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WiseNxt pitch is a pitch that The Economic Group (hereinafter, #The Pitcher) utilizes in order to attract partners (hereinafter, #Our Partners) in Kenya and around the world into development, administering, and marketing of smooth school-to-work transitions under #The Pitcher's #WiseNxt offerings.

CNMCyber Team (hereinafter, #We), which is a group of #The Pitcher's volunteers, oversees the development on #The Pitcher's side, as well as administers #The practice we envision and markets #Our offerings on behalf of #The Pitcher.


Contents

In a nutshell

This section covers (a) #30-second pitch, (b) our top-level objectives, which #We call #Bridging the gaps, (c) #Our aspirations or why #We do what #We do, (d) #Our commitments to #The Students, (e) #Our DevOps or how #We do what #We do, (f) #Our limitations, (g) #Our needs, and (h) #Our story or where #We are coming from and where #We are heading to.

30-second pitch

We at WiseNxt.com get school students of today ready for jobs of tomorrow. To explore career options and see what works for young people best, we place each of them in job-alike practice. To discover the ideal match, students will touch hundreds of tasks and occupations. And, of course, that work experience features artificial intelligence or AI and other information technologies. The future of work is AI -- join us today at WiseNxt.com/parents

Bridging the gaps

For the purposes of this wikipage, Bridging the gaps refers to top-level objectives for #Our offerings. They shall strive to achieve:
  1. Identify #The Students' professional aptitudes, inclinations, and interests, as well as their strengths, weaknesses, and special features.
  2. Determine #Target occupations or types of job that are feasible for each of #The Students to land and those industries that align with the aptitudes and interests of that singular student.
  3. Help #The Students plan in "big-picture" details their career development and landing of meaningful, high-quality jobs. Notably, this help may include utilizing opportunities of #Our Partners.
  4. Provide #The Students with introductory #Competency credentials, #Job-related networking, and #Work experience in order to set them up for success in their career development and, further, on the job market.
#Our commitments are to leading #The Students through the first three stages of #The Pipeline and preparing them for success beyond. To sum our top-level objectives up, #We develop #The services we build to make #Our aspirations real and are doing so within #Our limitations.

Kenya specifics

With regards to Kenya, #The Pitcher's goal is assisting youth in entering the workforce. According to "Youth Employment Initiatives in Kenya. Report of a Review Commissioned by the World Bank and Kenya Vision 2030",

Kenya faces a significant unemployment problem with youth being hit hardest. The high unemployment is related to the overall investment climate in the country and the economy’s low capacity to create new jobs. But youth find it particularly difficult to enter the labour market. Reasons for this are complex. They range from deficits in education and skills to lack of work experience, difficulties to obtain information about career options and job chances, irrational recruitment practices of employers, and the lack of necessary assets and attitudes to become self-employed. (Source: https://vision2030.go.ke/publication/youth-employment-initiatives-in-kenya/)

Our aspirations

For the purposes of this wikipage, our aspirations refer to why #We do what #We do. Our mission is to make school-to-work transition and youth entrance to the workforce as smooth as possible. Our aspirations include both:
Because of #Our limitations, #We would like to limit our aspirations to our top-level objectives stated in the #Bridging the gaps section and, principally, will not consider entering into the secondary education, job training, and recruitment fields regardless of any circumstance.

Our commitments

With regards to #The Students, #We are committed to:
  1. Guiding #The Students through the first three stages of #The Pipeline.
  2. Preparing #The Students for building their #KSAs on the fourth stage and starting working full-time in the #Occupation that we together have identified as a #Target occupation on the fifth stage of #The Pipeline.
Our potential commitments to #Our Partners are listed in the #What we can commit to section of this wikipage.

Our DevOps

For the purposes of this wikipage, our DevOps refers to our approach to development or how #We do what #We do. This approach combines continuous development (Dev) and operations (Ops) of services behind #Our offerings. To advance #WiseNxt and other products, both Dev and Ops are run at the same time:
  1. On the Dev side, #We produce, deliver, and deploy new products or modifications of existing products.
  2. On the Ops side, #The Students use our work products to allow us to identify areas of further production, delivery, and deployment.
In addition, many employers value competency in DevOps by itself. To continuously provide #The Students with opportunities to have DevOps experience, #We are not going to ever complete #The services we build and finalize #The practice we envision. By design, they need to be under both continuous development (Dev) and operations (Ops) as long as #Our offerings exist.

Our limitations

#We are a group of volunteers who represent no business. Because of that, #We cannot provide #The Students with secondary and/or vocational education. Moreover, the educational market is saturated and there are many players on that field.
At the same time, #We are going to help "buyers" of education make wiser "purchase" decisions. Indeed, secondary and vocational education are expensive phenomena. Even if they don't cost money, they take time.
In addition, #We plan to match those of #The Students who need education, but cannot afford it based on their own resources, with those who may pay for it. #We are constantly looking for #Our Partners such as potential employers, education providers, and other stakeholders. To clarify, #We cannot be on the market of educational match-making; #We cannot offer that service to the general public. #We have to limit that type of help down to #The Students in good standings exclusively.

Our needs

Based on #Our aspirations and #Our limitations, our business needs are:

Our story

For the purposes of this wikipage, our story refers to this very description of where #We are coming from and where #We are heading to.
Since 2012, #The Pitcher generally and #We specifically have been developing services for those who are thinking about careers and looking for jobs to begin with. #Our offerings feature artificial intelligence, #Minimal training, and #Workplace sandboxes to deliver #Career-planning help, #Entry-level credentialing, #Job-related networking, #Vocational orientation, and #Work experience to #The Students.
To advance #Our offerings, #We would like to deploy the #DevOps model. #The Students would test the available products during one session and, based on that testing, new products would be developed until the next session.
Such development requires #The Students. Therefore, #We are now looking for #Our Partners, most likely, high schools or whatever else that can bring a sizeable number of #The Students from our #Primary audience.
To the partnership, #We bring #Course prototypes, #Training experience, #Workplace sandboxes, and #Limited financing. From #Our Partners, #We expect their #Expertise in youth work and #The Students to participate.

Our offerings

For the purposes of this wikipage, our offerings refer to our signature work products that we market for #Bridging the gaps. There are three of our offerings; they include (a) #WiseNxt Academy, (b) #EmployableU Camp, and (c) #AINurtz Career Day.

Each of our offerings is a combination of #The services we build. The #Comparisons of our offers section of this wikipage contains tables that compare our offerings.

#We are working on each of those products. In addition to our offerings, #We may promote other #Brands of #The Pitcher such as #CNMCyber and #Opplet. We may also promote products of #Our Partners and #VIT to the extend that is beneficial to #The Students.

AINurtz Career Day

AINurtz Career Day is the shortened version of #EmployableU Camp and, therefore, the shortest product that #We are going to develop, administer, and market. #AINurtz Career Day is designed to be delivered in one day as a #Career day.
As a market exchangeable, #AINurtz Career Day belongs to the #AINurtz #Product line. The goal of #AINurtz Career Day is making sure that #The Students are aware of career development and job search generally and #Career-planning help, #Entry-level credentialing, #Job-related networking, #Vocational orientation, and #Work experience specifically. They shall also learn about their opportunities to get prepared and be successful on the job market.
Although #AINurtz Career Day can be lightly personalized through Q&A sessions, it falls short from one-on-one guidance that is available for participants of #WiseNxt Academy, volunteers of #CNMCyber, or customers of #Careerprise. Those participants of #AINurtz Career Day who are interested in fuller scopes can switch to #EmployableU Camp, #WiseNxt Academy, or #Careerprise products upon their graduation from #AINurtz Career Day.

