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[[Educaship pitch]] is a [[pitch]] that [[The Economic Group]] (hereinafter, [[#The Pitcher]]) utilizes in order to attract educational partners (hereinafter, [[#Our Partners]]) in Kenya into development, administering, and marketing of smooth school-to-work transitions under [[#The Pitcher]]'s [[#Educaship]] program.
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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]].
 
[[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]].
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==In a nutshell==
 
==In a nutshell==
This section covers (a) [[#30-second pitch]], (b) [[#Bridging the gaps]], which are our top-level objectives, (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.
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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 business needs]], and (h) [[#Our story]] or where [[#We]] are coming from and where [[#We]] are heading to.
  
 
===30-second pitch===
 
===30-second pitch===
: We at [[#CNMCyber]] welcome high schools as partners to smooth school-to-work transitions for their students. The students are to explore various occupations and career options, find the best match, earn competency credentials and introductory work experience. To the partnership, we bring initial training, workplace sandboxes, supporting technology, limited financing, and guidance in entering the labor market. We expect that our partners would contribute their expertise and student participation. If interested, educaship.com/schools shall get you started.
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: 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===
 
===Bridging the gaps===
: For the purposes of this wikipage, ''Bridging the gaps'' refers to our top-level objectives. To make [[#Our aspirations]] real and to do so  within [[#Our limitations]], [[#We]] develop [[#The services we build]]. [[#Our offerings]] are designed to:
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: For the purposes of this wikipage, ''Bridging the gaps'' refers to top-level objectives for [[#Our offerings]]. They shall strive to achieve:
 
:# '''Identify''' [[#The Students]]' professional aptitudes, inclinations, and interests, as well as their strengths, weaknesses, and special features.
 
:# '''Identify''' [[#The Students]]' professional aptitudes, inclinations, and interests, as well as their strengths, weaknesses, and special features.
 
:# '''Determine''' [[#Target occupation]]s 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.
 
:# '''Determine''' [[#Target occupation]]s 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.
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:# '''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.
 
:# '''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.
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: [[#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]].
  
 
===Our aspirations===
 
===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:
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: 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:
 
:* '''Connecting''' [[#The Students]] with those opportunities that exist on the market. [[#We]] understand that there are a number of services that can help with [[job interview]] preparation, [[job search]], [[market presence]], [[resume]] writing, [[social networking]], and [[workforce development]]. [[#We]] are not willing to recreate anything that already exists; vice versa, [[#We]] work with [[#Our Partners]] to bring their offerings to [[#The Students]].
 
:* '''Connecting''' [[#The Students]] with those opportunities that exist on the market. [[#We]] understand that there are a number of services that can help with [[job interview]] preparation, [[job search]], [[market presence]], [[resume]] writing, [[social networking]], and [[workforce development]]. [[#We]] are not willing to recreate anything that already exists; vice versa, [[#We]] work with [[#Our Partners]] to bring their offerings to [[#The Students]].
 
:* '''[[#Bridging the gaps]]''' between the employment needs of [[#The Students]] and current market offerings.
 
:* '''[[#Bridging the gaps]]''' between the employment needs of [[#The Students]] and current market offerings.
  
: 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.
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: 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===
 
===Our commitments===
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===Our DevOps===
 
===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 [[#iDosvid]] and other products, both ''Dev'' and ''Ops'' are run at the same time:
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: 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:
 
:# On the ''Dev'' side, [[#We]] produce, deliver, and deploy new products or modifications of existing products.
 
:# On the ''Dev'' side, [[#We]] produce, deliver, and deploy new products or modifications of existing products.
 
:# On the ''Ops'' side, [[#The Students]] use our [[work product]]s to allow us to identify areas of further production, delivery, and deployment.
 
:# On the ''Ops'' side, [[#The Students]] use our [[work product]]s to allow us to identify areas of further production, delivery, and deployment.
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===Our limitations===
 
===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. The market is saturated and there are many players on that field.
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: [[#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.
 
: 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.
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: 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.
 
: 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===
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===Our business needs===
 
: Based on [[#Our aspirations]] and [[#Our limitations]], our [[business need]]s are:
 
: Based on [[#Our aspirations]] and [[#Our limitations]], our [[business need]]s are:
 
:* Building [[#Our offerings]] to bridge those gaps between education and employment that [[#Our Partners]] don't bridge.
 
:* Building [[#Our offerings]] to bridge those gaps between education and employment that [[#Our Partners]] don't bridge.
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===Our story===
 
===Our story===
: For the purposes of this wikipage, ''Our story'' refers to descriptions of where [[#We]] are coming from and where [[#We]] are heading to.  
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: 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.  
  
: 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",<blockquote>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/)</blockquote>
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: 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]].
 
 
: Since 2012, [[#The Pitcher]] generally and [[#We]] particularly 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]].
 
 
 
: Our fullest-scope, most comprehensive offering is called [[#iDosvid]]. Its backbone is [[#The practice we envision]], in which [[#The Students]]:
 
:* Explore various [[#Occupation]]s to find the best match. Until [[#Target occupation]]s are identified, [[#The Students]] can organize meetings, develop IT, operate clouds, and coordinate cyber endeavors that would benefit the public good. At very least, this job-alike practice may suggest professional aspirations of [[#The Students]]. [[#We]] envision to use practice's results for their [[#Vocational orientation]].
 
:* Are placed in the drivers' seats of modern technology to start their professional experience and earn [[#Competency credentials]].
 
: A limited scope of [[#The practice we envision]] is also included in our other offering, [[#EmployableU Camp]].  
 
  
 
: 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.
 
: 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.
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: 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]].
 
