Program Components:

Outreach/recruitment/marketing

Secondary-postsecondary partnership

Jan Swinton,

Associate Dean, Instruction & Workforce Development

1500 N Verdugo Rd

Glendale, CA 91208

Electronics Technology courses, including Robotics – as well as pursue certificates and

degrees. Glendale’s Workforce Development program is an active coalition member in a

partnership consisting of three local high schools and the College. One of the coalition’s

many joint projects has been the development and support of competitive teams

Glendale College hired a female instructor to teach Electronics Technology at a local high

school to support the coalition’s FIRST team, and also to act indirectly as a role model for

young women interested in learning electronics. The instructor was also hired for the

College’s Division of Technology/Electronics and Computer Technology. She

subsequently formed a Robotics Club that meets on campus every week, and is

coordinating the first “Race a R.A.T.” (Rapid Automated Technology) competition

involving both technical and academic faculty and students. The R.A.T. competition is a

team effort to navigate an electronic vehicle through a complex course/maze in the

shortest amount of time possible.