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George Fox College of Engineering USDA Agri-Tech Grant
George Fox University students will have the opportunity to provide technical assistance to small farmers and rural businesses because of a $100,000 USDA grant awarded to the university’s engineering department. The purpose of the Renewable Energy Development...
Code Cache Room Artwork
Once again, we challenged Newberg High School Graphics Design students and their teacher Tyson Lunden to develop creative ideas for art and signage for the accelerator, specifically the Code Cache room. Unlike the first year, the 2017-18 students had to accommodate...
Yamhill County Grant for ChehalemVIA
On behalf of the Chehalem Valley Innovation Accelerator, I accepted the 2017 Yamhill County Small Grant awarded to ChehalemVIA for operational funding. The check was presented by Yamhill County Commissioners Rick Olson, Mary Starrett and Stan Primozich. We will use...
Meeting Future Entrepreneurs at the 2017 GFU Expo
This is the second time ChehalemVIA has participated in the George Fox University Engineering Expo - where international, national and local companies recruit engineers from GFU. Approximately 40 employers and 100 engineering students engaged in a packed Klages...
GFU College of Engineering Joins Elite Company in KEEN
NEWBERG, Ore. – Years of behind-the-scenes work by Dean Bob Harder and his colleagues in George Fox University’s engineering major have paid dividends, as the program has been accepted into the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network, a group of 30 institutions...
FIDGETECH: Where Technology and Autism Meet | Intel® Software
Intel has a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. We believe that in order to shape the future of technology, we must be representative of that future. This is what started Intel’s exploration into sponsoring FIDGETECH’s initial game jam and our ongoing...
Chehalem Valley Innovation Accelerator Taking Shape
Venture has three clients and a finished space to help encourage local tech start-ups Although Newberg's participation in the America's Best Cities contest is in the rearview mirror, an idea hatched during that period has come to life over the past year. Establishing...
And… ChehalemVIA Got Sign!
The exterior sign over the Elliott Rd entrance is up! Special thanks to Ashley Lippard Designs, Icon Communications and Sign-on for getting this done! Ashley did the artwork (over and over… wash, rinse repeat), Icon took the measurements, did the mock-ups and helped...
“BLUE COLLAR” BECOMES “NEW COLLAR” JOBS
One of our advisors from Rural Development Initiatives turned us on to this great article from The Hill. It's important, timely, and sets up a new paradigm for thinking about vocational or career and technical education. "It wasn’t so long ago that people with a...