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This two-day, beginner-friendly workshop introduces participants to the foundational concepts, applications, and ethical considerations of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Designed for non-technical learners, it combines interactive lectures, hands-on demos, and group discussions to make AI accessible and engaging.

Day 1 focuses on core AI principles: what AI is, how it learns from data, and its major subfields like machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision. Participants explore real-world use cases and engage in a thoughtful dialogue about the ethics and bias surrounding AI systems.

Day 2 turns theory into practice with live demonstrations of AI tools, including generative AI, chatbots, and image classifiers. The day culminates in a capstone project where teams conceptualize or build a simple AI prototype and share their work with peers.

By the end of the workshop, learners walk away with a clear understanding of how AI works, where it’s headed, and how they can responsibly engage with AI technologies in their personal and professional lives.

Prerequisite: A work or student email account for Microsoft Copilot 365. Personal Gmail accounts will not include all the features that a work or student account offers.

Google NotebookLM and ChatGPT DALLE only require a Gmail account.

Day 1 will focus on using Microsoft Copilot in the workplace. Topics will include how to use Copilot in Microsoft Office, Outlook, Teams, and Microsoft Edge. You will learn how to access and personalize Copilot, manage chats, attach files, analyze spreadsheets, summarize emails, and export results to Word. The class will also cover Copilot’s Designer feature for creating images, videos, and infographics, building a custom agent, and deleting your chat history.

Day 2 will focus on other AI applications. You will learn the following apps:

• Canva AI – To create images
• ChatGPT DALLE for image generation
• Google NotebookLM as a research assistant to design reports, quizzes, flashcards, infographics, slide decks, and audio and video presentations.

Artificial intelligence is transforming how professionals communicate, write, and collaborate. This hands-on course teaches participants how to use generative AI tools to improve the quality, clarity, and efficiency of business writing while maintaining professional judgment and ethical responsibility.

Students will explore the fundamentals of AI, learn practical prompting techniques, and apply proven communication principles to create stronger emails, reports, presentations, summaries, proposals, and other workplace documents. Through interactive exercises and real-world business scenarios, participants will discover how to use AI as a productive writing partner to generate ideas, improve clarity, organize information, and accelerate content development.

Topics include:

• The 7 Cs of effective business communication
• AI fundamentals for business professionals
• Prompt engineering and prompt design
• Using AI to draft, revise, summarize, and improve business documents
• Best practices for accuracy, tone, and professionalism
• Risks, limitations, and responsible use of AI
• Advanced prompting techniques for higher-quality results

By the end of the course, participants will have practical strategies they can immediately apply to enhance their workplace writing, increase productivity, and confidently integrate AI into their daily professional communications.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way projects are planned, managed, and delivered. This introductory course provides project managers, team leaders, business professionals, and anyone involved in projects with a practical understanding of how AI can improve productivity, decision-making, communication, and project outcomes.

Participants will explore the fundamentals of AI, learn effective prompting techniques, and discover how AI can assist with creating project artifacts such as project charters, risk registers, stakeholder analyses, meeting summaries, and project communications. Through demonstrations and guided hands-on exercises, students will gain practical experience using AI tools while learning best practices for responsible and ethical AI use.

No technical or programming experience is required.

This course is ideal for:

• Project managers and project coordinators
• Team leaders, supervisors, and business analysts
• Agile practitioners and Scrum Masters
• Business professionals responsible for planning or managing projects
• Anyone interested in understanding how AI is changing project management

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Identify practical AI use cases across the project life cycle, including planning, scheduling, communication, risk management, and Agile delivery.
• Use effective prompting techniques to generate common project management deliverables.
• Recognize opportunities to improve team collaboration and decision-making with AI.
• Understand key ethical, governance, and data privacy considerations when using AI in project environments.
• Describe how AI is changing the role of the project manager and the skills needed for future success

An introduction to Microsoft Excel basics including: creating spreadsheets, formulas, functions, text, formatting, printing and quick charts. At the completion of the course, you will be able to perform basic Excel skills such as modifying an existing worksheet, building worksheets, copying and moving cells and much more.

