To this month's new and renewing members and sponsors, Thank you!

Our members receive resources, promotion and connections to support success in the industry. The GTA also supports community initiatives for STEM education, Robotics, and Gorge Women in STEM. The full list of benefits for all levels of engagement is detailed here.

Business Oregon's UAS Industry survey identified more than forty companies with a combined employment of more than 1,000 in Oregon. Based on the survey's results, an economic input-output model (IMPLAN) was used to estimate the direct, indirect, and induced economic impacts on the state’s economy. The UAS sector is projected to grow at an annual rate of 14% to 20% annually over the next decade across the US. Oregon can take specific steps to be ready for this growth and take advantage of the significant increase in drone commerce. Read the full report here.

The HRVHS FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team has taken on FLL as its project this year, led by Team Captain Lucas Elliott. Hood River is sponsoring an FLL tournament on December 10th and is in need of volunteers! To volunteer,

The commitment is most of the day and requires volunteer sign up, a background check, and depending on the position, some training. Questions may be directed to Dave Slover. Please consider volunteering, and/or getting your teenagers to volunteer!

The FCC's Broadband Map will be used to help identify the communities most in need of funding for high-speed internet projects. Accurate information on this map will guide how the Federal broadband funds will actually be distributed. Follow the link to Check the accuracy of your location's reported service on the national map and to report incorrect or incomplete information.

December 12th: Gorge to Mountain Shuttle begins.

December 15th: 2023 GOrge Pass pre-sales will begin. This is a great stocking stuffer!

January 1st- December 31st, 2023: Ride everywhere with your GOrge Pass. The GOrge Pass allows unlimited ridership on fixed routes in Skamania, Klickitat, Hood River, and Wasco Counties!

Mt. Adams Institute is presenting a talk on the Mitchell Point Tunnel reconstruction. The talk will focus on the geo-engineering and tech involved in creating these tunnels. 

Learn more and register here.

For Educators in Southwest Washington for accessing Career Connect SW funding to attract new and expand innovative program builders and increase the capability of all partners to reach P-20 students from priority populations (low-income, rural, BIPOC and Native American students) in Career Connected Learning!

To learn more, contact Vickei Hrdina

The funding request form is open until 5pm on December 12, 2022.

If you’re a small business with an eligible activity occurring between October 1, 2022 and September 29, 2023, then you’re a prime candidate for our State Trade Expansion Program (STEP)!

For more information on STEP, visit here. The grant application can be completed online by setting up an account on Business Oregon’s Export Application Portal and submitting your event/project details for review. The application process typically takes about 10-15 minutes to complete.

Contact Jessica Sedacy at 971-718-6604 with questions. 

This Supply Chain Opportunities Conference is designed as a combination of presentations and roundtable discussions to help companies develop new knowledge, new contacts, and new business. Manufacturers will hear from primes/OEM about their supply chain needs. Roundtable discussions with other peer manufacturers create an opportunity to make connections and increase sourcing within the Pacific Northwest.

Learn more about this opportunity here. 

Contact Alexa.BYERS@biz.oregon.gov with questions. 

This DEI Lunch & Learn session brings a heart-centered approach to DEIA. Disability is the one minority group that anyone can enter at any given time. Yet, disability is often either forgotten or mentioned last in the conversation of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Led by Marisa Hamamoto, founder of Infinite Flow, a professional dance company that employs disabled and nondisabled dancers with diverse, intersectional identities with a mission to dismantle biases and promote inclusion, and joined by a few Infinite Flow artists, this will be a soul-filling conversation destigmatizing and demystifying disability, and how each of us can be an ally to one another.

The Career & Internship Center has opened up Employer Registration for the all-industries and all-majors virtual fair coming up in February 2023. The Winter Fair is the college's largest student engagement Fair of the year! Sign up, mark your calendars, & set your early talent acquisition + relationship building plans for 2023 with Huskies now. The deadline to register is February 1, 2023.

Questions? Contact cicevents@uw.edu