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[[Educaship pitch]] is a [[sales pitch]] that [[The Economic Group]] (hereinafter, [[#The Pitcher]]) utilizes in order to attract educational partners (hereinafter, [[#The Partners]]) into development of introductory work experience, career options, and guided entrances to the labour market for their students in Kenya.
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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 [[#What practice we envision]] and markets the [[#Our brand names]] on behalf of [[#The Pitcher]].
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[[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]].
  
  
==Business needs==
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==In a nutshell==
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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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.
  
So, improvement of services that youth can use to enter the workforce is the primary [[business need]] of [[#The Pitcher]] in Kenya.
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===30-second pitch===
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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
  
===In the nutshell===
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===Bridging the gaps===
: 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. Among [[#Our brand names]], [[#iDosvid]] is our signature product for high-school students. This service features artificial intelligence, introductory training, and workplace sandboxes to deliver vocational orientation and work experience to [[#The Students]].
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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:
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:# '''Identify''' [[#The Students]]' professional aptitudes, inclinations, and interests, as well as their strengths, weaknesses, and special features.
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:# '''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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:# '''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]].
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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.
  
: Its backbone is job-alike practice, in which [[#The Students]] explore various occupations to find the best match. Until target occupations are identified, [[#The Students]] can organize meetings, develop IT, operate clouds, and coordinate cyber endeavors that would benefit the public good.
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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]].
  
: While being placed in the drivers' seats of modern technology, [[#The Students]] 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]].
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===Our aspirations===
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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:
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:* '''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]].
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:* '''[[#Bridging the gaps]]''' between the employment needs of [[#The Students]] and current market offerings.
  
: To complete [[#iDosvid]]'s development, [[#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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: 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.
  
: Such development requires [[#The Students]]. Therefore, [[#We]] are now looking for [[#The Partners]], most likely, high schools or whatever else that can bring a sizeable number of [[#The Students]] of school age to [[#iDosvid]] or its limited scope versions called [[#WorldOpp Career Day]] and [[#EmployableU Camp]].
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===Our commitments===
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: With regards to [[#The Students]], [[#We]] are committed to:
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:# Guiding [[#The Students]] through the first three stages of [[#The Pipeline]].
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:# 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]].
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: Our potential commitments to [[#Our Partners]] are listed in the [[#What we can commit to]] section of this wikipage.
  
: To the partnership, [[#We]] bring introductory training, workplace sandboxes, supporting technology, and limited financing. From [[#The Partners]], [[#We]] expect their [[#Expertise in youth work]] and [[#The Students]] to participate.
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===Our DevOps===
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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:
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:# On the ''Dev'' side, [[#We]] produce, deliver, and deploy new products or modifications of existing products.
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:# 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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: In addition, many [[employer]]s 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.
  
===30-second pitch===
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===Our limitations===
: We at CNMCyber welcome high schools as partners to provide their students with introductory work experience, career options, and guided entrances to the labour market. The students are to explore various occupations, find the best match, and earn competency credentials. To the partnership, we bring introductory training, workplace sandboxes, supporting technology, and limited financing. 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]] 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.
  
==Our brand names==
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: 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.
For the purposes of this wikipage, ''our brand names'' refer to three of our [[work product]]s that we market. They are [[#iDosvid]], [[#EmployableU Camp]], and [[#WorldOpp Career Day]]. [[#We]] are working on each of those products.
 
  
In addition to ''our brand names'', [[#We]] may also promote [[#Other products we market]].
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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.
  
===iDosvid===
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===Our business needs===
: [[iDosvid]] represents the full scope of the first three stages of [[#The Pipeline]] delivered free of charge. The name, ''i Dosvid'', pronounced "ee dos-veed", which means "and experience" in Ukrainian. The idea behind the name was that [[#The Students]] shall receive [[#Vocational orientation]], [[#Competency credentials]], "and experience" by the end of ''iDosvid''.
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: Based on [[#Our aspirations]] and [[#Our limitations]], our [[business need]]s are:
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:* Building [[#Our offerings]] to bridge those gaps between education and employment that [[#Our Partners]] don't bridge.
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:* Partnering with secondary and/or vocational education providers and other organizations that provide services to juveniles and/or young adults to augment their services with our school-to-work transition ones.
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:* Partnering with providers of [[job interview]] preparation, [[job search]], [[market presence]], [[resume]] writing, [[social networking]], and [[workforce development]] to bring their services to [[#The Students]].
  