EmployableU Camp

EmployableU Camp is the shortened version of #WiseNxt Academy that is designed to be delivered as a #Summer camp. Both the Camp and #WiseNxt Academy feature full-scope #WorldOpp Orientation and #EmployableU Concepts courses. However, the scope of #CNMCyber Bootcamps including their curriculum, job-alike practice, and guided entrance to the labour market is significantly reduced in comparison with #WiseNxt Academy.
As a market exchangeable, the Camp belongs to the #EmployableU #Product line. The Camp is designed to be delivered in 3 sessions at least and, therefore is still bigger than #AINurtz Career Day.
Two goals of the Camp is (a) preparing #The Students for career development and (b) making sure that they are more employable than before enrolling into the Camp. #We expect that graduates from the Camp should know how to identify their #Target occupations, choices for acquiring the needed #KSAs, and landing their jobs. Those participants of the Camp who are interested in a fuller scope can switch to #WiseNxt Academy while being enrolled in or after graduation from the Camp.

WiseNxt Academy

WiseNxt Academy is our flagship offering that delivers to #The Students the fullest scope of #The services we build. Among #Our offerings, #WiseNxt Academy is the most comprehensive market exchangeable. It represents the fullest scope of the first three stages of #The Pipeline.
As a market exchangeable, #WiseNxt Academy belongs to the #WiseNxt #Product line. #We may suggest that some of #The Students would be employable as a result of #WiseNxt Academy. However, providing #The Students with full-time professional employment is not #WiseNxt Academy's objective. The #Bridging the gaps section of this wikipage expresses the objectives of #WiseNxt Academy best.
Since #WiseNxt Academy is designed to be friendly to high-school students, it can be delivered as an #After-school program. #We expect that it would benefit our #Primary audience the most.

The services we build

For the purposes of this wikipage, the services we build refer to services behind #Our offerings. #We would love to provide #The Students with #Workplace sandboxes, which shall be similar to regular workplace, so #The Students can practice with #The practice we envision in order to explore various professions in order to find the best match and earn #Competency credentials.

#We use #DevOps to advance our services. Since they heavily rely on #Opplet, #The Students shall also get #Tech support.

Career-planning help

For the purposes of this wikipage, career-planning help refers to services of providing #The Students with:
  1. Knowledge about career development, recruitment, and job search, initially, via #EmployableU Concepts.
  2. Personalized feedback by #Our Mentors.
  3. Software tools to build their careers, as well as skills to use those tools.

Entry-level credentialing

For the purposes of this wikipage, credentialing refers to services of:
  1. Providing #The Students with opportunities to earn #Competency credentials.
  2. Making sure that #VIT issues #Competency credentials to #The Students who have earned them, as well as that #VIT maintains credential records publicly, so potential employers may verify them.

Job-related networking

For the purposes of this wikipage, job-related networking refers to our services of helping #The Students to network professionally. Besides contacts with #Our Mentors and #The Students' peers, #The Students are welcome to undertake #Event-driven projects and participate in #Professional groups. Altogether with #Performance records, #The Students should be able to build their own professional networks.

Minimal training

Neither #The Pitcher nor #We are not training providers. With regards to job training, our goal is to connect #The Students with secondary education and/or vocational training providers.
At the same time, #We strive to provide #The Students with #Career-planning help, #Job-related networking, #Vocational orientation, and #Work experience. To enable #The Students to take full advantage of our services, #We offer minimal training.
Our introductory training reflects the #Learning sequence we use and based on #Course prototypes. The training scope is strictly limited to what #The Students need in order to graduate successfully from our programs.

Privacy

For the purposes of this wikipage, privacy refers to our services of protecting the privacy of #The Students. #CNMCyber doesn't collect any personally-identifiable data. Instead, each of #The Students is granted a fictitious identity within #CNMCyber. In addition, #CNMCyber doesn't require email addresses; everyone can register in #CBNCyber without email.
At the same time, #The Students normally want their names on #Competency credentials, so #The Students of the age of majority or their guardians may choose to provide their real names and so on to #The Pitcher in order to officially establish the #Competency credentials.

Student support

For the purposes of this wikipage, student support refers to our services of helping #The Students to be successful academically and socially. Because not only students need to be supported technologically, #Tech support is a separate section on this wikipage.
  1. CNMCyber events
  2. CNMCyber.com
  3. To get one-on-one connection, #The Students shall be served with a sufficient number of #Our Mentors, including #Staffers on the ground. #Our Mentors may also provide #The Students with some on-the-job training when needed.

Vocational orientation

Based on #The practice we envision, recommendations of #Our Mentors, and personal survey results, #The Students shall be advised about their vocational aptitudes, career options, and occupational paths. #We plan to utilize artificial intelligence (AI), requirements for which shall be defined and implemented.

Work experience

For the purposes of this wikipage, work experience refers to both professional experience that #The Students are welcome to obtain and our to services of providing #The Students with it.
Graduates from both #EmployableU Camp and #WiseNxt Academy will obtain work experience, which many employers value over other #Competency credentials. The graduates may choose to hide their records. Otherwise, the work experience records will be posted publicly, so potential employers can verify them.

Competency credentials

#We believe that professional credentials are highly desired outcome for most of #The Students. Since #The practice we envision is the only source for those credentials, they are not available to graduates from #AINurtz Career Day. Our service of #Entry-level credentialing is designed to give those who are enrolled into #EmployableU Camp and #WiseNxt Academy opportunities to earn them.

Certificates

Graduation from any quintile of #CNMCyber Bootcamps grants each of #The Students one of #KSACerts. Graduates from #WiseNxt Academy will earn four certificates, including #CITPMA. Graduates from #EmployableU Camp may have up to three: KSA Certified Event Organizer, KSA Certified Website Developer, and KSA Certified Digital Operator.
These #KSACerts are not tailored to any distinct profession, but are useful through various professional specialties and #Occupations.
In addition to #KSACerts, graduates from #EmployableU Camp and #WiseNxt Academy gain valuable #Work experience, which may qualify them partially or fully for pursuing other trade certificates. For instance, one year of project management experience is required for the Project Management Professional (PMP) designation. Graduates from #WiseNxt Academy would have already had about half of that.

Performance records

By itself, #Work experience generates professional records. At #CNMCyber, this record is always documented and, if needed, can be proven.
While being enrolled in #The practice we envision, #The Students shall also participate in #Professional groups. Altogether with professionally-meaningful connections, that participation shall generate records of profession-related performance such as delivering a speech, serving on a board, writing an article, etc.

Recommendations

Each of graduates from #WiseNxt Academy will receive an official professional recommendation from #Our Mentors. Some of graduates from #EmployableU Camp may also get that credential.

Learning sequence we use

#Our offerings utilize the first three stages of #The Pipeline. These stages are designed to provide #The Students with introductory work experience, career options, and guided entrance, normally, as apprentices to the labor market.

WorldOpp Orientation

WorldOpp Orientation is a brief, no more than 2 hour long, course that is designed to introduce #The Students to #Our offerings, #The services we build, #Competency credentials, #Learning sequence we use, #The practice we envision, #What we already get, #What we can commit to, as well as #Student motivation. In other words, #The Students will overview what they can expect from #The Pitcher and us, as well as what is expected from them while they are enrolled in #The Pipeline.
As a market exchangeable, the Orientation belongs to the #WorldOpp #Product line.

