Deer River Community Tech Hub: Chamber Member Feedback
Smart North, Deer River Schools, Essentia Health: Deer River, and several other community partners are collaborating to get your inputs on a new initiative in Deer River called the 'Community Tech Hub'; A safe and joyous community center, where youth in 6th-12th grades get access to the latest technology and tools to imagine, create, learn, along with mentorship and career pathways. This space and technology will also be open for community member use at various times.

The youth will also be trained to go back into their community as the 'community tech squad' that provide digital and tech literacy and support to the multigenerational residents and small businesses.

Smart North is a not for profit coalition of public, private, civic, entrepreneurial and academic organizations and individuals committed to transforming livability and digital equity in MN, through smart technologies, intelligent design and data.

We believe this initiative would help keep the youth in the community, create a skilled tech talent pipeline and bring jobs to the region.

This is a quick survey ( 5 minutes). We invite your inputs, assess your needs and interest to support this. We truly appreciate your time!

Thank you.
Deer River Community Tech Hub partners

For more information contact Ara Anderson, Dean of Students Deer River Schools @ 218-256-3413 (cell) or aanderson@isd317.org
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Name
Company Name
Contact Information
Your title and role in the company
What Industry (s) does your company best fit into?
Company size ( number of employees)
What general technical skills would you hire for today? For example; cyber security, digital marketing, data analytics, MS Office, etc
What specific company or industry- related skills are needed for your company today and/or in 1-3 years? List as many as relevant.
Do you feel that you have an adequate pipeline and availability of talent locally to fulfill your company's needs?
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Which department (s) and/or skills do you have the most tough time recruiting talent for locally?
Please explain briefly why you chose that answer above
If you don't find required talent/skills locally, do you recruit technical talent locally,  regionally, or from out of state? If so, from where?
Is your company currently, or will be, open to virtual employees/jobs for certain departments?
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If yes, maybe or other, please mention which roles or departments?
If there was community tech hub for youth (as described in the introduction above), would your company be open to offering training programs, internships and/or apprenticeships to the youth in this hub?
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If yes, would the internships/apprenticeships be paid or unpaid?
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Any other comments or insights that could be helpful to you through these Tech Hubs?
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