: [[#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 goal of ''iDosvid'' is setting up [[#The Students]] for success in their career development. [[#We]] expect that graduates from ''iDosvid'' should:
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===Our story===
:* '''Identify''' their target occupation or occupations.
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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.  
:* '''Have a choice''' of apprenticeship and workforce development opportunities, including ones from professional training providers.
 
:* '''Be able''' to plan their career development and meaningful job landing in some details, including financial issues even when they have absolutely no monetary resources in their households available.
 
:* '''Be more''' employable than before enrolling into ''iDosvid''.
 
  
: ''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]].
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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]].
  
===EmployableU Camp===
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: 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.
: [[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 Foundation]] 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]].
 
  
: The ''Camp'' is designed to be delivered in 3 sessions at least and, therefore is still bigger than [[#WorldOpp Career Day]].  
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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]].
  
: The goal of the ''Camp'' is preparing [[#The Students]] for career development. [[#We]] expect that graduates from the ''Camp'' should know how to identify their target occupations, choices for acquiring the needed [[#KSAs]], and landing their jobs. Those participants of the ''Camp'' who are interested in a fuller scope can switch to [[#iDosvid]] while being enrolled in or after graduation from the ''Camp''.
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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.
  
===WorldOpp Career Day===
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==The delivery we anticipate==
: [[WorldOpp Career Day]] is the shortened version of [[#EmployableU Camp]] and, therefore, the shortest product that [[#We]] are going to market. It is designed to be delivered in one day as a [[#Career day]].
 
  
: The goal of the ''Career Day'' is making sure that [[#The Students]] are aware of [[#Vocational orientation]], [[#Competency credentials]], career development, 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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===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.
  
==What services we build==
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===Career day===
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 [[#What practice we envision]] in order to explore various professions in order to find the best match and earn [[#Competency credentials]].
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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.
  
All of the services that we build heavily rely on [[#The Cloud]], so [[#The Students]] shall also get [[#Tech support]].
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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.
  
===Credentialing===
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: The product can be adapted to the target audience to include anything from nursing to AI architects.
: 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.
 
  
===Introductory training===
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===Global extensions===
: [[#The Students]] should receive formal training that reflects the [[#Learning sequence we use]] and based on [[#Course prototypes]].
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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).
  
===Student support===
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===Summer camp===
: 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.
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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.
:# [[CNMCyber event]]s
 
:# [[CNM Social]]
 
:# To get one-on-one connection, [[#The Students]] shall be served with a sufficient number of remote mentors and [[#Staffers on the ground]]. The mentors may also provide [[#The Students]] with some [[on-the-job training]] when needed.
 
  
===Vocational orientation===
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==What students we target==
: Based on [[#What practice we envision]], mentor recommendations, 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.
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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.
  
==Competency credentials==
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===Primary audience===
[[#We]] believe that [[professional credential]]s are highly desired outcome for most of [[#The Students]]. Since [[#What practice we envision]] is the only source for those credentials, they are not available to graduates from [[#WorldOpp Career Day]]. Our service of [[#Credentialing]] is designed to give those who are enrolled into [[#EmployableU Camp]] and [[#iDosvid]] opportunities to earn them.
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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.
  
===Certificates===
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===Secondary audiences===
: Graduation from any quarter of [[#CNMCyber Bootcamps]] grants [[#The Students]] an according [[trade certificate]]. So, graduates from [[#iDosvid]] will have all four certificates, including [[CITPMA|Certified IT Project Management Associate]] ([[CITPMA]]). Graduates from [[#EmployableU Camp]] may have up to three: [[VIT Certified Meeting Organizer]], [[VIT Certified Website Developer]], and [[VIT Certified Cloud Operator]].
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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.
  
: The abbreviation, [[#VIT]], in the certificate names underlines the fact that [[#VIT]] issues them based on the data that [[#We]] provide, as well as maintains the records. These [[trade certificate]]s are not tailored to any particular profession, but are useful through various [[Professional specialty|professional specialties]] and [[occupation]]s.
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==What we already get==
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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]].
  
