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STEM provides our area with a clear and direct path to better wages, more jobs   Written by Kevin Barnhill Special to news-press.com Aug. 6, 2011 How would you like to earn 40 percent more in wages or

At the Intersection of IT and Healthcare The Southwest Florida Regional Technology Partnership (www.swfrtp.org) invites area technology professionals as well as area healthcare professionals to learn how technology is improving the delivery of healthcare and electronic health records.  Join us on Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 5:30 P.M. at the Holiday Inn Fort Myers Airport at Town Center, 9931 Interstate Commerce Drive Fort Myers, FL 33913.   The presenter for the evening will be Tim Staley, the Chief Information Officer for...

Technology Partnership Honors Arthrex, WCI, Gabrielsen   The Southwest Florida Regional Technology Partnership presented top honors to Arthrex, Inc. and WCI at its third annual awards ceremony, Thursday, May 26 in Fort Myers. Arthrex, an orthopedic medical device manufacturer in Naples, was selected for the Innovention Award for its web-based Surgical Outcome System (SOS), a web-based registry of patient outcomes that provides information on the effectiveness of surgical techniques, products and treatment....

Technology Partnership Names Finalists for May 26 Awards; Former Disney Exec to Speak on Leadership & Innovation   The Regional Technology Partnership announces finalists for awards to be presented at its third annual ceremony, Thursday, May 26 in Fort Myers. The Innovention Award is for a Southwest Florida company that has invented, improved or demonstrated an innovative and creative technology solution. Finalists are Arthrex, Inc., MediaBrains, Inc. and Surround Technologies, LLC. ...

>>Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation welcomed Timothy J. Cartwright to its 2010-2011 foundation board of directors at its December 2010 meeting. He will serve the board until 2014. Cartwright is a partner with Fifth Avenue Advisors, a firm he co-founded in 2006. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, and a master’s in Management in Finance and Accounting from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

  Free training for individuals is available from the Economic Development Council of Collier County (EDC) thanks to a grant from Workforce Florida, Inc. Programs like FastTrac®, Economic Gardening, Mobile Outreach Skills Training (MOST) and Supply Point Proposal and Engineering Assistance Training (PEAT) will be available to 100 pre-qualified individuals.  When the EDC released the results of its recent Grow Collier survey,...