EmployableU Concepts

EmployableU Concepts is a lightweight, about 3-4 hour long, course that is designed to introduce #The Students to general concepts related to careers and career management, as well as employment, employability, self-employment, job markets, labor laws, occupations, professional credentials, recruitment, work characteristics, work arrangements, and workforce development.
As a market exchangeable, the Course belongs to the #EmployableU #Product line.

CNMCyber Bootcamps

CNMCyber Bootcamps combine #The practice we envision and formal transfer of knowledge that #The Students minimally need for that practice. The Bootcampts are composed of five quintiles, each of which represents formal curriculum and the practice that is designed to reinforce that curriculum.
Quintile # Quintile title Activity # Learning activity description Quintile-graduating #Certificates
1 Exploration of AI tools 1a Being helped via #CNMCyber Welcome KSA Certified AI Analyst
1b Taking AI Analyst Bootcamp lectures
1c Being helped via #CNMCyber Onboarding
1d Acting as CNM AI Analysts
2 Development of #Opplet Web 2a Taking Website Developer Bootcamp lectures KSA Certified Website Developer
2b Practicing with #Technology projects as CNM Website Developers
3 Organization of professional meetings 3a Being helped via #CNMCyber Welcome KSA Certified Event Organizer
3b Taking Event Organizer Bootcamp lectures
3c Practicing with #Event-driven projects as CNM Event Organizers
4 Operations with #Opplet 4a Taking Cloud Operator Bootcamp lectures KSA Certified Digital Operator
4b Practicing with #Cloud operations as CNM Cloud Operators
5 Coordination of #CNMCyber 5a Taking Cyber Coordinator Bootcamp lectures Certified IT Project Management Associate (CITPMA)
5b Practicing with #Endeavor coordination as CNMCyber Coordinators; planning for the career is the graduation project.
As a market exchangeable, the Bootcamps belong to the #CNMCyber #Product line.

Educaship Fellowship

Educaship Fellowship is the fourth stage of #The Pipeline. At the #CNMCyber Bootcamps stage prior to the Fellowship, #The Students shall identify their #Target occupation and plan its landing. The goal of the Fellowship is to land one's full-time meaningful, high-quality job.
During the Fellowship, #The Students obtain those #KSAs that the #Target occupation requires, most importantly, while starting working in that occupation, initially, entry-level part-time. The Fellowship combines professional education and #Apprenticeships in order to prepare #The Students to the fifth stage, Careerprise Employment.
As a market exchangeable, the Fellowship belongs to the #Educaship #Product line. Upon their graduation from the Fellowship, #The Students get support while transitioning to professional jobs. If #The Students choose to be self-employed, they receive assets and attitudes to become the ones.

The practice we envision

For the purposes of this wikipage, practice refers to CNMCyber practice, in which #The Students undertake efforts to produce and/or operate CNMCyber products. The practice that we envision combines experiential learning, on-the-job training, and introductory #Work experience.

This section includes #Agnostic nature, #Choice of practice, #Exposure to technology, #Imaginative emphasis, #Job-alike activities, #Non-profit purposes, #Practice sprints, and #Real-world tasks sub-sections.

The #Tentative practice roles section of this wikipage describes the participants' tentative roles. The #From study to practice section describes transition from passive learning to active practice.

Agnostic nature

Objectives of CNMCyber Bootcamps generally and #The practice we envision exceptionally are to introduce #The Students to the workplace and to help them to identify their #Target occupations. Within #The Pipeline, occupational education and training occur at the #Educaship Fellowship stage.
So, just few parts of #The practice we envision present single #Occupations. The overwhelming majority of the practices can be met in workplaces across various industries and professions.

Choice of practice

To start each of #Practice sprints, #The Students shall choose the deliverable they would like to practice with. To collect ideas and requirements, #The Students organize meetings of #Professional groups related to the chosen deliverable, interview its stakeholders, as well as identify other sources of data to conduct further research.

Exposure to technology

While being placed in the drivers' seats of modern technology, #The Students also start their professional experience and earn #Competency credentials. Equally importantly, that practice may reveal or, at least, suggest professional aspirations of #The Students. #We envision to use practice's results for their #Vocational orientation.

Imaginative emphasis

Our #Training experience suggests that few primary and secondary schools nurture entrepreneurs, innovators, leaders, and self-starters. Those school mostly feature "don't do anything we haven't told you to do" approaches. The problem was identified centuries ago. The following quotes may demonstrate the issue,
  • The child is the first artist. Out of the material around him he creates a world of his own. The prototypes of the forms which he devises exist in life, but it is the thing which he himself makes that interests him, not its original in nature. His play is his expression. [...] Imagination surrenders to the intellect; emotion gives place to knowledge. Gradually the material world shuts in about us until it becomes for us a hard, inert thing, and no longer a living, changing presence, instinct with infinite possibilities of experience and feeling. -- Carleton Noyes, 1907
  • You have to let yourself go to be creative. Children possess this quality but then seem to lose it as they are told, "it's not the done thing". Pablo Picasso summed it up well; "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up". -- Ricky Gervais, 2011
To mitigate that problem, many components of #The practice we envision embed artistic, creative, imaginative, inventive, and visionary undertakings. Although #Cloud operations emphasize operations of what already exist rather than new creations, #We also use #Our DevOps to shape those operations as well.

Job-alike activities

#The practice we envision is job-alike. #The Students are to explore various #Occupations to find the best match. This practice can be compared to sampling on a marketplace, fitting rooms in clothing stores, and/or test drives in auto-dealerships. A prospective buyer is given a chance to try a thing before buying it.

Non-profit purposes

#The Students practice with non-profit endeavors only. Any value that those endeavors may produce must be available to the general public at no cost. In other words, the endeavors should benefit the public good and be offered free-of-charge. When #The Students are legally able to work commercially and if they would like to do so, they are welcome to switch to #Careerprise at any time. To be employed and paid, they would develop those services that are for sale on the market.

Practice sprints

While acting in #The practice we envision, #The Students deal with many various diverse pieces of practice rather than with one homogeneously constant performing.
To ensure that, the practice consists of multiple sprints. Because of #Choice of practice, #The Students choose what incremental deliverable they would like to practice with in a singular sprint.

Real-world tasks

As the core of #CNMCyber Bootcamps, #The Students are going to practice with real-world tasks in job simulation environments. A notable difference between real-world job and our practice is that #We welcome errors and mistakes. For that reason, practice tasks are designed to be non-sensitive and, therefore, risk tolerant.

From study to practice

Based on our #Training experience, many of #The Students have reported that transition from passive learning to #The practice we envision is the source of biggest challenges within #CNMCyber Bootcamps.

Two of our work products, #CNMCyber Welcome and #CNMCyber Onboarding shall provide #The Students during those transitions with opportunities to have their questions answered and possible issues resolved.

CNMCyber Onboarding

CNMCyber Onboarding is a bundle of our services designed to help #The Students start #The practice we envision. These services include:
  1. Periodic videoconferences for live interactions. Videoconference hosts demonstrate their sample work on available projects.
  2. CNMCyber Onboarding videos and CNMCyber.com Onboarding webpage with comment sections.
  3. CNMCyber Onboarding Space, which is a CNMCyber community. The demonstrations are to be recorded and shared as videos through this community.
Basically, #CNMCyber Onboarding shall help those of #The Students to whom #CNMCyber Welcome is no longer helpful.