===Performance records===
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===Opplet===
: While being enrolled in [[#What practice we envision]], [[#The Students]] shall participate in various professional groups such as [[CNM WordPress Users]], [[CNM Jitsi Users]], [[CNM MediaWiki Users]], and [[CNM Moodle Users]]. That participation shall generate records of [[profession-related performance]] such as delivering a speech, serving on a board, writing an article, etc.
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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.
  
===Recommendations===
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===Training experience===
: Each of graduates from [[#iDosvid]] will receive an official [[professional recommendation]] from his or her mentor. Some of graduates from [[#EmployableU Camp]] may also get that credential.
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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.
  
===Work experience===
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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]].
: 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.
 
  
==Learning sequence we use==
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===Workplace sandboxes===
The [[#Our brand names]] 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 labour market.
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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:
 
 
The fourth stage, [[Educaship Fellowship]], combines professional education and [[apprenticeship]]. On the fifth stage, [[Careerprise Employment]], [[#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.
 
 
 
===WorldOpp Orientation===
 
: [[WorldOpp Orientation]] is a brief, no more than 2 hour long, course that is designed to introduce [[#The Students]] to [[#Our brand names]], [[#What services we build]], [[#Competency credentials]], [[#Learning sequence we use]], [[#What 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 using [[#What services we build]].
 
 
 
===EmployableU Foundation===
 
: [[EmployableU Foundation]] 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]].
 
 
 
===CNMCyber Bootcamps===
 
: [[CNMCyber Bootcamps]] combine [[#What 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 #
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|Software*
|Quarter title
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!Activities!!Delivered as||Introduced in
!Activity #!!Learning activity description!!Quarter-graduating [[#Certificates]]
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![[HumHub]]
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|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
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|-
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![[BookStack]]
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|rowspan="2"|To learn with [[#EmployableU Concepts]]||[[EmployableU.com]] (access**)
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![[Wiki.js]]
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|[[AINurtz.com]] (access**)
 
|-
 
|-
|rowspan="2"|1
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![[HuggingChat]]
!rowspan="2"|Organization of professional meetings
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|To augment learning with an [[artificial intelligence]] ([[artificial intelligence|AI]]) chat||[[CNM Chat]] (access**)
|1a||Taking [[Event Organizer Bootcamp]] lectures||rowspan="2"|[[VIT Certified Meeting Organizer]]
 
 
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|1b||Practicing with [[#Event projects]] as [[CNM Event Organizer]]s
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![[Moodle]]
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|To learn with [[CNMCyber Bootcamps]]||[[CNM Cert]] (access**)
 
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|rowspan="2"|2
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![[Jitsi]]
!rowspan="2"|Development of [[#CNMCyber]]
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|To conduct [[videoconference]]s||[[CNM Talk]] (access**)||rowspan="4"|[[#Event-driven projects]]
|2a||Taking [[Website Developer Bootcamp]] lectures||rowspan="2"|[[VIT Certified Website Developer]]
 
 
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|2b||Practicing with [[#Technology projects]] as [[CNM Website Developer]]s
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![[AVideo]]
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|To publish meeting videos||[[CNM Tube]] (access**)
 
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|-
|rowspan="2"|3
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![[DeepSpeech]] or [[PaddlePaddle]] and [[Parakeet]]
!rowspan="2"|Operations with [[#The Cloud]]
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|To produce meeting transcripts using [[artificial intelligence]] ([[artificial intelligence|AI]])||[[CNM Speech]] (access**)
|3a||Taking [[Cloud Operator Bootcamp]] lectures||rowspan="2"|[[VIT Certified Cloud Operator]]
 
 
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|3b||Practicing with [[#Cloud operations]] as [[CNM Cloud Operator]]s
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![[OBS Studio]]
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|To record meetings and produce videos||rowspan="4"|Personal app on [[#VM]]***
 
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|rowspan="2"|4
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![[Android Studio]]
!rowspan="2"|Coordination of [[#CNMCyber]]
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|To create mobile apps||rowspan="7"|[[#Technology projects]]
|4a||Taking [[Cyber Coordinator Bootcamp]] lectures||rowspan="2"|[[CITPMA|Certified IT Project Management Associate]] ([[CITPMA]])
 
 
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|4b||Practicing with [[#Endeavor coordination]] as [[CNMCyber Coordinator]]s; planning for the career is the graduating endeavor.
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![[Nextcloud]]
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|To produce office documents
 