: 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]], supporting technology, which is called [[#Opplet]], [[#Workplace sandboxes]], and [[#Limited financing]]. From [[#Our Partners]], [[#We]] expect their [[#Expertise in youth work]] and [[#The Students]] to participate.
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: 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==
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==The delivery we anticipate==
For the purposes of this wikipage, ''our offerings'' refer to three of our signature [[work product]]s that we market to those people who are not on the [[job market]], but are eventually going to enter it. ''Our offerings'' include (a) [[#iDosvid]], (b) [[#EmployableU Camp]], and (c) [[#In2job 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''.
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===After-school program===
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: As of now, [[#We]] anticipate that [[#WiseNxt Academy]] would be initially offered as extracurricular activities within some after-school program.
  
[[#We]] are working on each of those products. In addition to ''our offerings'', [[#We]] may promote other [[#Brand]]s 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]].
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===Career day===
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: 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.
  
===iDosvid===
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: 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.
: [[iDosvid]] is our flagship offering that delivers the fullest scope of [[#The services we build]] to [[#The Students]]. Among [[#Our offerings]], ''iDosvid'' is the most comprehensive [[market exchangeable]]. It represents the fullest scope of the first three stages of [[#The Pipeline]].
 
  
: Its name, ''i Dosvid'', is pronounced "ee DOS-veed", which means "and experience" in Ukrainian. The idea behind the name was that [[#The Students]] shall receive [[#Career-planning help]], [[#Entry-level credentialing]], [[#Job-related networking]], [[#Vocational orientation]], and [[#Work experience]] by the end of ''iDosvid''.
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: The product can be adapted to the target audience to include anything from nursing to AI architects.
  
: [[#We]] may suggest that some of [[#The Students]] would be employable as a result of ''iDosvid''. However, providing [[#The Students]] with full-time professional employment is not ''iDosvid's'' objective. The [[#Bridging the gaps]] section of this wikipage expresses the objectives of ''iDosvid'' best.
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===Global extensions===
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: 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).
  
: ''iDosvid'' was originally expected to be launched in Ukraine; however, because of the war there, the launch was postponed. ''iDosvid'' is designed to be friendly to high-school students, so it can be delivered as an [[#After-school program]]. [[#We]] expect that it would benefit our [[#Primary audience]] the most. ''iDosvid's'' signature [[website]] is [[iDosvid.com]].
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===Summer camp===
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: As of now, [[#We]] guess that some series between short [[#Career day]]s and extended [[#After-school program]]s can be delivered as [[#Summer camp]]s in partnership with schools or those not-for-profits that deal with school-age students.
  
===EmployableU Camp===
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==What students we target==
: [[EmployableU Camp]] is the shortened version of [[#iDosvid]] that is designed to be delivered as a [[#Summer camp]]. Both the ''Camp'' and [[#iDosvid]] 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 [[#iDosvid]].
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[[#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.
  
: 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 [[#In2job Career Day]].  
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===Primary audience===
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: [[#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.
  
: 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 occupation]]s, 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 [[#iDosvid]] while being enrolled in or after graduation from the ''Camp''.
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===Secondary audiences===
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: [[#We]] also believe that our secondary target audiences are:
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:* School students before the grade of the [[#Primary audience]].
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:* Either school students in the graduation classes or school graduates before the age of majority.
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:* Any adult who is on the [[job market]], plan to be there, and is eventually going to enter it.
  
===In2job Career Day===
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==What we already get==
: [[In2job Career Day]] is the shortened version of [[#EmployableU Camp]] and, therefore, the shortest product that [[#We]] are going to develop, administer, and market. The goal of the ''Career Day'' is making [[#The Students]] aware of career development and job search. The ''Career Day'' is designed to be delivered in one day as a [[#Career day]].
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===Course prototypes===
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: [[#We]] have developed several course prototypes:
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:# 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]].
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:# Later, [[#We]] translated the courses into Russian, introduced them in Ukraine, and advanced all three courses to [[#MVP]]s. In total, they served 2,000+ learners.
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:# Next, [[#We]] translated the courses into Ukrainian to use them in Ukrainian-language, original version of [[#WiseNxt]].
  
: As a [[market exchangeable]], the ''Career Day'' belongs to the [[#In2job]] [[#Product line]]. The goal of the ''Career Day'' is making sure that [[#The Students]] are aware of [[#Career-planning help]], [[#Entry-level credentialing]], [[#Job-related networking]], [[#Vocational orientation]], and [[#Work experience]], as well as their opportunities to get prepared and be successful on the [[job market]]. Those participants of the ''Career Day'' who are interested in fuller scopes can switch to either [[#EmployableU Camp]] or [[#iDosvid]] upon their graduation from the ''Career Day''.
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===Opplet===
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: [[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:
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:* System accounts that [[#Opplet.net]] assigns automatically.
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:* [[#Workplace sandboxes]] including [[#VM]]s 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.
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: As of October of 2023, about 67% of ''Opplet's'' [[#MVP]] is complete.
  
==The services we build==
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===Training experience===
For the purposes of this wikipage, ''the services we build'' refer to services behind [[#Our offerings]]. According to [[iDosvid pitch]], [[#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]].
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: [[#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.
  
[[#We]] use [[#DevOps]] to advance our services. Since they heavily rely on [[#Opplet]], [[#The Students]] shall also get [[#Tech support]].
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: 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]].
  
===Career-planning help===
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===Workplace sandboxes===
: For the purposes of this wikipage, ''career-planning help'' refers to services of providing [[#The Students]] with:
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: 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:
:# Knowledge about career development, recruitment, and job search.
 
:# 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:
 
:# Providing [[#The Students]] with opportunities to earn [[#Competency credential]]s.
 