CNMCyber Welcome

CNMCyber Welcome is a bundle of our services designed to help #The Students get to #CNMCyber Onboarding. These services include:
  1. Periodic videoconferences for live interactions.
  2. CNMCyber Welcome Video and CNMCyber.com Welcome webpage with comment sections.
  3. CNMCyber Welcome Space, which is a CNMCyber community.
Basically, #CNMCyber Welcome may help those who may be interested in #Our offerings to get graduated from #WorldOpp Orientation, #EmployableU Conceots, and lectures of Event Organizer Bootcamp. The last lecture of the bootcamp directs #The Students to #CNMCyber Onboarding where #The Students shall be served afterwards.

Tentative practice roles

While acting in #The practice we envision, #The Students play five consecutive roles.

As AI Analysts

As CNM AI Analysts, #The Students are to analyze various AI-enabled systems, compare them with similar products available on the market, and report their findings. While doing so, #The Students shall touch a number of analytic professions; they shall also start building their #KSAs in:
  1. Document production. While reporting their findings, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Desktop Publishers, Information and Record Clerks, News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists, as well as Technical Writers.
  2. Product evaluation. While evaluating various products available on the market, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Advertising and Promotions Managers, Appraisers of Personal and Business Property, Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators, Demonstrators and Product Promoters, Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers, Procurement Clerks, Purchasing Agents, Sales and Related Workers, Supply Chain Managers, as well as Wholesale and Retail Buyers.
  3. Testing and analysis. While testing AI-enabled systems, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Computer and Information Research Scientists, Computer Systems Analysts, Digital Forensics Analysts, Information Security Analysts, Penetration Testers, Quality Control Analysts, as well as Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers.
There is no list of available projects; #The Students would be encouraged to research the World Wide Web (WWW) to learn about new AI-enabled tools and test them in their #Workplace sandboxes. #The Students will receive personal #VMs with AI-enabled tools pre-installed.

As Website Developers

As CNM Website Developers, #The Students are to develop documentation and prototypes for websites and other technology products. While doing so, #The Students shall touch a number of development-oriented professions; they shall also start building their #KSAs in:
  1. AI application. While enhancing systems with artificial intelligence (AI) tools, #The Students may touch several emerging #Occupations such as Prompt Engineers, AI Ethicist, Chatbot Developers, IA Trainers, Large Model Scientists, as well as Digital Twin Engineers.
  2. Content creation. While creating website contents, including the graphics, multimedia, and texts, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Actors, Art Directors, Content Managers, Media Technical Directors/Managers, Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers, Producers and Directors, Proofreaders and Copy Markers, Special Effects Artists and Animators, Web and Digital Interface Designers, as well as Writers and Authors.
  3. Interactions design. While designing website contents, interfaces, and structures, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Commercial and Industrial Designers, Graphic Designers, Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists, Information Architects, Usability Analysts, UX Designers, as well as Web Digital Interface Designers.
  4. Technology development. While developing technologies behind the website, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Android Developers, Architectural and Engineering Managers, Computer Programmers, Database Architects, Front-End Developers, Information Security Engineers, iOS Developers, Software Developers, Solution Architects, Systems Engineers, as well as Web Developers.
  5. Web-search marketing. While working on search engine optimization (SEO), #The Students shall touch the Search Marketing Strategists #Occupation.
The best draft of a list of available projects is published on the CNM Website Projects wikipage. As per #Workplace sandboxes, CNM Nextcloud and Educaship WordPress instances will be added to #The Students' personal #VMs.

As Event Organizers

As CNM Event Organizers, #The Students are to organize business meetings of #Professional groups, as well as interviews with #Our Mentors and other CNMCyber products' stakeholders in order to gather information and/or generate ideas. While doing so, #The Students shall touch a number of people-oriented professions; they shall also start building their #KSAs in:
  1. AV production. While capturing audio and video during meetings and interviews, as well as producing media, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Audio and Video Technicians, Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers, Broadcast Technicians, Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film, Film and Video Editors, Lighting Technicians, as well as Sound Engineering Technicians.
  2. Interpersonal communication. Communicating upcoming events, possibly, moderating the events, and following them up contribute to interpersonal competence. The skills are often called people skills; it is difficult to imagine any job that would not require those. Further, #The Students may apply their new #KSAs to #Job-related networking.
  3. Event planning, particularly, executing an Event 5W3H concept. Experience in organizing of meetings is a great soft skill by itself. #The Students shall also get introduced to the Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners #Occupation.
  4. Marketing. While introducing upcoming events and their records, as well as positioning them on the market, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Account Managers, Advertising and Promotions Managers, Customer Relationship Managers, Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists, Marketing Managers, Online Merchants, Public Relations Specialists, Sales Engineers, as well as Social Media Marketers.
  5. Product design. While collecting stakeholders requirements and designing events, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Business Analysts, Business Intelligence Analysts, Product Designers, Product Managers, Product Owners, as well as Requirements Engineers.
The best draft of a list of available projects is published on the CNMCyber Event-Driven Projects wikipage. As a part of their #Workplace sandboxes, #The Students will receive: (a) CNMCyber.com's access to schedule meetings of #Professional groups, promote them, and capture events' results, (b) CNM Talk's access to conduct conferences, (c) personal #VMs with installed OBS Studios to record meetings and produce videos, as well as (d) CNM Tube access to post meeting videos.

As Cloud Operators

As CNM Cloud Operators, #The Students are to operate existing applications and their systems of #Opplet. While practicing with a particular application, they will review its existing documentation, research the topics at professional sources online, discover the actual technology, run its operations, and report their observations to other learners.
While doing so, #The Students shall touch a number of operations-oriented professions; they shall also start building their #KSAs in:
  1. Data management. While collecting, organizing, and analyzing operational data, #The Students shall touch #Occupations such as Accountants and Auditors, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Analysts, Bookkeepers, Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks, Intelligence Analysts, Operations Research Analysts, Statistical Assistants, Statisticians, as well as Survey Researchers.
  2. Document management. While collecting, organizing, and analyzing operational data, #The Students shall touch #Occupations such as Document Management Specialists, Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks, as well as Regulatory Affairs Specialists.
  3. Operations management. While managing existing systems' operations of #Opplet, #The Students shall touch #Occupations such as Business Operations Specialists, Functional Managers, General and Operations Managers, as well as Office Clerks
  4. Software administration. While administering existing applications and their systems of #Opplet, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Computer Network Support Specialists, Cybersecurity Professionals, Database Administrators, Network and Computer Systems Administrators, Technology Consultants, as well as Web Administrators.
The best draft of a list of available operations is not available yet. As per #Workplace sandboxes, #The Students will get access to (a) CNM Corp to report their practice time and issues, (b) CNM Lab to discover enterprise-level documentation.

As Project Coordinators

As CNMCyber Coordinators, #The Students are to coordinate the endeavors to develop new pieces of technology and/or to operate the existing ones. While doing so, #The Students shall touch a number of management-oriented professions; they shall also start building their #KSAs in:
  1. Contracts administration. While administering contracts, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Business Buyers, Contracts Administrators, File Clerks, Interviewers, Partner Liaisons, Procurement Managers, as well as Receptionists and Information Clerks.
  2. Endeavors administration. While observing enterprise administration and contractors' work, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Business Administrators, Configuration Managers, DevOps Engineers, Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants, Information Technology Project Managers, Project Management Specialists, as well as Scrum Masters.
  3. Human resources. While recruiting new contractors and detaining existing ones, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists, Compensation and Benefits Managers, Human Resources Assistants, Human Resources Managers, Human Resources Specialists, Industrial-Organizational Psychologists, as well as Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks.
  4. Workforce development. While developing the workforce, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Career/Technical Education Teachers, Training and Development Managers, as well as Training and Development Specialists.
The best draft of a list of available endeavors is published on the CNM Cloud Usable wikipage. This practice serves as a capstone to other practices of #CNMCyber Bootcamps. Similarly to previous practices, CNMCyber Coordinators deal with #Event-driven projects, #Technology projects, and #Cloud operations. However, they now do so on the customer's or manager's side, not on the provider's side. Thus, CNMCyber Coordinators are involved in recruitment and management as well.