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==What practice we envision==
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!rowspan="2"|[[WordPress]]
As an integral part of [[#CNMCyber Bootcamps]], [[#The Students]] are going to practice in job-alike simulation environments. No practice presents any particular occupation. All of the practices can be met in workspaces across various industries and professions.
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|To manage content of personal [[website]]
 
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[[#The Students]] practice with the non-profit endeavors. 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.
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|To manage content of [[#WiseNxt]]'s [[website]]||[[WiseNxt.com]] (access**)
 
+
|-
===Event projects===
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![[Craiyon]] or [[Stable Diffusion XL]]
: As [[CNM Event Organizer]]s, [[#The Students]] are to organize non-sensitive meetings that would be offered to the general public at no cost. Technology user groups such as [[CNM WordPress Users]], [[CNM Jitsi Users]], [[CNM MediaWiki Users]], [[CNM Moodle Users]], etc. would be the primary focus.
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|To produce website designs using [[artificial intelligence]] ([[artificial intelligence|AI]])||[[CNM Design]] (access**)
 
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|-
: As a part of their [[#Workplace sandboxes]], [[#The Students]] will receive power-user accesses to (a) [[CNM Social]] to schedule meetings, (b) [[CNM Talk]] to conduct conferences, (c) [[CNM Tube]] to post meeting videos, as well as (d) personal [[#VM]]s with installed [[OBS Studio]]s to record meetings and produce videos.
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![[Ghost (CMS)]] or [[Grav]]
 
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|To manage content of public [[website]]s||[[CNM Page]] (access**)
===Technology projects===
 
: As [[CNM Website Developer]]s, [[#The Students]] are to develop documentation and prototypes for websites and other technology products. The best draft of a list of available projects is published on the [[CNM Website Projects]] wikipage.
 
 
 
===Cloud operations===
 
: As [[CNM Cloud Operator]]s, [[#The Students]] are to operate existing applications of [[#The Cloud]]. 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.
 
 
 
===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. 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 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 business analytics, recruitment, and management as well.
 
 
 
==Comparisons of our brands==
 
===Within the sequence===
 
All the products behind [[#Our brand names]] are built on [[#Learning sequence we use]].
 
:{|class="wikitable" width=100% style="text-align:center;"
 
|[[#Learning sequence we use]]
 
![[#WorldOpp Career Day]]!![[#EmployableU Camp]]!![[#iDosvid]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
![[#WorldOpp Orientation]]
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![[Apache OpenNLP]]
|Slightly touched||Covered fully||Covered fully
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|To produce content's metadata using [[artificial intelligence]] ([[artificial intelligence|AI]])||[[CNM Lingua]] (access**)
 
|-
 
|-
![[#EmployableU Foundation]]
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![[Odoo]]
|Covered partially||Covered fully||Covered fully
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|To produce enterprise-alike records||[[CNM Corp]] (access**)||rowspan="4"|[[#Cloud operations]]
 
|-
 
|-
![[#CNMCyber Bootcamps]]
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![[CanvasLMS]] or [[OpenEdX]]
|Slightly touched||Covered partially||Covered fully
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|To produce learning materials||[[CNM Onboard]] (access**)
|}
 
 
 
===Services vs brands===
 
All the products behind [[#Our brand names]] offer some combination of [[#What services we build]].
 
:{|class="wikitable" width=100% style="text-align:center;"
 
|[[#What services we build]]
 
![[#WorldOpp Career Day]]!![[#EmployableU Camp]]!![[#iDosvid]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
![[#Credentialing]]
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![[Grafana]] or [[Zabbix]] or [[Nagios]]
|Not offered||Offered partially, no [[CITPMA]] is available||Offered fully
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|To monitor various apps of [[#Opplet]]||[[CNM Monitor]] (access**)
 
|-
 
|-
![[#Introductory training]]
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![[TensorFlow]] or [[H2O.ai]]
|Offered minimally||Offered partially||Offered fully
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|To visualize monitoring using [[artificial intelligence]] ([[artificial intelligence|AI]])||[[CNM Visual]] (access**)
 
|-
 
|-
![[#Student support]]
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![[GitLab]]
|Offered minimally||Offered partially||Offered fully
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|To document and get first-hand documentation, [[source code]]s, and software files||rowspan="2"|[[CNM Lab]] (access**)
 
|-
 
|-
![[#Vocational orientation]]
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![[Redmine]] or [[Taiga software]]
|Offered minimally||Offered partially||Offered fully
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|To manage tech projects||[[#Endeavor coordination]]
 
|}
 
|}
  
==Other products we market==
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:{|class="noborder" width=100%
 
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|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]].
===Careerprise===
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: [[Careerprise]] is the package of commercial services to those who are on [[job market]]s, going to be there, or would like to be employed. The learners who are enrolled in ''Careerprise'' are supposed to pay for the services they receive and be paid for the services they render.
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|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.
 