This course will continue with Microsoft Excel topics includ­ing: Table Functionality, Flash Fill, Popular Functions, Evaluating Formulas, Named Ranges, Formatting with Conditional Formatting, Viewing Options, an Introduction to Data Validation, Vlookup, and Pivot Tables, and more.

Many businesses require individuals to possess advanced Excel skills. In this course, learn how to use What If Analysis tools such as Scenarios and Solver. Record and run macros, create advanced charts and use complex functions. Learn about Vlookup, Match, Index, Importing/Exporting Data, Analytical Tools, Goal Seek, Scenario, Solver, Running and Recording a Macro, Buttons, Shortcuts, Combo Charts, and more.

Advances in technology have made it possible to store ever increasing amounts of data. Along with this, the need to analyze that data and gain actionable insight is greater than ever. You already have experience working with Excel and creating basic PivotTables to summarize data. But, Excel is capable of doing much more. Being able to harness the power of advanced PivotTable features and create PivotCharts will help you to gain a competitive edge. You will not only be able to summarize data for you to analyze, but also organize the data in a way that can be meaningfully presented to others. This leads to data-driven business decisions that have a better chance for success for everyone involved.

This course is designed for participants who have a basic knowledge of Excel functions and want to discover how advanced functions can help save time at work. Learn how to analyze data using advanced formula skills by focusing on functions from various categories within the function library. Also learn how to create conditional formatting rules using formulas, perform complex calculations using Array formulas and create customized lists using data validation.

This training is dedicated to learning quick tricks on the top must-have skills for improving your efficiency with Excel: Date Validation, Logical Functions, Conditional Formatting, Lookup and Reference Functions, and Pivot Tables. These tools will help increase your productivity and motivate you to tackle your spreadsheets with ease. Join this quick power training to help boost your effectiveness and efficiency in Excel.

Microsoft SharePoint is an online collaboration tool that is prominent for businesses and organizations. At the end of this course, users will be able to navigate, update and search SharePoint documents, lists and libraries. Students will learn how to update their SharePoint profile, use SharePoint with Microsoft Office, and access SharePoint from mobile devices. This workshop is highly interactive and provides numerous hands-on opportunities for participants to practice skills learned as well as learn many SharePoint best practices.

Explore the fundamentals of cloud computing and learn how it’s transforming the way organizations store, access, and manage data. This course covers core concepts such as cloud models (public, private, hybrid), key services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), and the benefits of scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. Through practical examples, you’ll gain an understanding of how cloud technologies support business operations, enhance collaboration, and enable innovation. The course also highlights the importance of following relevant data privacy and security regulations, helping you use cloud solutions responsibly and securely in the workplace.

Concerned about online threats and data breaches? Dive into the fundamentals of cybersecurity with this introductory course. Learn to navigate the digital landscape confidently through core concepts and best practices. We will explore topics such as encryption, MFA, VPNs, phishing, social-engineering, and secure browsing habits to safeguard against common cyber-attack vectors. No prior cybersecurity experience is required, making this course an ideal entry point for those looking to build a foundation in protecting their personal and professional digital assets.

Day 1: Personal Efficiency & Organization

Participants will focus on mastering the core pillars of the Google Workspace communication suite. By the end of this session, attendees will be able to manage high volumes of email effectively using Gmail’s advanced sorting and filtering tools, and they will gain the skills to schedule, manage, and share complex team itineraries within Google Calendar.

Day 2: Streamlined Team Coordination

Participants will explore the primary tools for real-time team interaction and task organization. This includes using Google Keep for capturing and sharing collaborative notes, leveraging Google Chat for organized project discussions and file sharing, and hosting effective Google Meet sessions to facilitate seamless video communication across the team.

