MOULTRIE – The Georgia AIM Mobile Studio made a stop at Colquitt County High School on Thursday.
Teachers and students toured the new mobile studio, which was touring the state to showcase how a wide range of organizations, including public schools, manufacturers, and technology startups, are using artificial intelligence.
Donna Ennis, co-director of Georgia AIM, said, “We didn’t build this studio to stay in Atlanta.”
The mobile studio had already visited a few cities before stopping in Moultrie and Ennis said that they were meeting everyone “where they were,” not only with the mobile studio but with the technology that students these days are familiar with already.
She said the goal was to enable both students and the workforce at large where they needed to be, especially in a fast-growing technological world.
“The way the technology is structured, we want it to be accessible for people,” she said and added that they wanted people from all walks of life to experience it.
Ennis said that it might make them think about how they could use the technology in their lives.
She also said that it would help the students who went through the Georgia AIM Mobile Studio realize that there are many jobs and careers out there in the manufacturing industry.
“We want to make manufacturing cool,” she said.
While in the mobile unit, students were given demonstrations in robotics, AI, drones, 3D printing, CNC milling and virtual reality technology, all shown with practical uses in manufacturing. The students seemed engaged and asked questions during the demonstrations and answered questions, based on what they had seen.
The students were also allowed to try some of the equipment at the stations like the VR headsets
Georgia Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing, funded by a $65 million federal Economic Development Administration Grant, was launched in September of 2022. It connects 16 projects across the state to develop a manufacturing workforce skilled in smart technologies and to deploy innovation in the manufacturing industry.
Also during the day, the Colquitt County High School showcased new virtual trainers aimed at giving students “real-life” experience in different areas related to job fields.
Tours inside the high school for members of the community highlighted two of the virtual trainers, the Anatomage Table and the Fire Science Simulator. The Heavy Equipment Operator Simulator was in the process of being installed at the school. The virtual trainers were purchased with Georgia AIM grant funds.