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|-
: Unlike [[#Our brand names]], ''Careerprise'' is:
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|style="vertical-align:top;"|'''***'''||Personal [[#VM]]s come with [[super-user]] permissions.
:* Not a single product. It is more like a store, in which buyers can choose what they need.
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:* 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.
 
 
 
: Nevertheless, [[#We]] may market ''Careerprise'' 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 brand names]] and ''Careerprise'' as many times as they choose so.
 
 
 
===CNMCyber===
 
: [[CNMCyber]] represents both services that [[#We]] deliver and our work on them. With regards to:
 
:* Our services, they can be find behind [[#iDosvid]], [[#EmployableU Camp]], and [[#WorldOpp Career Day]], all of which are delivered free-of-charge.
 
:* Our volunteer work, ''CNMCyber'' can be roughly described as [[#What practice we envision]] and further [[#Apprenticeships]].
 
: The goal of ''CNMCyber'', as a brand name, is to attract potential volunteers. [[#We]] market ''CNMCyber'' in order to recruit more volunteers to join us.
 
 
 
==Job offers==
 
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]], which is the fourth stage of [[#The Pipeline]]. [[Apprenticeship]] is the backbone feature of the ''Fellowship''. Its participants normally start working at some portion of a professional rate and their rates grow as their [[#KSAs]] grow.
 
  
===Side work===
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: As of October of 2023, about 65% of sandbox [[#MVP]] is complete.
: 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 [[VIT Certified Meeting 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 custodians. In that case, the custodian 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.
 
 
 
==What 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 [[#WorldOpp 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 [[#WorldOpp 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 Foundation]], 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]].
 
 
 
===Workplace sandboxes===
 
: Each of [[#The Students]] will receive:
 
:* His or her personal [[#VM]]. Those ''VMs'' will emulate corporate devices; they shall be used in [[#What 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.
 
 
 
===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 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]].
 
 
 
===The Cloud===
 
: For the purposes of this wikipage, the ''Cloud'' refers to [[CNM Cloud]], which is our cloud-based technology behind [[#What services we build]]. [[#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.
 
: Those [[#Students]] who choose to become [[system administrator]]s, may conduct their [[apprenticeship]]s on [[CNM Bureau Farm]], [[CNM Campus Farm]], and [[CNM Lab Farm]]. As of October of 2023, about 67% of [[#MVP]] is complete.
 
  
 
==What we can commit to==
 
==What we can commit to==
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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===
 
===Advisory committee===
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===Limited financing===
 
===Limited financing===
 
: Utilizing [[#The Pitcher]]'s financing, [[#We]] can commit to covering some expenses. However, limitations of that financing require us to prioritize.
 
: Utilizing [[#The Pitcher]]'s financing, [[#We]] can commit to covering some expenses. However, limitations of that financing require us to prioritize.
:# First and foremost, [[#We]] can commit to work on [[#The Cloud]] until 100% of [[#MVP]] is complete.
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:# First and foremost, [[#We]] can commit to work on [[#Opplet]] until 100% of [[#MVP]] is complete.
 
:# Secondly, [[#We]] would favor covering costs of [[#Access to our cloud]].
 
:# Secondly, [[#We]] would favor covering costs of [[#Access to our cloud]].
:# Thirdly, [[#We]] would strongly consider funding [[#Staffers on the ground]]; [[#The Pitcher]] may either transfer funds to [[#The Partners]] or treating them as [[Careerprise contractor]]s.
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:# Thirdly, [[#We]] would strongly consider funding [[#Staffers on the ground]]; [[#The Pitcher]] may either transfer funds to [[#Our Partners]] or treating them as [[Careerprise contractor]]s.
:# The rest of our budget can be used for endeavors related to, in alphabetical order, [[#Advisory committee]], [[#Partner motivation]], [[#Our brand names]], and/or [[#Student motivation]].
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:# 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===
 
===Tech support===
 
: [[#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 need==
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==What we need from partners==
[[#We]] are developing [[#What services we build]], but the development goes slowly. The services are just partially available at the moment. To expedite the development, [[#We]] look for [[#The Partners]]' help.
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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.
  