Day 3: Collaborative Documents & Data

This session focuses on the essential mechanics of co-authoring and data management. Participants will gain practical experience in Google Docs by creating and editing documents in real time with teammates, and they will learn to utilize Google Sheets to organize, sort, and analyze data sets while maintaining a single, shared source of truth for the entire team.

Day 4: Data Collection & Centralized Hubs

Participants will learn the fundamentals of advanced data collection and presentation by using Google Slides, Forms, and Sites. Attendees will design engaging presentations, build logic-based surveys to collect structured feedback, and finally bring everything together by creating a basic, collaborative website that serves as a central hub for all project assets.

This hands-on, two-day training is designed for marketing professionals, business owners, administrative staff, educators, and anyone who needs to create creative materials for work. Participants will learn how to use Canva’s design tools and templates to create polished materials for digital and print use.

Through practical exercises, you’ll learn how to create social media graphics, presentations, flyers, promotional materials, documents, and other visual content while developing skills in layout, branding, images, typography, and design consistency.

What you’ll learn:

• Navigate Canva and use templates, layouts, and design tools
• Create professional graphics for social media and digital marketing
• Design flyers, promotional materials, presentations, and workplace documents
• Use images, graphics, text, and visual elements effectively
• Apply branding, fonts, colors, and design consistency
• Resize and adapt designs for different platforms and formats
• Use Canva’s AI-powered features to support content creation and design
• Prepare and share designs for digital and print use

This class begins with an overview of the Databricks workspace and Unity Catalog, including how Catalogs, Schemas, and sample datasets are used to organize data.

From there, you will work in Databricks notebooks and the SQL Editor to write SQL queries and analyze data, with Genie Code, an AI agent built into Databricks, there to help write queries, diagnose errors, and answer questions about your data.

You will also learn Lakeflow Designer, a drag and drop tool for cleaning and transforming data without writing code.

The class then moves into Databricks AI/BI, where you will build dashboards, create charts and graphs, and apply filters, with Genie Agents assisting with dashboard creation and answering data questions along the way.

The class wraps up with an introduction to Genie One, an AI powered data assistant that lets non-technical users and business teams ask questions about the data in a chat box, view dashboards, and use custom apps without writing any code. Finally, you will learn how to publish a Databricks dashboard and how to connect your Databricks data to tools like Power BI and Tableau.

This Workforce Development Power Automate class is designed for business professionals who want to automate workflows and business processes across Microsoft applications. In this class, we will use Microsoft Power Automate, Excel, SharePoint, Microsoft Forms, and Outlook to increase productivity and reduce the time spent on repetitive office tasks. We will build workflows from Power Automate templates and from scratch. You will learn how to create flows that include automated approvals, notifications, conditional logic, and Microsoft Forms integration. For example, we will build a workflow that instantly approves expenses under $250 and escalates higher amounts to a manager by email for their approval. We will also build a PTO request form that gets sent to a manager by email so they can approve or deny the request.

Learn how to read shop and engineering blueprints and how to fabricate parts and perform assembly operations. Learn current drafting standards and blueprint reading techniques, review standard lines and symbols, sketching techniques, orthographic projection, auxiliary views, drawings, dimensions, tolerances, sectional views, title block information, machining specifications and specialized forms of engineering drawings. Learn how to draw principal and isometric views and understand how blueprints and tolerances relate to the manufacturing process.

This course will provide essential knowledge of how to create a well-structured GD&T, which will improve communications within your machine shop and ensure everyone involved is speaking the same language. GD&T concepts covered will include CNC machining tolerances, the Datum Reference Frame (DRF), interpretation of symbols, the Feature Control Frame, communicating basic dimensions and material condition modifiers.

This course covers precision measurements and elementary theory of cutting and machining methods with emphasis on the proper operation of the manual lathe and the vertical mill.

This course provides a practical application of computerized product development and related prototyping concepts, as well as exposure to basic G-code programming, machine setup, manual and post processed programs, tool offsets and tool changing. Participants will be able to implement all previously learned prototyping concepts to successfully setup and operate CNC milling and CNC turning centers.