Education Partnerships
TMA is the member-based organizer of the largest BlueTech cluster in the U.S.
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TMA Blue Tech builds awareness for the Blue Economy together with our Education Partners.
Working directly with our education partners, we bring together academia and industry to provide experential learning on real projects. We find that the best way to engage students is to allow the opportunity for them to impact their world and support our member companies in the process.
TMA organizes and supports future inventors and entrepreneurs to promote sustainable ocean and water technologies with our Education Partners.
Mira Costa College
Technical Career Institute
ln 2015, the City of Carlsbad and MiraCosta College opened a Technical Career Institute in north San Diego County with $2.75 milllion in funding from the Department of Labor to provide accelerated training in advanced manufacturing, biotech and BlueTech. TCI has graduated over 300 students with a 94% job placement rate and is currently training 230 students annuallly.
San Diego Unified School District
The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) serves over 105,000 students from pre-school through grade 1.2. In Fall 2017, TMA partnered with SDUSD to launch the BlueSTEM Career Technical Education (CTE) Pathway Program, which uses experiential learning and industry involvement to educate students about BlueTech/Blue Economy. 750 students were served by the program in its pilot year. SDUSD plans to work with TMA to scale BlueTech education to all 105,000 K-12 students in the school district over the next 5-7 years - a first in the State of California if not in the country.
University of San Diego
The University of San Diego (USD) has a long record of supporting undergraduate research across the curriculum with an emphasis in the STEM disciplines. TMA will also work with "the Brink" at USD, which provides world-class training and one-to-one consulting to business clients running or starting growth-oriented, innovation-based companies. lt was recently ranked #1 among Business Incubators & Accelerators in San Diego by the SD Business Journal. It is a specialty center focused on innovation, one of only a handful of its kind in the U.S. and will help with training early stage BlueTech.
Training Resources Limited Maritime Institute (TRLMI)
TRLMI is one of the largest private merchant mariner training academies in the U.S. and a multi-year TMA member company. It offers over 80 U.S. Coast Guardapproved courses on all aspects of safe vessel operation to professional and recreational mariners. There is a large and growing need for trained merchant mariners in the U.S.
