We prepare young Baltimoreans who aren't heading to college for the industries the city has said it's growing, one proven workshop at a time.
The Baltimore Development Corporation has published the innovation sectors it is growing. Universities supply the degreed talent. But a young person who isn't one of the region's 140,000 college students has no route in.
N.E.W. is that route. We use the city's own priorities as our syllabus.
We treat every workshop like a product. It runs for one quarter, gets tested with two cohorts, gets measured, and earns its next version. Or it doesn't, and we've risked one quarter instead of a year.
↻ What hiring partners say at the showcase becomes next quarter's input.
Each workshop proves a single skill that makes a client worth hiring. Hiring partners confirm it before we teach it.
Clients work to a brief from a real organization. Every client leaves with a finished piece for their portfolio and resume.
Cohort 1 comes back to mentor Cohort 2. Teaching deepens their mastery, and the workshop grows without adding staff.
Every business and nonprofit in South Baltimore needs content, and most can't make enough of it. In this workshop, clients take a brief from a real local organization and deliver finished work by its deadline. They make what was asked for, not a class project.
Take a real organization's brief and deliver a finished, publish-ready short video or post set on deadline.
Their own backlog, their own Kanban board, their own retrospectives, and a build running on a headset at the end. It was documented well enough that a funder could audit it and another instructor could run it again. That's the method N.E.W. is built on.
Our team works on Space For All, a National Science Foundation project run at the Tech Lab with Dr. Foad Hamidi at UMBC. It studies how to make maker spaces accessible and inclusive for neurodiverse and differently abled learners.
Every N.E.W. workshop is designed with what that research found, so a workforce pathway works for more young people.
You tell us the skill you can't find. You see the work at the showcase and decide whether it's good enough.
You deliver the workshop. We bring the cycle, the measurement, and a room full of clients who want to be there.
You're not heading to college, and you want a real way in. Six weeks, one skill, and work you can show an employer.
We only claim what we've measured. Every workshop proves the skill landed before anyone talks about jobs.
Measured every quarter, from the start
On the roadmap, added one at a time
We're lining up hiring partners, education partners, and our first cohort now. Tell us who you are and we'll be in touch.