Your college may purchase individual tickets to send participants to any of the FELIs listed below. The standard rate is $2200/person, or $440 per day. All FELIs offer an Early Bird discount of $250, or $2000/person, if registrations are made and payment arranged by the Early Bird Date for the event. We recommend that a group of faculty and administrators from your college attend a FELI together to obtain the maximum benefit for your school. The ACE Experiential Learning Institute (FELI) is five-day professional development experience designed for community college faculty, staff, and administrators. The FELI is an experiential workshop involving more than fifty exercises and activities. These activities include but are not limited to large group discussion, small group sharing and presentations, movement activities, role-playing and reflection. ACE structures the activities to create a community of learners, and asks that all attendees be prepared to participate fully as active learners. We use many different pedagogical techniques to allow for learning and growth in unexpected ways, as well as, to keep participants fully engaged throughout the day. We ask that participants attend each day in full as each exercise builds on the previous one and rapport is built within the group as the days unfold. Each FELI group is capped at 25 participants to ensure time for each participant to be heard.

The FELI workshop challenges participants in many ways:

• You will be asked to closely examine reality versus your perceptions in the areas of working styles, listening abilities and communications techniques.
• You will experience the difference between outside-in learning and inside-out learning.
• You will be asked to practice authentic communication and understand the value of self-awareness and self-disclosure as vehicles for the transformation of education.

The Ocean Wave Workshop (OWW) is focused on the use of technologies to support operations impacted by waves, tides, and shallow water processes. The 2015 OWW will explore recent advances in using wave information to assess sediment transport. Attendees will share & discuss lessons learned and scenarios encountered that relate to scour, erosion, accretion, wave slamming, and near shore currents. This event provides a forum for scientists, engineers, and managers to explore issues relevant to waves.

Science Cafes are free, informal public events designed to give the public an opportunity to explore contemporary science issues with a practicing scientist or researcher. Citizen scientists are changing the way science gets done, and the Internet is changing the way citizen scientists can get involved with new projects and expand their skills. Darlene Cavalier is the founder of Scistarter, an online citizen science community that collaborates with scientists to tackle formal and informal research projects. She also founded Science Cheerleader, working with cheerleaders pursuing science and technology careers to promote involvement of citizens in science and science policy.

The Dream !t Do !t Central Minnesota VEX Robotics Tournament is part of a series of VEX Robotics competitions taking place internationally throughout the year, and offers teams an opportunity to apply their STEM skills while developing their teamwork, leadership, and project management skills. This is one of three VEX tournaments in Minnesota. At each tournament, the Excellence Award Winner will receive an invitation to the World Championships.

The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) 21st Annual Workforce Development Institute (WDI) will be held at the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront from January 29–February 1, 2014.

This year, WDI will challenge you to view workforce and economic development from new perspectives. Community college, industry, government and community leaders and doers will share fresh ideas, out-of-the-box approaches, and unconventional solutions. We have scanned the horizon for engaging speakers and outstanding networking opportunities to help you leverage resources and build capacity.

For a sample of the sessions, speakers, and events at WDI 2014, you can review the informational brochure [PDF].