Machinist fields, with 100% in the last 3 graduating classes.

Programs offered at the MTA include:

• Education curriculum
• Training
• Mentoring
• Job placement
• CO-OP programs (e.g.: Boeing DMAPS-Design, Manufacturing and Productivity Simulation)
• Manufacturing prep classes
• Helps students with math and Reading skills

WYSE (Worldwide Youth in Science Engineering)

A program run by the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, it strives to spark the interest in today's high school students about science and engineering. Through academic competitions and summer programs, WYSE exposes students to both academic and career.

Programs offered by WYSE include:

• Exploring Your Options
• The Academic Challenge

DAPCEP (Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program)

Founded in 1976 with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, by Detroit area engineers, the organizations mission is to to increase the number of historically under-represented minority students (African American, Hispanic, Native American) who are motivated and prepared academically to pursue careers in engineering, science, and mathematics related fields.

Programs include the organizations' Saturday & Summer Program, Job Preparation Institute and College Prep Program.

Achievements of the programs include the Design Detroit's Future campaign where students participate in a 4 week summer program that highlights topics including neighborhood land use, Detroit urban design & architecture, community planning and transportation planning.

AMIE (Advancing Minorities' Interest in Engineering)

AMIE is a non-profit organization created to provide a proactive approach to fostering diversity as an essential business strategy. This resulted in the 1992 Abbott Laboratories coalition of representatives and engineers from Fortune 500 companies and nine Historically Black Colleges and Universities who see that diversity in the workforce is a competitive advantage. The organization's mission is to expand corporate and academic alliances and implement and support programs to attract, educate, graduate and place under-represented minority students in engineering careers.

The vision is to be the model of excellence that achieves diversity as an essential business strategy for industry and government agencies by developing partnerships with minority educational institutions.

The vision is to be the model of excellence that achieves diversity as an essential business strategy for industry and government agencies by developing partnerships with minority educational institutions.

• Alabama A & M University
• Florida A & M University
• Hampton University
• Howard University
• Jackson State University
• Morgan State University
• Norfolk State University
• North Carolina A & T State University
• Prairie View A & M University
• Southern University
• Tennessee State University
• Tuskegee University
• Virginia State University

PhAME (Philadelphia Area Accelerated Manufacturing Education, Inc.)

PhAME is a locally based, manufacturer-led initiative designed to support regional economic development and workforce development in the Greater Philadelphia region. Through its focus on stemming the shortage of qualified manufacturing workers in the Delaware Valley area, PhAME provides this support by delivering specialized skills training in the field of computer-based precision machining and manufacturing technology to young people and individuals in career transition.

PhAME offers interested men and women the chance to gain the requisite manufacturing knowledge and capabilities -- and their economic benefits -- through an intensive, challenging, multi-level group of workplace education and direct skills training programs. PhAME targets individuals with either a high school diploma or equivalent who possess Basic English and mathematics skills and wish to pursue career opportunities in manufacturing. Admissions testing and a personal interview determine the appropriate level for an applicant. All Candidates are required to pass a drug-screening test. PhAME Candidates usually range from 18 to 40 years of age. PhAME's Candidate population is approximately 70% male and 92% minority. Successful Candidates are those who possess the motivation, initiative, and desire to pursue an education in conjunction with skill training for a viable, productive long-term career path in manufacturing.

PhAME is playing a significant role in meeting this need by graduating Candidates who possess world-class manufacturing skills, excellent interpersonal skills and a strong work ethic. PhAME strives to accomplish this mission by offering relevant state-of-the-art manufacturing training and education through practical classroom and shop floor education at PhAME facilities.

Stone Soup for the World

The Stone Soup Leadership Institute provides technical assistance, training and develops innovative, collaborative strategies with youth and community organizations to help build a more sustainable world. The Stone Soup for the World website serves as a global education resource for grassroot leaders in schools, churches and organizations in 120 communities around the world. It's Leadership Institute provides technical assistance and training and develops innovative, collaborative strategies with youth and community organizations to help build a more sustainable world.

The Stone Soup Leadership Institute is the learning-in-action arm of the Stone Soup Foundation, a 501(c) 3 international, non-profit education organization founded in 1997. The Institute provides technical assistance and training to organizations to use the Stone Soup for the World educational curriculum to develop public/private partnerships that build healthier communities and a healthier world. The dramatic and heartening stories in Stone Soup for the World immediately immerse readers in other cultures and countries, and engage them in the struggles of real heroes who fight battles against violence, disease and hunger within their individual lives, their communities and nations.

Volunteer Centers Using the Stone Soup for the World Educational Curriculum include:

• Metro Volunteers! - Denver, CO
• Volunteer Centers in St. Louis, MO
• Volunteer Center of Greater Orange County - Santa Ana, CA
• Montgomery County Volunteer & Community Service Center - Rockville, MD.

The Stone Soup Education Campaign was developed in partnership with major corporations like NationsBank and national organizations like Christmas in April. To demonstrate the Stone Soup message -- we can do more together than anyone could alone -- people collaborated to create meaningful service projects that are having a lasting impact on their communities. Partnerships were developed with other organizations like Volunteer Centers across the country (including several state and local coordinators for the Presidents' Summit for America's Future) to connect people who want to build a better world - and to maximize the campaign's impact.

The Stone Soup for the World educational curriculum is a great tool for Volunteer Centers who want to inspire, train, motivate and retain their volunteers. It's especially helpful for Volunteer Centers who want to engage teens and contribute to the exciting field of service learning.