:# Making sure that [[#VIT]] issues [[#Competency credential]]s to [[#The Students]] who have earned them, as well as that [[#VIT]] maintains credential records publicly, so potential [[employer]]s 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 network]]s.
 
 
 
===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.
 
:# [[CNMCyber event]]s
 
:# [[CNM Social]]
 
:# 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]] ([[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 [[#iDosvid]] will obtain [[work experience]], which many [[employer]]s value over other [[#Competency credentials]]. The graduates may choose to hide their records. Otherwise, the work experience records will be posted publicly, so potential [[employer]]s can verify them.
 
 
 
==Competency credentials==
 
[[#We]] believe that [[professional credential]]s 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 [[#In2job Career Day]]. Our service of [[#Entry-level credentialing]] is designed to give those who are enrolled into [[#EmployableU Camp]] and [[#iDosvid]] opportunities to earn them.
 
 
 
===Certificates===
 
: Graduation from any quarter of [[#CNMCyber Bootcamps]] grants each of [[#The Students]] one of [[#KSACerts]]. Graduates from [[#iDosvid]] will earn four certificates, including [[#CITPMA]]. Graduates from [[#EmployableU Camp]] may have up to three: [[KSA Certified Event Organizer]], [[KSA Certified Digital Developer]], and [[KSA Certified Digital Operator]].
 
 
 
: These [[#KSACerts]] are not tailored to any particular profession, but are useful through various [[Professional specialty|professional specialties]] and [[#Occupation]]s.
 
 
 
: In addition to [[#KSACerts]], graduates from [[#EmployableU Camp]] and [[#iDosvid]] gain valuable [[#Work experience]], which may qualify them partially or fully for pursuing other [[trade certificate]]s. For instance, one year of project management experience is required for the [[Project Management Professional]] ([[Project Management Professional|PMP]]) designation. Graduates from [[#iDosvid]] 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 [[#iDosvid]] 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 [[career]]s and [[career management]], as well as [[employment]], [[employability]], [[self-employment]], [[job market]]s, [[labor law]]s, [[occupation]]s, [[professional credential]]s, [[recruitment]], [[work characteristic]]s, [[work arrangement]]s, 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 four quarters, each of which represents formal curriculum and the practice that is designed to reinforce that curriculum.
 
 
:{|class="wikitable" width=100% style="text-align:center;"
 
:{|class="wikitable" width=100% style="text-align:center;"
!Quarter #
+
|Software*
|Quarter title
+
!Activities!!Delivered as||Introduced in
!Activity #!!Learning activity description!!Quarter-graduating [[#Certificates]]
 
|-
 
|rowspan="4"|1
 
!rowspan="4"|Organization of professional meetings
 
|1a||Being helped via [[#Our Welcome]]||rowspan="4"|[[KSA Certified Event Organizer]]
 
|-
 
|1b||Taking [[Event Organizer Bootcamp]] lectures
 
|-
 
|1c||Being helped via [[#Our Onboarding]]
 
|-
 
|1d||Practicing with [[#Event-driven projects]] as [[CNM Event Organizer]]s
 
 
|-
 
|-
|rowspan="2"|2
+
![[HumHub]]
!rowspan="2"|Development of [[#CNMCyber]]
+
|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**)||rowspan="5"|Pre&#8209;practice
|2a||Taking [[Website Developer Bootcamp]] lectures||rowspan="2"|[[KSA Certified Digital Developer]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
|2b||Practicing with [[#Technology projects]] as [[CNM Website Developer]]s
+
![[BookStack]]
 +
|rowspan="2"|To learn with [[#EmployableU Concepts]]||[[EmployableU.com]] (access**)
 
|-
 
|-
|rowspan="2"|3
+
![[Wiki.js]]
!rowspan="2"|Operations with [[#Opplet]]
+
|[[AINurtz.com]] (access**)
|3a||Taking [[Cloud Operator Bootcamp]] lectures||rowspan="2"|[[KSA Certified Digital Operator]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
|3b||Practicing with [[#Cloud operations]] as [[CNM Cloud Operator]]s
+
![[HuggingChat]]
 +
|To augment learning with an [[artificial intelligence]] ([[artificial intelligence|AI]]) chat||[[CNM Chat]] (access**)
 
|-
 
|-
|rowspan="2"|4
+
![[Moodle]]
!rowspan="2"|Coordination of [[#CNMCyber]]
+
|To learn with [[CNMCyber Bootcamps]]||[[CNM Cert]] (access**)
|4a||Taking [[Cyber Coordinator Bootcamp]] lectures||rowspan="2"|[[CITPMA|Certified IT Project Management Associate]] ([[CITPMA]])
 
|-
 
|4b||Practicing with [[#Endeavor coordination]] as [[CNMCyber Coordinator]]s; 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 product]]s. 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 areas]] 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]] particularly are to introduce [[#The Students]] to the workplace and to help them to identify their [[#Target occupation]]s. Within [[#The Pipeline]], occupational education and training occur at the [[#Educaship Fellowship]] stage.
 
 
 
: So, just few parts of [[#The practice we envision]] present single [[#Occupation]]s. 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 [[#Occupation]]s 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 the 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 can be sold 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 particular 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 product]]s, [[#Our Welcome]] and [[#Our Onboarding]] shall provide [[#The Students]] during those transitions with opportunities to have their questions answered and possible issues resolved.
 
