Spencer-Owen Community Schools has been awarded an ROI Ready Schools implementation grant totaling $500,000.
Spencer-Owen Community Schools awarded $500,000 ROI Ready Schools implementation grant
Second round of Ready Communities implementation grants now open
Eligible organizations encouraged to attend August 6 workshop to learn guidelines, timeline, and process.
2019 Becky Skillman Regional Leadership Award: NSWC Crane
The innovation ecosystem flourishing around Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane. It’s the result of NSWC’s intentional investment, outreach, and development of strategic partnerships with industry, academia, nonprofits, and other federal labs.
2019 Pathway Innovation Award: White River Valley Precision Machining
In a region with many opportunities in advanced manufacturing, White River Valley's machining program lights a pathway to future prosperity.
Educator Boot Camp connects classrooms to careers
An externship experience that exposes teachers, counselors and school leaders to the wide variety of STEM-focused career opportunities in the Indiana Uplands.
2019 Talent Innovation Award: Lion Manufacturing
A student-run enterprise with transformative learning experiences
2019 Quality of Place Innovation Award: City of Huntingburg, Market Street Park
A new focal point for the potential of downtown Huntingburg.
2019 STEM Innovation Award: Paoli Junior-Senior High School Agriculture Department
Developing leaders through next-generation ag science & tech.
2019 Regional Collaboration Award: Shoals, Mitchell and Orleans Schools
In regionalism, the whole is more than the sum of its parts.
ROI Annual Report to the Region: Indiana’s Next Level Jobs Initiative
ROI was honored to welcome Danny Lopez, Chair of the Governor’s Workforce Cabinet, to deliver the keynote address at the Annual Report to the Region. Mr. Lopez’s presentation, titled “Pathways, Pipeline, & Partnership” showcased Governor Holcomb’s Next Level Jobs Initiative.
ROI Annual Report to the Region: What’s Next for Education & Workforce Programs
ROI’s experiential learning and career awareness programs help students understand the rich regional career opportunities and make informed choices about their pathways.
ROI Annual Report to the Region: State of Our Key Sectors
Three special guests from significant partner organizations gave reports on Indiana Uplands’ key industry sectors of life sciences, national security and defense, and advanced manufacturing.
ROI Annual Report to the Region: State of the Indiana Uplands
On April 18, hundreds of Hoosiers from all over Indiana Uplands and beyond gathered in French Lick for ROI’s third Annual Report to the Region.
Student-Run Businesses in the Indiana Uplands
Outside the classroom, high school students in Brown County & Loogootee, Indiana, are gaining real-world work experiences as employees, leaders, and entrepreneurs in student-run businesses.
ROI opens application for first round of Ready Communities implementation grants
Ready Communities grants to enhance quality of place and workforce attraction strategies in the Indiana Uplands Regional Opportunity Initiatives (ROI) has opened up applications for its first round of Ready Communities Implementation Grants for projects in counties that have completed a Quality of Place and Workforce Attraction Plan. Three rounds of funding will be available … Continue reading ROI opens application for first round of Ready Communities implementation grants