{"id":3139,"date":"2023-03-02T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2023-03-02T14:07:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T20:07:34","slug":"u-s-secretary-of-commerce-tours-acc-hosts-roundtable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/blog\/2023\/03\/02\/u-s-secretary-of-commerce-tours-acc-hosts-roundtable\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Secretary of Commerce Tours ACC, Hosts Roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Austin Community College District (ACC) hosted Secretary Gina Raimondo of the U.S. Department of Commerce for a special tour and roundtable discussion at ACC Highland Campus on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raimondo toured the college\u2019s advanced manufacturing facilities, including the Manufacturing Academy and IMPACT Lab. Several students provided hands-on demonstrations of the work they do in class.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afterward, Raimondo sat down with ACC Chancellor Richard Rhodes, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson, the interim CEO of the Austin Chamber of Commerce, industry leaders in the manufacturing sector of Austin, and an ACC manufacturing student to discuss the fast-growing industry and how ACC and employers are working together to build a highly-skilled workforce.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several media outlets also attended and captured the event. View the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/us-secretary-of-commerce-visits-austin-to-highlight-growing-manufacturing-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CBS Austin segment here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below, you\u2019ll find a slideshow with photos of the tour and roundtable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a data-flickr-embed='true' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/accdistrict\/albums\/72177720306419434' title='U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo visits ACC by Austin Community College, on Flickr'><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52722347568_622a9ccace_b.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo visits ACC'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College District (ACC) hosted Secretary Gina Raimondo of the U.S. Department of Commerce for a special tour and roundtable discussion at ACC Highland Campus on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.&nbsp; Raimondo toured the college\u2019s advanced manufacturing facilities, including the Manufacturing Academy and IMPACT Lab. Several students provided hands-on demonstrations of the work they do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28,116,70,204],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happening-now","tag-event","tag-facilities","tag-manufacturing","tag-special-guest","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}