 
 
===Our Onboarding===
 
: For the purposes of this wikipage, ''Our Onboarding'' refers to [[CNMCyber Onboarding]], which is a bundle of our services designed to help [[#The Students]] start [[#The practice we envision]]. These services include:<ol type="a"><li>Periodic [[videoconference]]s for live interactions. Videoconference hosts demonstrate their sample work on available projects.</li><li>CNMCyber Onboarding videos and [[CNMCyber.com Onboarding]] [[webpage]] with comment sections.</li><li>[[CNMCyber Onboarding Space]], which is a [[CNMCyber community]]. The demonstrations are to be recorded and shared as videos through this community.</li></ol>
 
: Basically, ''Our Onboarding'' shall help those of [[#The Students]] to whom [[#Our Welcome]] is no longer helpful.
 
 
 
===Our Welcome===
 
: For the purposes of this wikipage, ''Our Welcome'' refers to [[CNMCyber Welcome]], which is a bundle of our services designed to help [[#The Students]] get to [[#Our Onboarding]]. These services include:<ol type="a"><li>Periodic [[videoconference]]s for live interactions.</li><li>[[CNMCyber Welcome Video]] and [[CNMCyber.com Welcome]] [[webpage]] with comment sections.</li><li>[[CNMCyber Welcome Space]], which is a [[CNMCyber community]].</li></ol>
 
: Basically, ''Our 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 [[#Our Onboarding]] where [[#The Students]] shall be served afterwards.
 
 
 
==Tentative practice areas==
 
While acting in [[#The practice we envision]], [[#The Students]] play four consecutive roles.
 
 
 
===Event-driven projects===
 
: As [[CNM Event Organizer]]s, [[#The Students]] are to organize business meetings of [[#Professional groups]], as well as interviews with [[#Our Mentors]] and other [[CNMCyber product]]s' [[stakeholder]]s 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:
 
:# '''AV production'''. While capturing audio and video during meetings and interviews, as well as producing media, [[#The Students]] may touch [[#Occupation]]s 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]].
 
:# '''[[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]].
 
:# '''Document production'''. While producing documents before, during, and after events, [[#The Students]] may touch [[#Occupation]]s such as [[Desktop Publishers]], [[Information and Record Clerks]], [[News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists]], as well as [[Technical Writers]].
 
:# '''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]].
 
:# '''[[Marketing]]'''. While introducing upcoming events and their records, as well as positioning them on the market, [[#The Students]] may touch [[#Occupation]]s 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]].
 
:# '''Product design'''. While collecting stakeholders requirements and designing events, [[#The Students]] may touch [[#Occupation]]s 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) [[CNM Social]]'s access to schedule meetings, (b) [[CNM Talk]]'s access to conduct conferences, (c) personal [[#VM]]s with installed [[OBS Studio]]s to record meetings and produce videos, (d) [[CNM Tube]] access to post meeting videos, as well as (e) [[CNM Wiki]] access to capture events' results.
 
 
 
===Technology projects===
 
: As [[CNM Website Developer]]s, [[#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:
 
:# '''Interactions design'''. While designing website contents, interfaces, and structures, [[#The Students]] may touch [[#Occupation]]s 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]].
 
:# '''Content creation'''. While creating website contents, including the graphics, multimedia, and texts, [[#The Students]] may touch [[#Occupation]]s 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]].
 
:# '''Technology development'''. While developing technologies behind the website, [[#The Students]] may touch [[#Occupation]]s 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]].
 
:# '''Web-search marketing'''. While working on [[search engine optimization]] ([[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. To their [[#Workplace sandboxes]], [[#The Students]] will add access to personal instances of [[CNM WordPress]].
 
 
 
===Cloud operations===
 
: As [[CNM Cloud Operator]]s, [[#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:
 
:# '''Data management'''. While collecting, organizing, and analyzing operational data, [[#The Students]] shall touch [[#Occupation]]s 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]].
 
:# '''Document management'''. While collecting, organizing, and analyzing operational data, [[#The Students]] shall touch [[#Occupation]]s such as [[Document Management Specialists]], [[Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks]], as well as [[Regulatory Affairs Specialists]].
 
:# '''Operations management'''. While managing existing systems' operations of [[#Opplet]], [[#The Students]] shall touch [[#Occupation]]s such as [[Business Operations Specialists]], [[Functional Managers]], [[General and Operations Managers]], as well as [[Office Clerks]]
 
:# '''Software administration'''. While administering existing applications and their systems of [[#Opplet]], [[#The Students]] may touch [[#Occupation]]s such as [[Computer Network Support Specialists]], [[Cybersecurity Professionals]], [[Database Administrators]], [[Network and Computer Systems Administrators]], [[Technology Consultants]], as well as [[Web Administrators]].
 
:# '''Testing and analysis'''. While testing existing applications and their systems of [[#Opplet]], [[#The Students]] may touch [[#Occupation]]s 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]].
 
 
 
===Endeavor coordination===
 
: As [[CNMCyber Coordinator]]s, [[#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:
 
:# '''Contracts administration'''. While administering contracts, [[#The Students]] may touch [[#Occupation]]s such as [[Business Buyers]], [[Contracts Administrators]], [[File Clerks]], [[Interviewers]], [[Partner Liaisons]], [[Procurement Managers]], as well as [[Receptionists and Information Clerks]].
 
:# '''Endeavors administration'''. While observing enterprise administration and contractors' work, [[#The Students]] may touch [[#Occupation]]s 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]].
 
:# '''Human resources'''. While recruiting new contractors and detaining existing ones, [[#The Students]] may touch [[#Occupation]]s 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]].
 
:# '''Workforce development'''.  While developing the workforce, [[#The Students]] may touch [[#Occupation]]s 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 Coordinator]]s 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 Coordinator]]s 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]].
 
 
 
===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.
 
