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Keeping young minds “cyber active” this summer

A summer camp featuring the Mars Rover and Metallica is a match made in heaven. Aiken Technical College is holding Cyber Power Camp: Mars Rover Mission Edition from June 9 through 13. It will teach coding, robotics, and tech innovations. “What we were focusing on really was cybersecurity careers and those things we’re already doing. The idea really was to start building a better and stronger pipeline anywhere we can for cyber careers, those things within computer technology,” Chad Crumbaker, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Workforce Innovation, explained for

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Chamber workshops to teach Artificial Intelligence

The Aiken Chamber of Commerce is offering a series of workshops to demystify artificial intelligence (AI). Jim Tunison, President and CEO of the Chamber, said he wanted to arrange workshops focused on AI to help members realize how the technology can be valuable. “I just wanted to be able to equip our members with the tools necessary to stay competitive,” he said. “It’s one of those things that, even I was a little leery at first when you started hearing about AI, but then you got playing around with it,

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Summer School: Focusing on Processes

I am teaching one course this Summer, an MBA-level course on Operations and Supply Chain Management. Operations and Supply Chain Management focuses on how companies create and deliver products and services to meet customer demand. At the heart of the operations of a firm are the processes required to produce its goods and deliver its services. Therefore, for more than half of the course, we focus on how to design, manage, analyze, and improve a firm’s processes. Basically, a process is a series of steps or actions taken to achieve

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Club Car Leads Fight Against Chinese Imports in D.C.

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) will soon make a final determination in the antidumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD) case concerning Chinese low-speed vehicle imports. Club Car leaders and other representatives of the coalition representing the United States’ leading manufacturers of golf and personal transportation vehicles (PTVs) recently traveled to Capitol Hill to meet with Congressional leaders and seek support. The above picture on Capitol Hill features Congressman Rick Allen (GA-12), who met with leaders from Club Car and EZ-GO in Washington, D.C., to address the impact of illegally dumped

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Simon Says: New Housing BOOM in the CSRA!

The Augusta Leading Economic Index (LEI) increased 1.9 percent in March from April. This is the highest monthly increase since August 2020, when we were coming out of the covid lockdown. The LEI is 1.4 percent higher than a year ago. The big driver of this month’s data was residential building permits, which were 631 in March, the highest on record going back to 2000. 298 permits were for 1-unit structures, and 329 were for 5 units or more. Although there has been news of a cooling of the national

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Major manufacturing company in CSRA gives 400 students a career opportunity

Textron Specialized Vehicles Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, and the Richmond County School System just reached a big milestone in helping at-risk students find a path into the local workforce. Recently, the 400th graduate completed the Reaching Potential Through Manufacturing (RPM) program, since it started in 2017. With 10 graduates earning their high-school diplomas this month, the RPM program has now graduated 400 students since celebrating its first graduates in 2017. Another 11 RPM students are on track to graduate this summer. “We are proud to celebrate this

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Final numbers for Masters Week impact at the airport

The initial numbers looked good, and the final numbers look even better for how Augusta Regional Airport fared during Master 2025. Ken Hinkle, Director of Aircraft Services, provided members of the Aviation Commission with the impact of aircraft traffic on jet fuel sales and broke down the fees versus expenses and operational costs. Hinkle said one difference this year was the decision to begin parking aircraft on the other side of the runways. That increased the number of aircraft they could accommodate. The report breaks down operations, which are every

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Two Questions for the Dean: Hull’s Professors

If you or your high school-aged child is interested in undergraduate or Masters level education at the Hull College of Business, you might wonder who the professors are. Click below to find out what fields they specialize in. ABD: You have a very diverse faculty that is part of the whole college of business, and do they have, or what types of different areas of expertise do they bring to the community? HULL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS: Our faculty are some of the leading experts in their respective fields, from management,

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Federal money to expand, renovate, and equip Augusta airport

Members of the Aviation Commission learned how two federal grants, first approved by the Augusta-Richmond County Commission, will be used at Augusta Regional Airport. In all, the grants from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) total just over $5 million. The grant for the Airport Terminal Program (ATP) is $4 million, the remainder is an Airport Infrastructure Grant (AIG). Herbert Judon, Jr., airport Executive Director, told ABD the funds for the ATP became available through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2021. “It was a competitive grant. We were awarded that

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How Much is That Doggie in the Window?

After a long day at work, you come home. Who else is going to wag their tail upon your arrival? Not your wife or husband, but when your dog hears the door of your car close, he or she is anxiously awaiting you with a tail going nonstop and kisses to boot. Now, there is another way to reward that loyalty. The Woofing Bakery is a mobile pet bakery based in Aiken, offering cookies, cakes, and doggie donuts. They are all made with fresh, pet-friendly ingredients. Owner, Bela Steele, lost

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