Building a talent base to drive prosperity

The Metro Denver (Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development) WIRED Initiative is a partnership among industry, workforce, education, and economic development in the nine-county Metro Denver region.

WIRED and its partners are implementing transformational and sustainable changes in our education and workforce systems to enhance our region’s global competitiveness. WIRED is strengthening the talent pipeline at all levels to produce a workforce skilled in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to support the employment needs of the region’s fast-growing industries with labor shortages and high-wage jobs – aerospace, bioscience, energy, and information technology-software.

Funded partially by a four-year, $15 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, WIRED has invested in 27 programs that enhance partnerships among business, education, and the public workforce system, as well as promote STEM education in our schools. WIRED also continues to build upon existing partnerships and to leverage public and private funding to sustain its work well beyond the life of the grant.

A more thorough description of Metro Denver WIRED and the national WIRED initiative can be found here.