CNM Ingenuity's Success Stories
Workshops Help K-12 Teachers Create Successful Virtual Learning Environments
No matter what happens with COVID-19, online learning will be a key part of the upcoming K-12 school year for all New Mexico kids. To ensure their teachers are prepared, faculty members in CNM’s Teacher Education program designed a workshop that would help them design optimized virtual learning environments. Now, New Mexico’s Public Education Department wants to […]
FUSE Makerspace Steps Up to Help Make/Distribute PPE for Frontline Healthcare Workers
If you build it, they will use it. That’s what CNM’s FUSE Makerspace quickly found out as the COVID-19 pandemic started. While the space is currently unable to offer its regular in-person classes, FUSE has transitioned all of its equipment and resources over to building, cleaning, and distributing personal protective equipment (PPE) that’s being shipped […]
Deep Dive Digital Media partners with WESST Comcast Studio – students gain valuable skills
Judah Medina-Armstrong knew he wanted a career focused on art and creativity. The problem was that he couldn’t see himself on a traditional college track. He was working in foodservice and doing art on the side, when he discovered Deep Dive Coding’s Digital Media Bootcamp. When he started the bootcamp, Judah immediately took to nontraditional […]
New Mexico Startup Aims to Standardize Touch Pressure for Massage Therapists, Other Healthcare Pros
From massage therapy to occupational therapy, touch pressure is a prevalent practice that lacks precise training and consistency of care. That’s about to change. Most massage therapists ask clients how strong a massage they’d like – such as “light,” “firm,” and “deep.” They make sense, but their meaning can vary wildly between therapists. One massage […]
Deep Dive Coding Wins ‘Excellence in Workforce Development Award’
Albuquerque Economic Development recognized CNM Ingenuity’s popular Deep Dive Coding bootcamps for their leading role in skilling up the local workforce. Albuquerque Economic Development (AED) has announced that CNM Ingenuity’s Deep Dive Coding is the winner of its Excellence in Workforce Development Award, which is part of its inaugural 505 Awards. According to AED, the […]
CNM, City of Albuquerque Announce New Workforce Development Program
Program to help small businesses grow by bolstering their employees’ skills in key areas Jan 09, 2020 On Thursday, Jan. 9, CNM President Tracy Hartzler joined Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller and Synthia Jaramillo, Director of Economic Development for the City of Albuquerque, to announce a new workforce development program, Job Training Albuquerque (JTA). JTA enables […]
The Resources for Life Change
In April 2018, Jacques attended CNM Ingenuity’s Java + Android bootcamp at Deep Dive Coding, with the assistance from the TechHire New Mexico program at the NM Workforce Connection and a grant through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Deep Dive Coding Joins Forces with Cultivating Coders to Benefit Youth
CNM Ingenuity’s Deep Dive Coding and Cultivating Coders have teamed up to help connect more young people, especially underserved populations, to high-quality coding jobs in an increasingly digital economy. Together, the two organizations expect to complement each other’s strengths, increase their collective reach and make greater impacts on the state’s digital workforce and economy. “This […]
The Entrepreneurial Spirit
If you stand back and watch Kendra Loring, who runs a business in the South Valley that uses horses for therapy, it’s clear she has a certain way with both animals and humans. She’s good-natured but direct, patient but motivated, and everyone and everything around her seems to respond in kind. This approach has helped […]
Faces of CNM: Jullyane Hawkins
Jullyane Hawkins speaks perfect English, but she speaks it with an accent because she’s originally from Brazil. This wasn’t a huge problem here in the States until she tried to put her Tourism and Hotel Management degrees to use. Most recently, Jullyane, 27, was working in customer service in Clovis (her husband is in the Air […]
Student Becomes First Deaf Person in NM to Pass Exam to Drive Big Rigs
Fernando Ramirez-Savon, New Mexico’s first deaf person to pass the state’s Third Party Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) exam that allows him to drive a big rig, learned his truck driving skills at CNM. “He was determined,” said Vardis Gaus, chair of CNM’s Truck Driving Program. With accommodations that CNM provided for him, “Fernando learned how […]
