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At 03:34 PM 7/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Van den Bosch Mark wrote:
>
>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> I read all the emails regarding AS/400 eduction. COMMON Belgium usergroups
>> is trying since early 1997, to motivate schools/colleges to include AS/400
>> in their curriculum. Which is relatively easy. But they all ask for
>> 'education of their staff'.
>>
>> After many discussions with IBMers, high and low in rank, and with
>> teachers, in my opinion the most critical succes factor is to provide
>> training to the teachers in the schools. That really will proliferate the
>> AS/400 skills.
>
>After receiving this message from Mark, I got together with
>the rest of the
>PowerTech team and we decided that we would put our money
>where our mouths are
>and offer free education to AS/400 PIE instructors.
>Attached is a press
>release that Bryan Meyers has put out announcing our new
>"Teach the Teachers"
>program. If you have any question, please comment by return
>email or contact
>Bryan Meyers directly.
>
>jte
>
>
>
>=========================================
>Press Release
>
>For Immediate Release
>
>Date: 21 July 1999
>
>Contact: Bryan Meyers
>PowerTech Group
>555 Andover Park West, Suite 109
>Tukwila, WA 98188
>Phone: (206) 409-1747
>Toll free: (888) 282-9065
>Fax: (406) 651-8957
>E-mail: bmeyers@400school.com
>Website: www.400school.com
>
>
>PowerTech’s 400 School Offers Free “Teach the Teachers”
>AS/400 Education
>
>Seattle, Washington--
>Free AS/400 education is now available to qualified
>instructors from AS/400
>Partners in Education (PIE) schools, according to Bryan
>Meyers, vice president
>of Education for the PowerTech Group. PowerTech’s 400 School
>is a leading
>provider of AS/400 hands-on lab-style classes throughout
>North America.
> “As a service to the AS/400 community, and to promote
>AS/400 education in
>schools and colleges, The 400 School will offer available
>seats in its public
>classes at no cost to any instructor from a PIE
>institution,” said Meyers.
>The 400 School currently operates public classrooms in
>Seattle and Kansas City.
>The class topics include AS/400 Concepts and Facilities, RPG
>IV and ILE
>Programming, and AS/400 Security, as well as many others.
>The current public
>schedule is posted on PowerTech’s website at
>www.400school.com. Instructors are
>recognized AS/400 industry leaders, including John Carr,
>John Earl, Michael
>Kranz, Bryan Meyers, Dan Riehl, Ernie Wallace, and others.
>As well as public
>classes, The 400 School also performs customized private
>classes and seminars.
>PowerTech makes this free education offer to motivate
>schools and colleges to
>include the AS/400 in their curriculum. The most critical
>success factor to
>this end is to provide training to the teachers in those
>schools. Until now,
>schools or individual instructors would have to make a
>significant investment
>in education before they could proliferate those AS/400
>skills. PowerTech’s
>“free seat” policy greatly reduces that investment, and
>partners PIE
>institutions with AS/400 experts.
>PowerTech has been actively involved with the PIE program,
>working with Bates
>Technical College in Tacoma, Washington, and in the midwest
>with St. Louis
>Community Colleges on their AS/400 curriculum. PowerTech
>president Dan Riehl
>said, “Social responsibility is not a cliché at PowerTech.
>We feel that by
>providing this training to AS/400 educators, we will be
>bringing real benefit
>to the entire AS/400 community.”
>Education institutions can send as many instructors as often
>as needed, subject
>only to space availability. To qualify for this free offer,
>a PIE instructor
>need only contact Bryan Meyers at The 400 School, by phone
>(206) 409-1747, or
>by e-mail, bmeyers@400school.com.
>
>--30--
>
>=========================================
>
>
>--
>John Earl
>johnearl@powertechgroup.com
>The PowerTech Group 206-575-0711
>PowerLock Network Security www.400security.com
>The 400 School
>www.400school.com
>--
>
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