 
===Access to our cloud===
 
===Access to our cloud===
 
: To access the technology, [[#The Students]] should have:
 
: To access the technology, [[#The Students]] should have:
:# '''Internet''' connection. Through [[#Limited financing]], [[#We]] may initiate partial or 100% [[#Reimbursements]] if [[#The Students]] access via their own devices and/or payments to [[#The Partners]] to cover their expenses.
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:# '''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.
 
:# '''Computing devices''' such as smartphones or laptops. [[#We]] may provide [[#Fundraising assistance]] to raise resources for the devices, their storage, and transportation.
 
:# '''Computing devices''' such as smartphones or laptops. [[#We]] may provide [[#Fundraising assistance]] to raise resources for the devices, their storage, and transportation.
 
:# 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.
 
:# 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.
 
===Expertise in youth work===
 
: [[#We]] have absolutely no expertise in working with youth in Kenya, including cultural, economic, and legal environments. 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.
 
  
 
===Staffers on the ground===
 
===Staffers on the ground===
 
: [[#The Students]] should have at least a couple of staffers on the ground to:
 
: [[#The Students]] should have at least a couple of staffers on the ground to:
:* Help [[#The Students]] to resolve learning challenges.
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:* Act as [[#Our Mentors]] while helping [[#The Students]] to resolve learning challenges.
 
:* Manage interpersonal conflicts, which may possibly occur.
 
:* Manage interpersonal conflicts, which may possibly occur.
 
: The target number of the staffers should depend on the number of students.
 
: The target number of the staffers should depend on the number of students.
  
 
===The Students===
 
===The Students===
: For the purposes of this wikipage, the ''Students'' refer to recipients of [[#What services we build]]. The [[#What students we target]] section of this wikipage describes our target audiences.
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: 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.
 
: 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.
  
==What students we target==
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===Youth work expertise===
[[#We]] welcome [[#The Students]] of any walks of life until they believe that [[#What services we build]] can help them. Saying that, [[#We]] predict that those who would like to identify their occupational calling and professional specialties should be benefited the most.
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: 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.
 
 
===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===
 
:* School students before the grade of the [[#Primary audience]], especially, while offering [[#WorldOpp 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 defined their occupations yet. If these people are minors, access to their custodians 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===
: [[#The Partners]] differ from [[Careerprise contractor]]s. [[#The Pitcher]] offers monetary compensation for contractors' services, while hiring contractors. [[#The Partners]] can be the contractors as well, but different agreements shall regulate these two roles.
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: [[#Our Partners]] differ from [[Careerprise contractor]]s. [[#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==
 
==What is to be negotiated==
For the purposes of this wikipage, ''what is to be negotiated'' refers to those terms that [[#The Partners]] and [[#The Pitcher]] are welcome to negotiate; legally-binding agreements should include the agreed terms.
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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===
 
===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 [[#The 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.
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: 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]].
 
: Among [[#What is to be negotiated]] items, ''agreement texts'' serve as capstone items. They shall include [[#Names of products]], [[#Student motivation]], and [[#Partner motivation]].
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: [[#We]] propose to negotiate both [[#Student motivation]] and [[#Partner motivation]].
 
: [[#We]] propose to negotiate both [[#Student motivation]] and [[#Partner motivation]].
  
===Names of products===
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===Products and names===
: Are the names listed in the [[#Our brand names]] section of this wikipage the best? Together, we can possibly adjust the names to a particular school, region, or anything else.
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: 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==
 
==Student motivation==
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==Partner motivation==
 
==Partner motivation==
[[#We]] strongly believe that [[#What services we build]], [[#What practice we envision]], [[#What delivery we anticipate]], and other [[#Student motivation]] would benefit [[#The Students]], and, therefore, [[#The Partners]]. Beyond those, [[#We]] would love to negotiate [[#Administrative fees]], [[#Academic exchange]], and [[#Mutual marketing]].
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[[#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===
 
===Administrative fees===
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===Academic exchange===
 
===Academic exchange===
: If [[#The 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.
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: 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===
 
===Marketing for partners===
: For the purposes of this wikipage, ''marketing for partners'' refers to our possible efforts to market services of [[#The Partners]]. The ideas to start with are as follows:
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: 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:
 
:* 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 brand names]] in one place, offering the rest in other places. For instance, we offer [[#iDosvid]] in one school. Our mutual offering of [[#WorldOpp 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.
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==Used terms==
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On this very wikipage, a few abbreviations and terms are commonly used.
  