:{|class="wikitable" width=100% style="text-align:center;"
 
![[#What students we target]]*!![[#In2job Career Day]]!![[#EmployableU Camp]]**!![[#iDosvid]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
|School-age students, age 12-15||70%||35-50%||30%
+
![[Jitsi]]
 +
|To conduct [[videoconference]]s||[[CNM Talk]] (access**)||rowspan="4"|[[#Event-driven projects]]
 
|-
 
|-
|School students, pre-graduation class||90%||55-70%||50%
+
![[AVideo]]
 +
|To publish meeting videos||[[CNM Tube]] (access**)
 
|-
 
|-
|School students, graduation class||65%||30-45%||25%
+
![[DeepSpeech]] or [[PaddlePaddle]] and [[Parakeet]]
 +
|To produce meeting transcripts using [[artificial intelligence]] ([[artificial intelligence|AI]])||[[CNM Speech]] (access**)
 
|-
 
|-
|College students||55%||15-30%||5%
+
![[OBS Studio]]
 +
|To record meetings and produce videos||rowspan="4"|Personal app on [[#VM]]***
 
|-
 
|-
|Young professionals, entry-level workforce||45%||10-25%||2%
+
![[Android Studio]]
 +
|To create mobile apps||rowspan="7"|[[#Technology projects]]
 
|-
 
|-
|Mid-career workforce||40%||15-30%||3%
+
![[Nextcloud]]
 +
|To produce office documents
 
|-
 
|-
|Upper-career workforce, second career launchers||50%||20-35%||8%
+
!rowspan="2"|[[WordPress]]
 +
|To manage content of personal [[website]]
 
|-
 
|-
|Seasoned seniors||30%||5-20%||1%
+
|To manage content of [[#WiseNxt]]'s [[website]]||[[WiseNxt.com]] (access**)
|}
 
 
 
:{|class="noborder" width=100%
 
|style="vertical-align:top;"|'''*'''||The numbers that the table presents cannot be universal. The college student and young professional rates include a significant portion of numbers in pre-war Ukraine. The school student and adult estimates are largely based on our experience in the [[United States]].
 
 
|-
 
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;"|'''**'''||Flexibility of [[#EmployableU Camp]]'s scope causes flexibility of its engagement estimates.
+
![[Craiyon]] or [[Stable Diffusion XL]]
|}
+
|To produce website designs using [[artificial intelligence]] ([[artificial intelligence|AI]])||[[CNM Design]] (access**)
 
 
===Services vs offers===
 
: All the products behind [[#Our offerings]] offer some combination of [[#The services we build]].
 
:{|class="wikitable" width=100% style="text-align:center;"
 
|[[#The services we build]]
 
![[#In2job Career Day]]!![[#EmployableU Camp]]!![[#iDosvid]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
![[#Career-planning help]]
+
![[Ghost (CMS)]] or [[Grav]]
|Not offered||Offered partially||Offered fully
+
|To manage content of public [[website]]s||[[CNM Page]] (access**)
 
|-
 
|-
![[#Entry-level credentialing]]
+
![[Apache OpenNLP]]
|Not offered||Offered partially, no [[#CITPMA]] is available||Offered fully
+
|To produce content's metadata using [[artificial intelligence]] ([[artificial intelligence|AI]])||[[CNM Lingua]] (access**)
 
|-
 
|-
![[#Job-related networking]]
+
![[Odoo]]
|Slightly touched||Offered partially||Offered fully
+
|To produce enterprise-alike records||[[CNM Corp]] (access**)||rowspan="4"|[[#Cloud operations]]
 
|-
 
|-
![[#Minimal training]]
+
![[CanvasLMS]] or [[OpenEdX]]
|Slightly touched||Offered partially||Offered fully
+
|To produce learning materials||[[CNM Onboard]] (access**)
 
|-
 
|-
![[#Privacy]]
+
![[Grafana]] or [[Zabbix]] or [[Nagios]]
|Offered fully||Offered fully||Offered fully
+
|To monitor various apps of [[#Opplet]]||[[CNM Monitor]] (access**)
 
|-
 
|-
![[#Student support]]
+
![[TensorFlow]] or [[H2O.ai]]
|Offered minimally||Offered partially||Offered fully
+
|To visualize monitoring using [[artificial intelligence]] ([[artificial intelligence|AI]])||[[CNM Visual]] (access**)
 
|-
 
|-
![[#Vocational orientation]]
+
![[GitLab]]
|Offered minimally||Offered partially||Offered fully
+
|To document and get first-hand documentation, [[source code]]s, and software files||rowspan="2"|[[CNM Lab]] (access**)
 
|-
 
|-
![[#Work experience]]
+
![[Redmine]] or [[Taiga software]]
|Not offered||Offered partially||Offered fully
+
|To manage tech projects||[[#Endeavor coordination]]
 
|}
 
|}
  
===Within the sequence===
+
:{|class="noborder" width=100%
: All the products behind [[#Our offerings]] are built on [[#Learning sequence we use]].
+
|style="vertical-align:top;"|'''*'''||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]].
:{|class="wikitable" width=100% style="text-align:center;"
 
|[[#Learning sequence we use]]
 
![[#In2job Career Day]]!![[#EmployableU Camp]]!![[#iDosvid]]*
 
 
|-
 
|-
![[#WorldOpp Orientation]]
+
|style="vertical-align:top;"|'''**'''||Here, "access" assumes [[end-user]], [[power-user]], and/or [[administrator-level]] permissions for the common-access technology that [[#The Students]] practice with.
|Slightly touched||Covered fully||Covered fully
 
 
|-
 
|-
![[#EmployableU Concepts]]
+
|style="vertical-align:top;"|'''***'''||Personal [[#VM]]s come with [[super-user]] permissions.
|Covered partially||Covered fully||Covered fully
 
|-
 
![[#CNMCyber Bootcamps]]
 
|Slightly touched||Covered partially||Covered fully
 
|}
 
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|style="vertical-align:top;"|'''*'''||Although none of [[#Our offerings]] covers [[#Educaship Fellowship]], [[#iDosvid]] fully prepares for this next stage of [[#The Pipeline]].
 
 
|}
 
|}
  
==Job offers==
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: As of October of 2023, about 65% of sandbox [[#MVP]] is complete.
For the purposes of this wikipage, ''job offers'' refer to the paid work that [[#VIT]] or other [[employer]]s 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 [[employer]]s to accommodate the ''apprenticeships''. Those [[#Students]] who choose to become [[system administrator]]s, 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 contractor]]s. 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 contractor]]s 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 [[#iDosvid]] would be initially offered as extracurricular activities within some after-school program.
 