Comparisons of our offers

This section contains three comparisons of #Our offerings. They are (a) #Engagement estimates, (b) #Services vs offers, and (c) #Within the sequence.

Descriptive comparison

#WiseNxt Academy is our fullest-scope, the most comprehensive offering. Its backbone is #The practice we envision, in which #The Students:
A limited scope of #The practice we envision is also included in our other offering, #EmployableU Camp. On the other hand, #AINurtz Career Day is the simplest offering, which intents to serve as our primary outreach vehicle. The rule of thumb is that the more comprehensive offering is, the fewer participants it attracts.

Engagement estimates

One size doesn't fit all. Every CNMCyber product behind #Our offerings is not designed to engage every learner. Based on #Training experience, we estimate various levels of engagement.
#What students we target* #AINurtz Career Day #EmployableU Camp** #WiseNxt Academy
School-age students, ages 12-14 60% 30-45% 25%
#Primary audience 85% 55-70% 50%
School students, graduation class 55% 25-40% 20%
College students 40% 10-25% 5%
Young professionals, entry-level workforce 37% 7-22% 2%
Mid-career workforce 38% 8-23% 3%
Upper-career workforce, second career launchers 43% 13-28% 8%
Seasoned seniors 36% 6-21% 1%
* The numbers that the table presents cannot be universal. The college student and young professional rates include a significant portion of statistics from pre-war Ukraine. The school student and adult estimates are largely based on our experience in the United States.
** Flexibility of #EmployableU Camp's scope causes flexibility of its engagement estimates.

Services vs offers

All the products behind #Our offerings offer some combination of #The services we build.
#The services we build #AINurtz Career Day #EmployableU Camp #WiseNxt Academy
#Career-planning help Not offered Offered partially Offered fully
#Entry-level credentialing Not offered Offered partially, no #CITPMA is available Offered fully
#Job-related networking Slightly touched Offered partially Offered fully
#Minimal training Slightly touched Offered partially Offered fully
#Privacy Offered fully Offered fully Offered fully
#Student support Offered minimally Offered partially Offered fully
#Vocational orientation Offered minimally Offered partially Offered fully
#Work experience Not offered Offered partially Offered fully

Within the sequence

All the products behind #Our offerings are built on #Learning sequence we use.
#Learning sequence we use #AINurtz Career Day #EmployableU Camp #WiseNxt Academy*
#WorldOpp Orientation Slightly touched Covered fully Covered fully
#EmployableU Concepts Covered partially Covered fully Covered fully
#CNMCyber Bootcamps Slightly touched Covered partially Covered fully
* Although none of #Our offerings covers #Educaship Fellowship, #WiseNxt Academy fully prepares for this next stage of #The Pipeline.

Job offers

For the purposes of this wikipage, job offers refer to the paid work that #VIT or other employers that are affiliated with #The Pitcher will propose to #The Students while they are enrolled in #The Pipeline.

#We welcome job offers as a part of career development. If you are one of #The Students who can legally work and need to earn for your living immediately, #We encourage you to look for other opportunities. Although our services are designed to help you to land full-time professional employment, that endeavor normally takes time, possibly, years.

Apprenticeships

#The Students' successful completion of #CNMCyber Bootcamps shall automatically lead to an offer to continue with #Educaship Fellowship. Apprenticeship is the backbone feature of this fourth stage of #The Pipeline. Its participants normally start working at some portion of a professional rate and their rates grow as their #KSAs grow.
Through its #Educaship program, #The Pitcher constantly looks for employers to accommodate the apprenticeships. Those #Students who choose to become system administrators, may conduct their apprenticeships on CNM Bureau Farm, CNM Campus Farm, and CNM Lab Farm.

Side work

For the purposes of this wikipage, side work refer to paid work that #VIT offers to #The Students as independent contractors. As soon as #The Students earn the KSA Certified Event Organizer credential, they receive an offer to execute the Careerprise contractor agreement.
Only people of the age of majority can be a party in that agreement. If #The Students cannot legally do so, they can possibly try to ask their legal guardians. In that case, the legal guardian may play a role of an independent contractor, while hiring a minor as a subcontractor.
Careerprise contractors may choose a project they would like to work on. Work on some of the projects require only skills to interview the customers; that is why #The Students' ability to organize meetings is vital.
The funded projects are listed on the Careerprise bizopp wikipage. That work is not designed as full-time professional employment. Both quantity of projects and their funding are limited. Nevertheless, #The Students may be benefited from paid part-time work while they are building their future careers.

The delivery we anticipate

After-school program

As of now, #We anticipate that #WiseNxt Academy would be initially offered as extracurricular activities within some after-school program.

Career day

As of now, #We believe that #AINurtz Career Day is best delivered as career days in partnership with schools, related not-for-profits, or government organizations that deal with youth and youth employment. Under a #Career day, #We assume a 2-4 hour seminar, in which its participants touch hands-on several professions.
Our expertise in organizing such events is extensive; our first career day occurred in a Microsoft store in Tyson's Corner, Virginia on June 12th, 2012 -- https://www.meetup.com/techdc/photos/9029432/ . At that time, the seminars were called "IT Career Orientation Day". During those events, the participants were offered to code, design an app, administer a website, etc.
The product can be adapted to the target audience to include anything from nursing to AI architects.

Global extensions

As of now, #We would like to consider global extensions when the schools in which #WiseNxt Academy is initially launched can collaborate; for instance, members of one team can participate in #Professional groups from different countries such as Ukraine (where #WiseNxt was supposed to be introduced originally), Kenya (where #KenyaX is going to be introduced), and USA (where an "adult" version of #WiseNxt called #CNMCyber was developed at first place).

Summer camp

As of now, #We guess that some series between short #Career days and extended #After-school programs can be delivered as #Summer camps in partnership with schools or those not-for-profits that deal with school-age students.

What we already get

Course prototypes

#We have developed several course prototypes:
  1. Initially, #We have built two courses, #WorldOpp Orientation and #EmployableU Concepts, as well as drafted the third one, #CNMCyber Bootcamps, in English and published them on CNM Cert.
  2. Later, #We translated the courses into Russian, introduced them in Ukraine, and advanced all three courses to #MVPs. In total, they served 2,000+ learners.
  3. Next, #We translated the courses into Ukrainian to use them in Ukrainian-language, original version of #WiseNxt.

Opplet

Opplet is our cloud-based technology behind #CNMCyber. Opplet.com is its official website, #Opplet Web is the network of websites within Opplet, and #Opplet.net is its user management system. Because of Opplet, #The Students get:
  • System accounts that #Opplet.net assigns automatically.
  • #Workplace sandboxes including #VMs with super-user permissions, as well as end-user, power-user, and/or administrator-level permissions for the common-access technology that they practice with.
As of October of 2023, about 67% of Opplet's #MVP is complete.