==Compliance==
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===AINurtz===
[[#We]] would like to make sure that [[#What services we build]] and [[#What practice we envision]] comply with existing laws.
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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.
  
===Employment Act===
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: The ''AINurtz'' line includes [[#AINurtz Career Day]] and [[AINurtz.com]], which is the signature [[website]] of this [[#Product line]].
: 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.
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===Brand===
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: 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.
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:{|class="wikitable" width=100% style="text-align:center;"
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|Brand names
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!Purpose!!Owner
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|-
 +
![[#Careerprise]]
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|One-stop shop for career services (mostly, paid)||rowspan="2"|[[#VIT]]
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|-
 +
![[#CITPMA]]
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|Entry-level credential in [[information technology]] and [[project management]]
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|-
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![[#CNMCyber]]
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|Volunteers and career services for them||rowspan="5"|[[#The Pitcher]]
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|-
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![[#Educaship]]
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|Collaboration to combine [[#Apprenticeships]] and education
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|-
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![[#EmployableU]]
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|Presentations of general career concepts
 +
|-
 +
![[#WiseNxt]]
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|School-to-work transition service
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|-
 +
![[#AINurtz]]
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|Personalized, but not one-on-one, help in navigation of career journeys
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|-
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![[#KSACerts]]
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|Credentials based on evaluations of specific [[#KSAs]]||[[#VIT]]
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|-
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![[#Opplet]]
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|Technology behind [[#CNMCyber]]||rowspan="2"|[[#The Pitcher]]
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![[#WorldOpp]]
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|Full-scope placement into entrepreneurship and/or employment
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: 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.
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===Careerprise===
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: [[Careerprise]] is [[#VIT]]'s one-stop shop for those who are on [[job market]]s, 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.
  
: 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
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: ''Careerprise's'' official website is [[Careerprise.com]]. Unlike [[#Our offerings]], ''Careerprise'' is:
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:* Not a single product. It is a store, in which buyers can choose what they need.
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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.
  
: [[#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.
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: 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.
  
: 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 our cloud technology, which is physically located in Germany.
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===CITPMA===
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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]].
  
: To sum up, [[#We]] are not going to employ [[#The Students]] as the law implies. To avoid any conflicts in complying with the Employment Act, [[#We]] would like to reach out to the Kenyan National Employment Authority.
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===CNMCyber===
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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:
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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.
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:*  '''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]].
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:*  '''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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: 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.
  
===Industrial Training Act===
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===Educaship===
: 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.
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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]].
  
: Indeed, [[#What 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.  
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: In addition to the partnerships, the [[#Educaship]] line includes [[#Educaship Fellowship]] and signature [[website]], [[Educaship.com]].
  
: 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.
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===EmployableU===
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: [[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]].
  
: 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 [[#WorldOpp Career Camp]] only.
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===KenyaX===
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: [[KenyaX]] is the [[#Brand]] of [[#WiseNxt]] products in Kenya.
  
: 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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===KSACerts===
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: [[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]]:
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:# [[KSA Certified Event Organizer]] granted after successful completion of [[#Event-driven projects]].
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:# [[KSA Certified Website Developer]] to be earned in [[#Technology projects]].
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:# [[KSA Certified Digital Operator]] to be earned in [[#Cloud operations]].
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:# [[#CITPMA]] to be earned in [[#Endeavor coordination]].
  
==Used terms==
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: [[#VIT]] issues those certificates to [[#The Students]] based on the data that [[#We]] provide, as well as maintains the records. ''KSACerts<nowiki>'</nowiki>'' official website is [[KSACerts.com]].
On this very wikipage, a few abbreviations and terms are commonly used.
 