 
 
===Career day===
 
: As of now, [[#We]] believe that [[#In2job 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. 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/
 
 
 
===Global extensions===
 
: As of now, [[#We]] would like to consider global extensions when the schools in which [[#iDosvid]] is initially launched can collaborate; for instance, members of one team can participate from different countries such as Ukraine (where [[#iDosvid]] was supposed to be introduced originally), Kenya (where [[#iDosvid]] should be eventually introduced), and USA (where an "adult" version of [[#iDosvid]] called [[#CNMCyber]] was developed at first place).
 
 
 
===Summer camp===
 
: As of now, [[#We]] guess that some series between [[#In2job Career Camp]] and [[#iDosvid]] can be delivered as a summer camp 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:
 
:# 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]].
 
:# Later, [[#We]] translated the courses into Russian, introduced them in Ukraine, and advanced all three courses to [[#MVP]]s. In total, they served 2,000+ learners.
 
:# Next, [[#We]] translated the courses into Ukrainian to use them in Ukrainian-language, original version of [[#iDosvid]].
 
 
 
===Opplet===
 
: [[Opplet]] is our cloud-based technology behind [[#CNMCyber]]. [[Opplet.com]] is its official [[website]] and [[#Opplet.net]] is its [[user management system]]. Because of ''Opplet'', [[#The Students]] get:
 
:* System accounts that are assigned automatically.
 
:* End-user, power-user, and/or administrator-level permissions for the common-access technology that they practice with.
 
:* [[#VM]]s with super-user permissions.
 
: 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]] will receive:
 
:* His or her personal [[#VM]]. Those ''VMs'' will emulate corporate devices; they shall be used in [[#The practice we envision]].
 
:* His or her human resource module account in [[CNM Corp]]. To simulate corporate environment, [[#The Students]] will punch in when they arrive and punch out when they leave.
 
 
 
: As of October of 2023, about 80% of sandbox [[#MVP]] is complete.
 
  
 
==What we can commit to==
 
==What we can commit to==
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: [[#We]] can commit to creating and maintaining a technology help desk for troubleshooting and technical issue resolution.
 
: [[#We]] can commit to creating and maintaining a technology help desk for troubleshooting and technical issue resolution.
  
==What we look for==
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==What we need from partners==
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 need]]s.
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For the purpose of this wikipage, ''What we need from partners'' refers to what we need from [[#Our Partners]]. The [[#Our business needs]] section expresses our [[business need]]s.
  
 
[[#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.
 
[[#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.
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===Youth work expertise===
 
===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.
 
: 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 one grade before the graduation class. At that age, the biggest percentage of potential participants are identifying their vocations.
 
 
===Secondary audiences===
 
: [[#We]] also believe that our secondary target audiences are:
 
:* School students before the grade of the [[#Primary audience]], especially, while offering [[#In2job Career Camp]].
 
:* Either school students in the graduation classes or school graduates before the age of majority, while offering [[#iDosvid]] specifically.
 
:* Any adult who is on the job market, plan to be there, and is going to be there, while offering [[#CNMCyber]] specifically.
 
  
 
==What partners we look for==
 
==What partners we look for==
 
===Key requirements===
 
===Key requirements===
:# Legal entity -- business, government, or not-for-profit
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:# [[Legal entity]] -- business, government, or not-for-profit organization or individuals at the age of majority
:# Access to people who haven't identified their occupational objectives yet. If these people are minors, access to their legal guardians as well.
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:# 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===
 
===Partnership vs hiring===
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:* Pitching partner information during events, on the websites, etc.
 
:* Pitching partner information during events, on the websites, etc.
 
:* Organizing tech summits such as https://www.meetup.com/techdc/photos/15509362/.
 
:* Organizing tech summits such as https://www.meetup.com/techdc/photos/15509362/.
:* If we already collaborate on one or two of [[#Our offerings]] in one place, offering the rest in other places. For instance, we offer [[#iDosvid]] in one school. Our mutual offering of [[#In2job Career Day]] in other schools and/or other regions may be beneficial to our partner school.
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:* If we already collaborate on one or two of [[#Our offerings]] in one place, offering the rest in other places. For instance, we offer [[#WiseNxt]] in one school. Our mutual offering of [[#AINurtz Career Day]] in other schools and/or other regions may be beneficial to our partner school.
  
==Compliance==
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==Used terms==
[[#We]] would like to make sure that [[#The services we build]] and [[#The practice we envision]] comply with existing laws.
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On this very wikipage, a few abbreviations and terms are commonly used.
 
 
===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 [[#iDosvid]] 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]], [[#iDosvid]], and [[#In2job Career Camp]] 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.
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===AINurtz===
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: [[AINurtz]] is [[#The Pitcher]]'s [[#Product line]] of commercial [[market exchangeable]]s 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.
  
==Used terms==
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: The ''AINurtz'' line includes [[#AINurtz Career Day]] and [[AINurtz.com]], which is the signature [[website]] of this [[#Product line]].
On this very wikipage, a few abbreviations and terms are commonly used.
 
