MEET OUR 1000th APPRENTICE! She‚Äôs Megan Phillips, of Revio FOR THIS MILESTONE, we‚Äôre going to dispense with the usual Spotlight format and simply let Megan (and her boss, CEO Brian Bauer) talk about who she is and the path that took her from her home town of White Hall, AR, to her present position as […]
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OUR OWN MARCH MADNESS AROUND ACDS, WE’RE battening down the hatches, because the rest of 2024 looks like it’s going to be really exciting in our world of Registered Apprenticeships. As you may know by now, there are several variables that impact the number of actual apprentices employed throughout Arkansas. Probably the most impactful of
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LET THE SPARKS FLY   Innovation needs a culture that fosters fireworks Charles D. Morgan, CEO, First Orion ONE OF THE paradoxes of modern business is that success tends to stifle the innovation that made a company successful in the first place. If you think about it, that’s not all that hard to understand: Innovation
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ANOTHER PIECE TO THE CAREER DEVELOPMENT PUZZLE The Jr.2Sr. program is a solid step into the future Lonnie Emard, ACDS Apprenticeship Director ON FEBRUARY 26, ACDS will begin an unusual cohort of apprentices. These apprentices aren’t new to the working world, and in fact they aren’t new to the companies they’re apprenticing with. Instead, they’re technical
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A Brief History of Big Data Just because cavemen didn’t have computers doesn’t mean the data wasn’t there Bernard Marr THE HISTORY OF ‚ÄúBig Data‚ÄĚ as a term may be short, but many of the foundations it is built on were laid long ago. Many decades before computers as we know them today were commonplace,
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“BE PRO, BE PROUD” ¬† WHERE DID JANUARY and February go? The jonquils are popping up, meaning Spring is right around the corner here in Arkansas. And of the many, many things that we associate with Spring in our state, the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce‚Äôs High School Draft Days program‚ÄĒwith the tagline ‚ÄúBe Pro,
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A RADICAL IDEA ¬† How Arkansas’ colleges and universities worked together to create a statewide data science ecosystem Karl Schubert, Ph.D, FIET,Professor of Practice and Associate Director of the Data Science Program for the College of Engineering, the Sam M. Walton College of Business, and the J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences, University
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7 GOALS TO JUMP-START YOUR CAREER IN 2024 Success is a journey, and the new year is a great time to plan the next step Clint Hankinson,Director of Marketing,ACDS WOW. THE HOLIDAYS are in the rear-view mirror and the new year is already here. And maybe you’ve put together some goals for personal growth or
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BEYOND THE NUMBERS ¬† AS WE ENTER 2024, ACDS is on target to hit the 1,000-milestone in the number of apprenticeships we‚Äôve processed. Formed in late 2018 as a non-profit, we began training our first IT apprenticeship cohort in December 2019. Four years later‚ÄĒlast month‚ÄĒwe had notched 861 apprentices. If we remain on the schedule
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