  
 
===KSAs===
 
===KSAs===
: For the purposes of this wikipage, ''KSAs'' refer to [[KSA|knowledge, skills, and abilities]] ([[KSA]]), which is a combination of the competencies that are required for particular professions, occupations, or position.
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: On this wikipage, ''KSAs'' refer to [[KSA|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===
 
===MVP===
: For the purposes of this wikipage, ''MVP'' refers to [[minimum viable product]], which is service or technology at the state of functionality, but not usability yet.
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: On this wikipage, ''MVP'' refers to [[minimum viable product]], which is service or technology at the state of functionality, but not usability yet.
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===Occupation===
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: 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]].
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===Opplet.net===
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: [[Opplet.net]] is the [[user management system]] of [[#Opplet]].
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===Our Mentors===
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: 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 [[mentor]]s to [[#The Students]]. ''Our Mentors<nowiki>'</nowiki>'' contributions are instrumental in providing [[#The Students]] with [[#Recommendations]] and [[#Student support]]. The ''Mentors'' may or may not be helpful in [[#Job-related networking]].
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===Our Partners===
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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]].
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: 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.
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:# '''Education and job training providers''', so [[#The Students]] can have a choice of opportunities to build their [[#KSAs]].
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:# '''[[Employer]]s''', so [[#The Students]] can land their [[#Apprenticeships]] and meaningful, high-quality employment.
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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]].
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===Product line===
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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]].
  
===The Partners===
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===Professional groups===
: For the purposes of this wikipage, the ''Partners'' refer to legal entities that agree to bring [[#What we need]] to the partnership and both parties agree to collaborate on delivering [[#What practice we envision]] and/or [[#What services we build]], as well as marketing of [[#Our brand names]].
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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.
  
: The [[#What partners we look for]] section of this wikipage contains our requirements to the ''Partners''.
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===Target occupation===
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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===
 
: 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]].
 
: 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. [[#We]] run the first three stages of the ''Pipeline'' and [[#VIT]] runs the last two.
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: The ''Pipeline's'' stages are briefly described in the [[#Learning sequence we use]] section of this wikipage:
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:* 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.
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:* [[#VIT]] runs the last two stages of the ''Pipeline''; [[#We]] can be enrolled in those stages free-of-charge as well.
  
 
===The Pitcher===
 
===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 such as [[#WorldOpp Career Day]], [[#EmployableU Camp]], [[#CNMCyber]], and [[#iDosvid]]. As a group of volunteers, [[#We]] are a part of the ''Pitcher''.
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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.
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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.
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: The ''Pitcher's'' official [[website]] is [[TheEconomicGroup.com]]. As a group of volunteers, [[#We]] are a part of the ''Pitcher''.
  
 
===VIT===
 
===VIT===
: For the purposes of this wikipage, ''VIT'' refers to [[Virginia Institute of Technology LLC]], which is a [[limited liability company]] that is filed in Virginia, United States. [[#We]] don't represent ''VIT'', but mention it because of the benefits it brings to [[#The Students]]. The primary examples are:
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: 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:
 
:# ''VIT'' runs two upper stages of [[#The Pipeline]], including [[#Apprenticeships]].
 
:# ''VIT'' runs two upper stages of [[#The Pipeline]], including [[#Apprenticeships]].
:# Based of the data that [[#We]] provide, ''VIT'' issues [[VIT Certified Meeting Organizer]], [[VIT Certified Website Developer]], [[VIT Certified Cloud Operator]], and [[CITPMA|Certified IT Project Management Associate]] ([[CITPMA]]) [[#Competency credentials]] to [[#The Students]].
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:# Based of the data that [[#We]] provide, ''VIT'' issues [[#KSACerts]] [[#Certificates]] to [[#The Students]].
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: The department of business development of ''VIT'' is responsible for [[#Careerprise]], [[#CITPMA]], [[#KSACerts]], and [[#The Pipeline]] products. Its official [[website]] is [[VIT4all.com]].
  
 
===VM===
 
===VM===
: For the purposes of 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]].
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: 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]] ([[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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: 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===
 
===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]]. ''We'' develop [[#What services we build]], administer [[#What practice we envision]], and market [[#Our brand names]].
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: 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]].
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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.
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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. 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. The overall programme features workforce development, employment, and entrepreneurship support especially in the under-served communities worldwide.
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: [[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.
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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.