Special Presentations

Special Presentation: North Central Appalachia’s Manufacturing Future Story Map

Thanks to ReImagine Appalachia’s Wendy Patton and Bikash Gupta for joining this past Monday National Call to describe their excellent work investigating and visualizing North Central Appalachia’s current industrial strengths, and how that ecosystem of support might leverage existing capabilities to participate in new and advance industries! Be sure to review their recently released Story Map that dives into this topic, and connect with ReImagine Appalachia directly if you are in the region or wish to collaborate further to the benefit of Appalachian manufacturers.

ReImagine Appalachia website

STORY MAP: NORTH CENTRAL APPALACHIA: BUILT FOR THE CLEAN ECONOMY.

David Van Siclen, Project Operations Director

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