Center of Excellence for Domestic Maritime Workforce Training and Education (CoE)

CCRI Received a Center of Excellence for Domestic Maritime Workforce Training and Education Designation.

CCRI has been recognized as a Center of Excellence for Domestic Maritime Workforce Training and Education (CoE) by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD). The CoE designation recognizes CCRI for its workforce-based training programming to prepare students for careers in the maritime industry.

CCRI engages maritime industry organizations, including the Rhode Island Marine Trades Association (RIMTA), Oliver Hazard Perry (OHPRI) and the United States Maritime Resource Center (USMRC) to develop programming, hire talent from the maritime programs, connect CCRI with their small-business networks, and provide guidance on future maritime training. In collaboration with General Dynamics Electric Boat, CCRI built maritime pipefitting, sheet metal and electrical courses that prepare students to work at Electric Boat’s Quonset, RI and Groton, CT shipyards. These courses, delivered by CCRI in partnership with the Westerly Education Center, provide participants with the skills and knowledge required for employment at Electric Boat in the production of vessels for the United States Navy.

The designation allows CCRI to work with MARAD to enter into cooperative agreements to help advance recruitment of students and faculty, enhance facilities, award student credit for military service, and potentially receive assistance in the form of surplus equipment or temporary use of MARAD vessels.

CCRI already offers many maritime trade training programs, including: Maritime Pipefitting, Maritime Sheet Metal, Maritime Electrical, Maritime Rigging,  youth boatbuilding, maritime OSHA 10 and 30. Recognizing the anticipated growth in the offshore wind sector, CCRI launched the maritime-related Global Wind Organization (GWO) Basic Safety Training (BST), with the first cohorts starting spring 2024.

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LAB SESSIONS

Engineering

It’s Water Under the Bridge

 Learn how to problem solve like an engineer.
Mathematics

Math Magic Cracks the Code

 Join the mathematical quest to reveal the magical code that will open the box of sur-prizes.
Business

The Design Sprint

 Learn how designers “Build to Learn” when creating new product ideas.  This lab includes hands-on, interactive exercises that are used to find solutions to design challenges. Highly interactive!
Chemistry / Chemical Technology

Forensic Files: A Penchant for Poison

 When someone dies suddenly, homicide detectives become suspicious. In the Crime Lab, you will be the forensic chemist who analyzes samples for possible poisoning using chemical instrumentation.
Biotechnology

Mystery of the Crooked Cell

 Use DNA fingerprinting to unravel a mystery.
Advanced Manufacturing

Automation and Beyond

 Making keychain tabs for the students on the CNC milling machines.
Astronomy

Space Physics... It Is Rocket Science!

 Learn some space and planetary physics using a spectroscope, telescopes, and bottle rockets to learn how NASA scientist study other planets in our solar system and beyond!
Computer/Cyber

Capture the Flag - Cybersecurity Heroes Wear Digital Capes

 Cybersecurity is all around us. Learn how items or messages can be hidden in different pictures or websites.
Engineering

Using Wind to Charge Your Phone

 Wind Energy Fundamentals & Activities: Generator power measurement and testing in the Wind Tunnel.
Occupational Therapy

Guess the Occupational Therapy Gadget

 Learn how to measure grip strength and explore adaptive equipment/tools used to help people perform daily tasks as independently as possible.
Fire Science

EMS Rodeo

 Students will be introduced to some of the real-life interventions in pre-hospital EMS by current students and EMS faculty. 
Nursing

The STEM of Care: Where Science Meets Compassion

 Jump into action and use your STEM skills to see how nurses make a difference every day. Use science to understand a patient’s condition, technology to gather info, and math to calculate dosages. Get ready to apply STEM to real-world nursing scenarios.
Biology

A Muddy Mystery: A Whodunit Case to Discover the Cause of a Declining Salt Marsh

 Students will learn about the ecological and economic importance of salt marsh ecosystems and work together to solve a mystery of what caused a salt marsh to decline. Was it human activity, climate change, biodiversity loss, or invasive species?

The STEM Day Schedule

Time Activity
8:00 am—8:30 am Registration - 2nd Floor Entrance
8:30 am—9:15 am Welcome + Moving to Lab Session I
9:15 am—10:10 am Lab Session I
10:10 am—10:20 am Transition to Lab Session II
10:20 am—11:15 am Lab Session II
11:15 am—11:25 am Transition Time to Lab Session III
11:25 am—12:20 pm Lab Session III
12:20 pm—1:00 pm Lunch & Dismissal

Important Information

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