  
 
===Brand===
 
===Brand===
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|Presentations of general career concepts
 
|Presentations of general career concepts
 
|-
 
|-
![[#iDosvid]]
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![[#WiseNxt]]
 
|School-to-work transition service
 
|School-to-work transition service
 
|-
 
|-
![[#In2job]]
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![[#AINurtz]]
 
|Personalized, but not one-on-one, help in navigation of career journeys
 
|Personalized, but not one-on-one, help in navigation of career journeys
 
|-
 
|-
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: ''Careerprise's'' official website is [[Careerprise.com]]. Unlike [[#Our offerings]], ''Careerprise'' is:
 
: ''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 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 provide its customers with career services, but also generate business revenue in order to run its operations. [[#VIT]] employs its staffers and use no volunteers. [[#VIT]] also deploys its own technology.
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:* 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.
 
: 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===
: [[CITPMA]] stands for [[CITPMA|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 [[#iDosvid]].
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: [[CITPMA]] stands for [[CITPMA|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===
 
===CNMCyber===
: The term, [[CNMCyber]], initially referred to any digital extension of [[Career Network Ministry]] ([[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:
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: The term, [[CNMCyber]], initially referred to any digital extension of [[CNM]], a non-profit group from which [[#We]] originally came from. [[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:
:* '''[[CNMCyber product]]s''', which are services behind [[#Our offerings]]. [[#CNMCyber Welcome]], [[#CNMCyber Bootcamps]], and its signature [[website]], [[CNMCyber.com]] are those ''CNMCyber'' services that are marketed. They compose [[#The Pitcher]]'s [[#Product line]] of [[market exchangeable]]s that is designed to help the general public land job-alike practice and work experience. In other words, ''CNMCyber services'' can be defined as anything that [[#We]] do and that doesn't have its separate name such as [[#iDosvid]], [[#EmployableU Camp]], and [[#In2job Career Day]]. Because of our volunteer work, all of the services are brought to the general public overall and, particularly, to [[#The Students]] free-of-charge.
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:* '''[[CNMCyber product]]s''', which are services behind [[#Our offerings]]. [[#CNMCyber Welcome]], [[#CNMCyber Bootcamps]], and its signature social network, [[CNMCyber.com]], are those ''CNMCyber'' services that are marketed. They compose [[#The Pitcher]]'s [[#Product line]] of [[market exchangeable]]s that is designed to help the general public land job-alike practice and work experience. In other words, ''CNMCyber services'' can be defined as anything that [[#We]] do and that doesn't have its separate name such as [[#WiseNxt Academy]], [[#EmployableU Camp]], and [[#AINurtz Career Day]]. Because of our volunteer work, all of the services are brought to the general public overall and, particularly, to [[#The Students]] free-of-charge.
 
:*  '''Volunteer work''' that [[#We]] deliver. While being enrolled in [[#CNMCyber Bootcamps]] and, possibly, upper levels of [[#The Pipeline]], [[#The Students]] can be a part of ''CNMCyber''. With regards to them, ''CNMCyber'' can be roughly described as [[#The practice we envision]] and further [[#Apprenticeships]] for those who choose to volunteer and not transition to [[#Careerprise]].
 
:*  '''Volunteer work''' that [[#We]] deliver. While being enrolled in [[#CNMCyber Bootcamps]] and, possibly, upper levels of [[#The Pipeline]], [[#The Students]] can be a part of ''CNMCyber''. With regards to them, ''CNMCyber'' can be roughly described as [[#The practice we envision]] and further [[#Apprenticeships]] for those who choose to volunteer and not transition to [[#Careerprise]].
 
:*  '''Workplace''' in which [[#We]] volunteer. This workplace is bigger than [[#Opplet]] since [[#We]] may use physical spaces such as [[#VIT]]'s office located in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S.A.
 
:*  '''Workplace''' in which [[#We]] volunteer. This workplace is bigger than [[#Opplet]] since [[#We]] may use physical spaces such as [[#VIT]]'s office located in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S.A.
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===Educaship===
 
===Educaship===
: [[Educaship]] is [[#The Pitcher]]'s [[#Product line]] of [[market exchangeable]]s that resulted from strategic partnerships with various [[educational institution]]s and [[employer]]s. The ''educa-'' beginning of the term stands for [[education]], while the ''-ship'' ending does so for [[#Apprenticeships]]. In addition to the partnerships, the line includes [[#Educaship Fellowship]] and signature [[website]], [[Educaship.com]].
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: [[Educaship]] is [[#The Pitcher]]'s [[#Product line]] of [[market exchangeable]]s that resulted from strategic partnerships with various [[educational institution]]s and [[employer]]s. 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]].
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: In addition to the partnerships, the [[#Educaship]] line includes [[#Educaship Fellowship]] and signature [[website]], [[Educaship.com]].
  
 
===EmployableU===
 
===EmployableU===
 
: [[EmployableU]], which is pronounced as ''employable you'', is [[#The Pitcher]]'s [[#Product line]] of [[market exchangeable]]s designed to introduce career management concepts to the general public. The line includes [[#EmployableU Camp]], [[#EmployableU Concepts]], and its signature [[website]], [[EmployableU.com]].
 
: [[EmployableU]], which is pronounced as ''employable you'', is [[#The Pitcher]]'s [[#Product line]] of [[market exchangeable]]s designed to introduce career management concepts to the general public. The line includes [[#EmployableU Camp]], [[#EmployableU Concepts]], and its signature [[website]], [[EmployableU.com]].
  
