Is your company on the forefront of automation with robots? Or do you manufacture robots? The Rhode Island Robot Block Party, a free community event, is accepting applications to exhibit at the Sunday, April 30, 2017 expo at the Pizzitola Center at Brown University....
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Guest Speaker’s Wanted – URI Office of Veteran’s Affairs
Our friends at the URI Business Engagement Center made us aware of an opportunity for Rhode Island manufacturers. The University of Rhode Island Office of Veteran’s Affairs is seeking guest speakers from the New England manufacturing community to help their student...
Polaris MEP and RIMA Announce First RI Manufacturing B2B Event
Event Aims to Connect Rhode Island Manufacturers to Increase Business PROVIDENCE, RI – Polaris MEP (Manufacturing Extension Partnership) has joined forces with Rhode Island Manufacturers Association (RIMA), to bring the state’s manufacturing community together at the...
Small Business Education Program with Staggering Results – Apply Now
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses at CCRI is a no-cost 12-week program that helps small businesses grow through a practical business education, access to capital, and a support network of advisers and peers. Over 7,000 small business owners have participated...
U.S. Sen Reed and Gov Raimondo Visit to Providence’s Goodwin-Bradley
The event focused on Goodwin-Bradley’s support from the Manufacturing Innovation Challenge – part of a $2.9 Million Federal Grant supporting manufacturing innovation in RI November 14, 2016 – PROVIDENCE, RI – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed and RI Governor Gina...
Manufacturing: It’s Unbelievably Exciting and Nothing Like the Past
By Carroll Thomas, Director of the NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership The revolution will not be televised—but it will be digitized! Taken from a famous poem and song by Gil Scott-Heron first recorded in 1970, this was a popular slogan in the African-American...
SENEDIA IT/Cybersecurity Internship Program
Exciting Opportunity from our friends at SENEDIA: SENEDIA is continuing to offer an exciting opportunity for Rhode Island college and university students and companies alike: an IT /Cybersecurity Internship Program to provide experiential learning opportunities for...
The Real Impact of Manufacturing Day
That time of year when area manufacturers open their doors to the young and old alike to expose them the great things that the industry is doing in our state is coming up soon. It’s Manufacturing Day, which officially occurs on the first Friday in October (Oct 7,...
32 RI Manufacturers Awarded through Manufacturing Innovation Challenge
Upwards of $700,000 Awarded in Expertise and Hands-On Talent August 4, 2016 – PROVIDENCE, RI – Polaris MEP (Manufacturing Extension Partnership), a division of the University of Rhode Island Research Foundation, announces today the recipients of the Manufacturing...
Help make the 2016 RI Mini Maker Faire a reality!
We wanted to pass along a message from our friends putting on the 2016 RI Mini Maker Faire – please read: AS220 needs your help to ensure the RI Mini Maker Faire – a family-friendly festival of invention and creativity staged by AS220 – can return to downtown...