Training experience

#We started out in 2012 as a technical training team of one non-profit group in the Washington DC metro area. Since then, thousands of people participated in our IT training events. Most of training sessions were hands-on. Many of them, as well as their pictures, have been published at the CNMCyber Meetup group.
Specifically to school-age children, we organized several programs in partnership with Mott Community Center in Fairfax, as well as Microsoft stores in Arlington and Tyson's Corner, Virginia. We also accommodated some internships and learning programs. The longest lasted for an academic year by the end of which 12-year-old participants could develop webpages while coding with HTML/CSS/JavaScript, as well as mobile apps utilizing Android Studio.

Workplace sandboxes

Each of #The Students receives his or her technology sandbox that emulates one's workplace. The technology is added gradually, depending on the status of a particular student:
Software* Activities Delivered as Introduced in
HumHub To participate and to learn with #WorldOpp Orientation initially, and, when practicing with #Event-driven projects, to schedule meetings of #Professional groups, promote them, and capture events' results CNMCyber.com (access**) Pre‑practice
BookStack To learn with #EmployableU Concepts EmployableU.com (access**)
Wiki.js AINurtz.com (access**)
HuggingChat To augment learning with an artificial intelligence (AI) chat CNM Chat (access**)
Moodle To learn with CNMCyber Bootcamps CNM Cert (access**)
Jitsi To conduct videoconferences CNM Talk (access**) #Event-driven projects
AVideo To publish meeting videos CNM Tube (access**)
DeepSpeech or PaddlePaddle and Parakeet To produce meeting transcripts using artificial intelligence (AI) CNM Speech (access**)
OBS Studio To record meetings and produce videos Personal app on #VM***
Android Studio To create mobile apps #Technology projects
Nextcloud To produce office documents
WordPress To manage content of personal website
To manage content of #WiseNxt's website WiseNxt.com (access**)
Craiyon or Stable Diffusion XL To produce website designs using artificial intelligence (AI) CNM Design (access**)
Ghost (CMS) or Grav To manage content of public websites CNM Page (access**)
Apache OpenNLP To produce content's metadata using artificial intelligence (AI) CNM Lingua (access**)
Odoo To produce enterprise-alike records CNM Corp (access**) #Cloud operations
CanvasLMS or OpenEdX To produce learning materials CNM Onboard (access**)
Grafana or Zabbix or Nagios To monitor various apps of #Opplet CNM Monitor (access**)
TensorFlow or H2O.ai To visualize monitoring using artificial intelligence (AI) CNM Visual (access**)
GitLab To document and get first-hand documentation, source codes, and software files CNM Lab (access**)
Redmine or Taiga software To manage tech projects #Endeavor coordination
* During their #Apprenticeships, #The Students may also practice with ProxmoxVE, pfSence, Ceph; HAProxy, MariaDB or PostgeSQL; Jenkins or Kafka, OpenVPN, Terraform or Ansible, ZooKeeper; Cassandra, MuleESB, and Hadoop; as well as Julius, MXNet, or Wav2Letter.
** Here, "access" assumes end-user, power-user, and/or administrator-level permissions for the common-access technology that #The Students practice with.
*** Personal #VMs come with super-user permissions.
As of October of 2023, about 65% of sandbox #MVP is complete.

What we can commit to

For the purposes of this wikipage, What we can commit to refers to our potential commitments to #Our Partners. These commitments need to be negotiated. Our commitments to #The Students are non-negotiable; they are listed in the #Our commitments section.

Advisory committee

#We consider creating International Council for Vocational Orientation to build our #Expertise in youth work.

Fundraising assistance

#We can commit to participation in fundraising efforts that would target reasonable private, non-profit, and/or government donors.

Limited financing

Utilizing #The Pitcher's financing, #We can commit to covering some expenses. However, limitations of that financing require us to prioritize.
  1. First and foremost, #We can commit to work on #Opplet until 100% of #MVP is complete.
  2. Secondly, #We would favor covering costs of #Access to our cloud.
  3. Thirdly, #We would strongly consider funding #Staffers on the ground; #The Pitcher may either transfer funds to #Our Partners or treating them as Careerprise contractors.
  4. The rest of our budget can be used for endeavors related to, in alphabetical order, #Advisory committee, #Partner motivation, #Our offerings, and/or #Student motivation.

Tech support

#We can commit to creating and maintaining a technology help desk for troubleshooting and technical issue resolution.

What we look for

For the purpose of this wikipage, What we look for refers to what we need from #Our Partners. The Our needs section expresses our business needs.

#We are developing #The services we build, but the development goes slowly. The services are just partially available at the moment. To expedite the development, #We look for #Our Partners' help.

Access to our cloud

To access the technology, #The Students should have:
  1. Internet connection. Through #Limited financing, #We may initiate partial or 100% #Reimbursements if #The Students access via their own devices and/or payments to #Our Partners to cover their expenses.
  2. Computing devices such as smartphones or laptops. #We may provide #Fundraising assistance to raise resources for the devices, their storage, and transportation.
  3. If the service is offered onsite, location such as a class or another room. #We can further pitch potential donors to make this room look like a real-world workspace with, for instance, office cubicles.

Staffers on the ground

#The Students should have at least a couple of staffers on the ground to:
  • Act as #Our Mentors while helping #The Students to resolve learning challenges.
  • Manage interpersonal conflicts, which may possibly occur.
The target number of the staffers should depend on the number of students.

The Students

For the purposes of this wikipage, the Students refer to the customers who are enrolled in #Our offerings. The #What students we target section of this wikipage describes our target audiences.
While having a solid number of the Students, #We will move the development into the DevOps model. #We will present what #We have to the learners and ask them to practice with what #We have, while new pieces get available.

Youth work expertise

Our expertise in working with youth in Kenya is limited. Our awareness of its cultural, economic, and legal environments is limited as well. So, #We will surely welcome someone from senior management position or executive-level retiree to the #Advisory committee. Particularly, that committee would discuss what needs to be created, where to source its developers, how to deploy, etc. #We can also treat that help as consulting.

What students we target

#We welcome #The Students of any walks of life until they believe that #The services we build can help them. Based on #Engagement estimates, #We predict that those who would like to identify their occupational calling and professional specialties should be benefited the most.

Primary audience

#We believe that our primary target audience is high-school students of pre-graduation classes, which means one or two grades before the graduation class. According to #Engagement estimates, the biggest percentage of potential participants are identifying their vocations at that age of their lives.

Secondary audiences

#We also believe that our secondary target audiences are:
  • School students before the grade of the #Primary audience.
  • Either school students in the graduation classes or school graduates before the age of majority.
  • Any adult who is on the job market, plan to be there, and is eventually going to enter it.

What partners we look for

Key requirements

  1. Legal entity -- business, government, or not-for-profit organization or individuals at the age of majority
  2. Access to people who haven't identified their occupational objectives yet. If these people are minors and the partner is not their guardian, access to their legal guardians as well.

Partnership vs hiring

#Our Partners differ from Careerprise contractors. #The Pitcher offers monetary compensation for contractors' services, while hiring contractors. #Our Partners can be the contractors as well, but different agreements shall regulate these two roles.

What is to be negotiated

For the purposes of this wikipage, what is to be negotiated refers to those terms and conditions that #Our Partners and #The Pitcher are welcome to negotiate; legally-binding agreements should include the agreed terms and conditions.

Agreement text

For the purposes of this wikipage, an agreement text refers to contents of a legally-binding agreement between #The Pitcher and one of #Our Partners. Since every agreement is unique, those contents need to be created. If no better options are offered, a draft on the Educaship partner agreement‎ wikipage can be used to start with.
Among #What is to be negotiated items, agreement texts serve as capstone items. They shall include #Names of products, #Student motivation, and #Partner motivation.

