Emergent Campus

The Emergent Campus team was honored to receive one of only five Stephen H. Hart awards for historic preservation from the state historic society, presented at the History Colorado Center on April, 16th. Our award highlighted adaptive reuse of the campus for job creation in Fremont County. Fremont Economic Development Corp, Pax8, and Barn Owl Precision Agriculture were included in our video segment to talk about our region and how this collective effort is generating strong economic impact for the community. #ReimagineRural History Colorado’s State Historical Fund and State Historic Preservation Office are deeply involved in numerous archaeology and historic preservation initiatives spanning communities across the state each year. From this long and impressive list, Emergent Campus has been selected to receive the History Colorado Board of Directors’ Award and will be celebrated as one of only five projects being honored in 2024 at History Colorado’s annual Stephen H. Hart Awards celebration. “This year's awardees are a beautiful demonstration of how preservation combined with community can provide solutions to some of today's challenges,” said Dawn DiPrince, President/CEO of History Colorado & State Historic Preservation Officer. “We are recognizing projects that create affordable housing, build an inclusive historic record, and catalyze economic opportunity in rural Colorado.” History Colorado Board Award: Emergent Campus | Florence, CO Originally located in Downtown Canon City, the Emergent Campus invests in rural prosperity by bringing high tech jobs to rural Colorado and providing space for innovation sector workers, remote tech workers, and other entrepreneurs. Since Emergent Campus moved into the historic Florence High School in 2019, it has actively transformed the space to provide co-working and business offices to provide an attractive solution for tech companies seeking lower operating costs. This transformed space and extended program is responsible for 80+ new tech-based jobs in Fremont County, all while maintaining the historic integrity of Florence High School. Emergent Campus is being recognized for being a strong proponent of adaptive reuse and its commitment to historic preservation and effort to have the Florence High School Building listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to the work done in Florence, the Emergent Campus is working to apply their successful model of adaptively reusing historic buildings to generate tech sector jobs to Trinidad. Using a variety of funding sources – and strategic partnerships with Trinidad State College and local school district – this future extension of Emergent Campus is intended to provide education and job opportunities that are currently not available in Trinidad and will be housed at Trinidad's historic Park School.

From the 14th floor of the Intercontinental Hotel in Berlin. Justin Passero being interviewed by the Global Chief People Officer of Pax8 about his career path from returning vet, to corrections officer, to cybersecurity professional. Justin was one of the first employees to start their tech career at Emergent Campus through Pax8's Rural Empowerment program, creating job opportunities for newly trained tech workers in southern Colorado. "Justin graduated from Regis University with a Masters in Cybersecurity & Terrorism. He is currently working as an engineer for DefensX. He is passionate about current and emerging technology as well as learning to protect private personal data from both security and privacy breaches." #CyberSecurity and #RuralTechJobs in #FremontCounty

On Thursday, September 26th Emergent Campus Florence hosted over 60 stakeholders from across the state to kickoff our work for the Emergent Campus project.   This meeting brought together Emergent Campus staff, a long list of non-profits, business leaders, faculty from Trinidad State College and Pueblo Community College, 3 school districts, internship coordinators, and other stakeholders for the region stretching from Fremont to Las Animas County. Throughout the day we worked in whole group discussions and small group breakout sessions where we shared and aligned strategies, created a plan of action for next steps, and made in person connections with all the stakeholders involved with the Emergent Campus expansion and the new Emergent Campus Trinidad location. We all left with a greater sense of pride, passion, inspiration, hope, and a collective vision for rural workforce development and sustainable community economies. We cannot wait to see this project continue to unfold with this incredible team!

DJ James from FEDC TechSTART and Emergent Campus!

We're looking forward to once again having DJ as our guest. His story has been an inspiration to many in our community that "rural people" can be some of the most creative, innovative, and high-performing professionals despite starting with limited resources.

From now until the end of October, Haas Technical Writing will offer an in-person up to 4-hour workshop for businesses in Fremont, Custer, Chaffee, Pueblo, and El Paso Counties. The workshop will focus on learning to write Standard Operating Procedures. The cost of the workshop is 50% off the regular price. “Small or growing businesses of all types need to document their operating procedures but often lack the knowledge to do it themselves or the resources to hire someone to write them. All businesses should have their operating procedures documented, but the customers who would benefit the most from this are small—to medium-sized businesses that have experienced some growth and are looking to grow. The second course (coming soon) teaches businesses how to evaluate their processes to determine if they are scalable and how to modify them if they are not. As for business type specifically - any and all – whether you’re a cosmetic LED mask company, a fiberglass tank manufacturer, a granite countertop manufacturer, or tech focused, your business will likely benefit.” If you are located outside of this geographical area but would still like to attend the workshop, please email Jon at [email protected] to discuss alternative options.   https://lnkd.in/ebNsC5mx hashtag#sops hashtag#technicalwriting hashtag#soco

It was a pleasure having you Lisa! We are excited for the opportunities to collaborate more with Skill Advance Colorado!

Barn Owl Precision Ag is headed to Silicon Flatirons!

Second-61 technician, Jesse, training CIS interns from Pueblo Community College!  

David from Rimo3, Arizona, visiting the Florence office!