$6,000 in prizes!
Registration Deadline: November 22, 2019
If you are in High School in Indiana, you can team up with your classmates to solve a problem and create a prototype by employing Innovation, Design, Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing, and Automation.
Learn more about the ongoing IDEAA Challenge competition:
2021 IDEAA Summer Program
Save the Date: July 5 – July 23, 2021
The IDEAA Summer program provides an excellent opportunity for anyone who wants to start a career in product design, engineering, and manufacturing.
The IDEAA Summer Program will offer six courses to introduce the participants to Design and Rapid Prototyping, with time to work on projects and have hands-on experience.
Design & Rapid Prototyping
The DRP Program (Design & Rapid Prototyping) Program provides an excellent opportunity for anyone who wants to learn more and get involved in the IDEAA fields: Innovations, Design, Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing, and Automation.
This three-week course will also prepare you for college, technical careers and internships.
The IDEAA Partnership is a Health & Science Innovations workforce development initiative, and a cross-sector partnership dedicated to the implementation of a comprehensive pipeline that attracts and prepares new talent to meet the needs of employers with engineering, prototyping, and manufacturing operations; through hands-on workshops, courses, certification curriculum, credentialing, project based learning and practice opportunities. Partners include Design Bank, First Maker Space, Maker Youth Foundation, Direct Employers Institute, and CAE-net.com. This initiative is supported by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development (DWD) through their Skill Up Indiana! Grant.
Please contact us for more information or join our waiting list.
Students in the waiting list will have priority for registration when new courses open.
You may register for any of the following individual courses; or you may take all 6 core courses to complete our Certificate in Design and Rapid Prototyping. Each course is between 20 and 24 hours that are scheduled across 4 to 6 weeks. These courses are developed in collaboration with employers in Central Indiana.
Design & Rapid Prototyping Courses:
- Product Development
- Intro to Design
- Intro to Making
- Digital Processes, Vectors and Geometries
- Prototyping
- Computer Aided Engineering
Additional Courses
- AutoCAD /Solidworks
- Industrial Design
- 3D Animation and Virtual Reality
- Intro to Graphical Dimensioning and Tolerances (online)
- Project Management
- Data Security
- MS Office
DirectEmployers Institute
DirectEmployers Institute brings learning to life by uniting public and private employers, schools and non-profit organizations that have a passion for creating a diversified workforce for students who are socioeconomically disadvantaged due to underrepresentation or disabilities. We inspire and prepare the next generation of a more diverse global workforce by bringing a simulated workplace environment directly to students in our state-of-the-art, project-based STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Center and through local workplace learning programs.
Studio B Creative Exchange
Studio B Creative Exchange is an INdy based innovation space for women, creative and social entrepreneurs. We offer collaborative co-working or private workspace, event and proof-of-concept space along with programming to increase awareness, access to resources and business savvy for believers, creators and impact makers and those who support them.
We have a special penchant for career and entrepreneurial women and feature an exclusive area and programming through the Sassee B Society dedicated to your success and well-being.
Studio B’s monthly events-Beauty & the Beats- celebrating the visual and performing arts, CreativExchange- a innovators sharespace and entrepreneurial marketplace, and accelerator program Catalyst offer a place to connect and make ideas happen.