Motivations

#We propose to negotiate both #Student motivation and #Partner motivation.

Products and names

Should the products listed in the #Our offerings section of this wikipage be alternated? Are the names the best? Together, we can possibly adjust the products and/or their names to a particular school, region, or anything else.

Student motivation

For the purposes of this wikipage, student motivation refers to motivation of #The Students beyond #Competency credentials and #Job offers.

Gifts

Such as smartphones, tablets, flashdrives, and laptops. What else? If nothing else, how? What procedures? Budgets?

Hospitality

Drinks, cookies, pizza, if reasonable and allowed. What else? If nothing else, how? What procedures? Budgets?

Reimbursements

For instance, the Internet access. What else? If nothing else, how? What procedures? Budgets?

Partner motivation

#We strongly believe that #The services we build, #The practice we envision, #The delivery we anticipate, and other #Student motivation would benefit #The Students, and, therefore, #Our Partners. Beyond those, #We would love to negotiate #Administrative fees, #Academic exchange, and #Mutual marketing.

Administrative fees

Some nominal fees for administrating. What else? If nothing else, how? What procedures? Budgets?

Academic exchange

If #Our Partners are going to visit Washington DC metro area, #We promise warm welcome and area tour! Although #The Pitcher doesn't consider funding trips and stays, #We can assure #Fundraising assistance in working on someone else's funding.

Marketing for partners

For the purposes of this wikipage, marketing for partners refers to our possible efforts to market services of #Our Partners. The ideas to start with are as follows:

Compliance

#We would like to make sure that #The services we build and #The practice we envision comply with existing laws.

Employment Act

Kenya's Employment Act regulates employment in that country. Although this law doesn't define employment directly, it may imply that employment in Kenya is a contract, either written or oral, in which one party, an employer, orders another party, an employee, who is an individual, to render specified services, for which the law requires the employer to compensate that individual with wages and salaries.
The law doesn't distinguish between employment, experiential learning, and volunteering. Taking that law literally, one may suggest that schools shouldn't assign any work to students below 13 years of age, as well as pay their students for, let say, homework when they are above 13 years of age. Both theoretical suggestions are nonsense only if ones assume that every work not necessarily requires wages and salaries.
Furthermore, the law doesn't seem to distinguish between a paid employee and independent contractor; for instance, this difference is clarified in the United States in details -- https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/independent-contractor-self-employed-or-employee
#We don't plan to hire any participant as an employee. Even if #We wanted so, #We are a group of volunteers, not a legal entity. Thus, #We cannot be an employer by definition.
As a group of volunteers, #We are affiliated with #The Pitcher, which is incorporated in Michigan, United States, so Kenya's law may not apply. Unlike our experience with Kenyan laws, our expertise with the U.S. laws is solid. What is even more, #The Students would be practicing on CNM Lab Farm of #Opplet; this farm is physically located in Germany.
To sum up, #We are not going to employ #The Students as the labor law implies. To avoid any conflicts in complying with the Employment Act, #We would like to reach out to the Kenyan National Employment Authority.

Industrial Training Act

Kenya's Industrial Training Act regulates "industrial training", which it defines as "training for a specified industry". In the meanwhile, our training is not related to any specific industry.
Indeed, #The services we build have their limits. Simply put, #We don't plan to build anything beyond introductory work experience, career options, and guided entrances, normally, as apprentices, to the labour market.
For instance, #CNMCyber Bootcamps cover JavaScript, but do so barely to the extend for a participant to decide whether he or she likes to be a JavaScript developer or administrator. However, #We cannot provide and don't plan to provide #The Students with advanced training in that framework since #We deal with the #Learning sequence we use only.
If a graduate from #WiseNxt Academy would like to go to the upper stages of #The Pipeline, #VIT, which runs those stages, would connect him or her with advanced training providers. Once again, this matching and, consequently, professional training are beyond of our work's scope. #We develop and administer #CNMCyber and #Our offerings only.
To sum up, #We are not going to provide #The Students with "industrial training" as the law defines. To avoid any conflicts in complying with the Industrial Training Act, #We would like to reach out to the Kenyan National Industrial Training Authority.

Used terms

On this very wikipage, a few abbreviations and terms are commonly used.

AINurtz

AINurtz is #The Pitcher's #Product line of commercial market exchangeables within the larger #WiseNxt brand, which normally is deployed to emphasize non-commercial products. The name, #AINurtz, is picked to suggest that is features both AI orientation and our nurturing approach to deliver AI skills.
The AINurtz line includes #AINurtz Career Day and AINurtz.com, which is the signature website of this #Product line.

Brand

On this wikipage, a brand refers to a name that distinguishes services of #The Pitcher or #VIT from each other, as well as from those of other service providers. The brands are compared in the table below.
Brand names Purpose Owner
#Careerprise One-stop shop for career services (mostly, paid) #VIT
#CITPMA Entry-level credential in information technology and project management
#CNMCyber Volunteers and career services for them #The Pitcher
#Educaship Collaboration to combine #Apprenticeships and education
#EmployableU Presentations of general career concepts
#WiseNxt School-to-work transition service
#AINurtz Personalized, but not one-on-one, help in navigation of career journeys
#KSACerts Credentials based on evaluations of specific #KSAs #VIT
#Opplet Technology behind #CNMCyber #The Pitcher
#WorldOpp Full-scope placement into entrepreneurship and/or employment

Careerprise

Careerprise is #VIT's one-stop shop for those who are on job markets, going to be there, or would like to be employed. The learners who are enrolled in Careerprise programs are supposed to pay for the services they receive and be paid for the services they render.
Careerprise's official website is Careerprise.com. Unlike #Our offerings, Careerprise is:
  • Not a single product. It is a store, in which buyers can choose what they need.
  • Not delivered by us; Careerprise is delivered by #VIT. The goal of Careerprise is not only providing its customers with career services, but also generating business revenue in order to run #VIT's operations. #VIT employs its staffers and use no volunteers. #VIT also deploys its own technology.
Nevertheless, #We collaborate with Careerprise programs because of the benefits to #The Students. They are welcome to acquire the services they need at no cost via our own products and, when they are ready to produce valuable services and be paid, switch to Careerprise. #The Students, as well as Careerprise participants, are welcome to go back and forth between #Our offerings and Careerprise as many times as they choose so.

CITPMA

CITPMA stands for Certified IT Project Management Associate, which is the trade certificate that #VIT issues to certify #KSAs of its holders in information technology and/or project management. CITPMA belongs to #KSACerts and is one of the #Certificates that #The Students earn when they get graduated from #WiseNxt Academy.

CNMCyber

The term, CNMCyber, initially referred to any digital extension of Career Network Ministry (CNM), where #We originally came from. As a group of volunteers, CNM organized physical meetings in Northern Virginia to support individuals during career transitions. Now, CNMCyber may refer to us, as well as to a few other phenomena such as:
Not only CNMCyber is identified with multiple things. Similarly, a name of a particular school may refer to its education, teachers, students, as well as place for study and work. With regards to its brand name, the goal of CNMCyber is to attract potential volunteers. #We market CNMCyber in order to recruit more volunteers to join us.