===In2job===
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===KenyaX===
: [[In2job]], which is pronounced as ''into-job'', is [[#The Pitcher]]'s [[#Product line]] of [[market exchangeable]]s designed to navigate their customers in their career journeys. Although this help can be personalized through [[Q&A]] sessions, it falls short from one-on-one guidance that is available for participants of [[#iDosvid]] and/or volunteers of [[#CNMCyber]]. The ''In2job'' line includes [[#In2job Career Day]] and [[In2job.com]], which is the signature [[website]] of this [[#Product line]].
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: [[KenyaX]] is the [[#Brand]] of [[#WiseNxt]] products in Kenya.
  
 
===KSACerts===
 
===KSACerts===
 
: [[KSACerts]] are the [[trade certificate]]s that [[#VIT]] develops, administers, and markets to certify [[#KSAs]] of their holders. Four [[#Certificates]] are available to [[#The Students]]:
 
: [[KSACerts]] are the [[trade certificate]]s that [[#VIT]] develops, administers, and markets to certify [[#KSAs]] of their holders. Four [[#Certificates]] are available to [[#The Students]]:
 
:# [[KSA Certified Event Organizer]] granted after successful completion of [[#Event-driven projects]].
 
:# [[KSA Certified Event Organizer]] granted after successful completion of [[#Event-driven projects]].
:# [[KSA Certified Digital Developer]] to be earned in [[#Technology projects]].
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:# [[KSA Certified Website Developer]] to be earned in [[#Technology projects]].
 
:# [[KSA Certified Digital Operator]] to be earned in [[#Cloud operations]].
 
:# [[KSA Certified Digital Operator]] to be earned in [[#Cloud operations]].
 
:# [[#CITPMA]] to be earned in [[#Endeavor coordination]].
 
:# [[#CITPMA]] to be earned in [[#Endeavor coordination]].
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===Occupation===
 
===Occupation===
 
: On this wikipage, an ''[[occupation]]'' refers to any profession and/or an employment position before it becomes one's [[#Target occupation]].
 
: On this wikipage, an ''[[occupation]]'' refers to any profession and/or an employment position before it becomes one's [[#Target occupation]].
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===Opplet Web===
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: [[Opplet Web]] is the network of websites within [[#Opplet]].
  
 
===Opplet.net===
 
===Opplet.net===
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===Our Partners===
 
===Our Partners===
: For the purposes of this wikipage, ''Our Partners'' refer to legal entities that agree to bring [[#What we look for]] to the partnership and two parties, [[#The Pitcher]] and ''Our Partners'', agree to collaborate on delivering [[#The practice we envision]] and/or [[#The services we build]], as well as marketing of [[#Our offerings]].
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: 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:
 
: Particularly, [[#We]] are looking for:
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:# '''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.
 
:# '''Education and job training providers''', so [[#The Students]] can have a choice of opportunities to build their [[#KSAs]].
 
:# '''Education and job training providers''', so [[#The Students]] can have a choice of opportunities to build their [[#KSAs]].
:# '''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.
 
 
:# '''[[Employer]]s''', so [[#The Students]] can land their [[#Apprenticeships]] and meaningful, high-quality employment.
 
:# '''[[Employer]]s''', 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''.
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: 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===
 
===Product line===
: On this wikipage, a [[product line]] refers to a group of [[market exchangeable]]s 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]], [[#In2job]], and [[#WorldOpp]].
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: On this wikipage, a [[product line]] refers to a group of [[market exchangeable]]s that share both (1) the [[#Brand]] and (2) one 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===
 
===Professional groups===
: On this wikipage, ''Professional groups'' refer to [[CNMCyber community|CNMCyber communities]] such as [[CNM WordPress Users]], [[CNM Jitsi Users]], [[CNM MediaWiki Users]], [[CNM Moodle Users]], etc.
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: On this wikipage, ''Professional groups'' refer to [[CNMCyber community|CNMCyber communities]] such as [[CNM WordPress Users]], [[CNM Jitsi Users]], [[CNM HumHub Users]], [[CNM Moodle Users]], etc.
  
 
===Target occupation===
 
===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 [[#iDosvid]]. In plain English, the graduate's ''target occupation'' is the job that the graduate from [[#iDosvid]] 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.
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: 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===
 
===The Pipeline===
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: 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.
 
: 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]], [[#In2job]], [[#Opplet]], [[#Opplet.net]], and [[#WorldOpp]] are also the ''Pitcher's'' brand names.
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: 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''.
 
: The ''Pitcher's'' official [[website]] is [[TheEconomicGroup.com]]. As a group of volunteers, [[#We]] are a part of the ''Pitcher''.
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: The ''VMs'' run on [[Linux]]-alike [[Ubuntu]] [[operating system]] ([[operating system|OS]]). Physically located in a [[data center]] in Germany, [[CNM Lab Farm]] hosts those machines.
 
: The ''VMs'' run on [[Linux]]-alike [[Ubuntu]] [[operating system]] ([[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 [[CNM WordPress]] instances with which [[#The Students]] may experiment personally, without their peer interruptions.
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: ''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.
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: 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.
 
: 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.
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===WiseNxt===
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: [[WiseNxt]] is [[#The Pitcher]]'s [[#Product line]] of [[market exchangeable]]s 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]].
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: 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]].
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: 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===
 
: [[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 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 exchangeable]]s 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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: [[#WorldOpp]] is [[#The Pitcher]]'s [[#Product line]] of [[market exchangeable]]s 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]].

Latest revision as of 13:53, 2 June 2024

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.


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 business 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.

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 business 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.

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 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 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 need from partners

For the purpose of this wikipage, What we need from partners refers to what we need from #Our Partners. The #Our business 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 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:

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 CNM, a non-profit group from which #We originally came from. 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) the #Brand and (2) one 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.