Educaship

Educaship is #The Pitcher's #Product line of market exchangeables that resulted from strategic partnerships with various educational institutions and employers. The educa- beginning of the term stands for education, while the -ship ending does so for #Apprenticeships. The subset of #Educaship products that are geared towards school students is marketed separately as #WiseNxt.
In addition to the partnerships, the #Educaship line includes #Educaship Fellowship and signature website, Educaship.com.

EmployableU

EmployableU, which is pronounced as employable you, is #The Pitcher's #Product line of market exchangeables designed to introduce career management concepts to the general public. The line includes #EmployableU Camp, #EmployableU Concepts, and its signature website, EmployableU.com.

KenyaX

KenyaX is the #Brand of #WiseNxt products in Kenya.

KSACerts

KSACerts are the trade certificates that #VIT develops, administers, and markets to certify #KSAs of their holders. Four #Certificates are available to #The Students:
  1. KSA Certified Event Organizer granted after successful completion of #Event-driven projects.
  2. KSA Certified Website Developer to be earned in #Technology projects.
  3. KSA Certified Digital Operator to be earned in #Cloud operations.
  4. #CITPMA to be earned in #Endeavor coordination.
#VIT issues those certificates to #The Students based on the data that #We provide, as well as maintains the records. KSACerts' official website is KSACerts.com.

KSAs

On this wikipage, KSAs refer to knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA), which is a combination of the competencies that are required for particular professions, occupations, position, or a group of those. To certify KSAs, #VIT develops, administers, and markets #KSACerts.

MVP

On this wikipage, MVP refers to minimum viable product, which is service or technology at the state of functionality, but not usability yet.

Occupation

On this wikipage, an occupation refers to any profession and/or an employment position before it becomes one's #Target occupation.

Opplet Web

Opplet Web is the network of websites within #Opplet.

Opplet.net

Opplet.net is the user management system of #Opplet.

Our Mentors

For the purposes of this wikipage, Our Mentors refer to both #Staffers on the ground and those members of our team who remotely act as mentors to #The Students. Our Mentors' contributions are instrumental in providing #The Students with #Recommendations and #Student support. The Mentors may or may not be helpful in #Job-related networking.

Our Partners

For the purposes of this wikipage, Our Partners refer to legal entities that collaborate on delivering #The practice we envision and/or #The services we build, as well as marketing of #Our offerings.
Particularly, #We are looking for:
  1. Donors, government organizations, and workforce investors, so #The Students can be able to finance their vocational education and job search. #We strive to assist everyone to solve financial issues even when they have absolutely no monetary resources in their households available.
  2. Education and job training providers, so #The Students can have a choice of opportunities to build their #KSAs.
  3. Employers, so #The Students can land their #Apprenticeships and meaningful, high-quality employment.
The #What partners we look for section of this wikipage contains our requirements to Our Partners. Two parties, #The Pitcher and one of Our Partners, may execute their partnership agreement based on the #Agreement text.

Product line

On this wikipage, a product line refers to a group of market exchangeables that share both (1) a #Brand and (2) a common, managed set of features that satisfy specific needs of a selected market or mission. #We deal with several lines such as #CNMCyber, #EmployableU, #AINurtz, and #WorldOpp.

Professional groups

On this wikipage, Professional groups refer to CNMCyber communities such as CNM WordPress Users, CNM Jitsi Users, CNM HumHub Users, CNM Moodle Users, etc.

Target occupation

On this wikipage, a target occupation or a group of them is the professional destination that any of #The Students shall identify in order to be graduated from #WiseNxt Academy. In plain English, the graduate's target occupation is the job that the graduate from #WiseNxt Academy is encouraged to seek with or without upper stages of #The Pipeline. Target occupations may or may not be an #Occupation that #The Students touch during their practice.

The Pipeline

For the purposes of this wikipage, the Pipeline refers to WorldOpp Pipeline. The Pipeline is the five-stage process that a not-job-ready individual goes through in order to land his or her job using #WorldOpp.
The Pipeline's stages are briefly described in the #Learning sequence we use section of this wikipage:
  • As a part of #The Pitcher, #We develop, administer, and market the first three stages of the Pipeline; they are offered to the general public free-of-charge.
  • #VIT runs the last two stages of the Pipeline; #We can be enrolled in those stages free-of-charge as well.

The Pitcher

For the purposes of this wikipage, the Pitcher refers to The Economic Group, which is a non-profit corporation that is incorporated in Michigan, United States. #The Pitcher provides the general public with its services free-of-charge.
The Pitcher's #Brand is behind #Our offerings. #CNMCyber, #EmployableU, #AINurtz, #Opplet, #Opplet.net, and #WorldOpp are also the Pitcher's brand names.
The Pitcher's official website is TheEconomicGroup.com. As a group of volunteers, #We are a part of the Pitcher.

VIT

On this wikipage, VIT refers to Virginia Institute of Technology LLC, which is a limited liability company, which headquarters are located in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S.A. #We don't represent VIT, but mention it because of the benefits it brings to #The Students. The primary examples are:
  1. VIT runs two upper stages of #The Pipeline, including #Apprenticeships.
  2. Based of the data that #We provide, VIT issues #KSACerts #Certificates to #The Students.
The department of business development of VIT is responsible for #Careerprise, #CITPMA, #KSACerts, and #The Pipeline products. Its official website is VIT4all.com.

VM

On this wikipage, a VM refers to a virtual machine, which each of #The Students shall personally receive for their practice as a part of #Workplace sandboxes.
The VMs run on Linux-alike Ubuntu operating system (OS). Physically located in a data center in Germany, CNM Lab Farm hosts those machines.
VMs come with all the personal software that #The Students may need in order to be successful. The software include OBS Studio and Educaship WordPress instances with which #The Students may experiment personally, without their peer interruptions.
Finally, those VMs emulate corporate devices. Similarly to corporate "employees", #The Students are encouraged to punch in when they arrive for #The practice we envision and to punch out when they finish.

We

For the purposes of this wikipage, We, we, and us refer to CNMCyber Team, which is a group of volunteers who are affiliated with #The Pitcher to develop, administer, and market #CNMCyber. Particularly, We develop #The services we build, administer #The practice we envision, and market #Our offerings.
In addition to #The Pitcher's services, members of our team can take advantage of #VIT's services such as #Educaship Fellowship and #Careerprise Employment at no cost to the volunteers.

WiseNxt

#WiseNxt is #The Pitcher's #Product line of market exchangeables designed to deliver #Educaship products to school students.#WiseNxt Academy is the flagship product of this line; the line also includes WiseNxt.com, which is the signature website of #WiseNxt.
The original name of #WiseNxt was iDosvid, pronounced "ee DOS-veed", which means "and experience" in Ukrainian. The idea behind the name was that, upon their graduation from #WiseNxt, #The Students shall receive #Career-planning help, #Entry-level credentialing, #Job-related networking, #Vocational orientation, and #Work experience.
Indeed, #WiseNxt was originally expected to be launched in Ukraine; however, because of the war there, the launch was postponed. Still, #WiseNxt is going to be marketed as iDosvid in Ukraine. In Kenya, it is going to emerge as #KenyaX. The subset of commercial products within #WiseNxt is going to be marketed separately under the #AINurtz name.

WorldOpp

WorldOpp is the economic development programme that #The Pitcher develops, administers, and markets. This programme is built around #The Pipeline, which is the programme's backbone.
#WorldOpp is #The Pitcher's #Product line of market exchangeables designed to advance workforce development, employment, and entrepreneurship support especially in the under-served communities worldwide. Besides the programme, the line includes #WorldOpp Orientation and WorldOpp.com, which is the WorldOpp signature website.
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