{"version":"1.0.0","episode":{"title":"Proactively Growing the Industry’s Technician Pipeline","url":"http://getcarcurious.com/episodes/proactively-growing-the-industry-s-technician-pipeline","audioUrl":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/940384/episodes/18299210-proactively-growing-the-industry-s-technician-pipeline.mp3","description":"Lew Olivier, Director of Outreach at the MN State Transportation Center of Excellence, joins us to discuss growing the next generation of technicians. Lew explains how events like Nitro-X spark student interest in technical careers, what shops can do as a first step to get involved with schools, and how small actions today can have a lasting impact on the technician workforce.Check out the full video version of the podcast on YouTube!About the EpisodeHost: Jay Goninen, WrenchWay, jayg@wrenchway.comGuest: Lew Olivier, MN State Transportation Center of Excellence, llewellyn.olivier@dctc.eduLinks & ResourcesGet notified of new episodes --> Join our email listNitro-X Summer CampsInvesting in the Future: Measuring Employer ROI in Early Talent DevelopmentAbout WrenchWay:For Technicians & Students: wrenchway.com/solutions/technicians/For Shops & Dealerships: wrenchway.com/solutions/shops/For Instructors: wrenchway.com/solutions/schools/Connect with us on social:  Facebook Instagram X LinkedIn YouTube TikTok "},"annotations":[{"startTime":389.76,"endTime":395.84,"type":"car","title":"Buick Century","url":"/cars/buick/century","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/.00_1408_Buick_Century_1958.jpg","quote":"...the technical side when I was technical school at Century College, the local community college, which I kno...","canonicalId":"car:buick:century","priority":0.5,"confidence":1.0,"source":"fuzzy","data":{"imageAttribution":"W. Bulach (CC BY-SA 4.0)"}},{"startTime":3327.12,"endTime":3336.16,"type":"car","title":"Toyota RAV4","url":"/cars/toyota/rav4","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/2021_Toyota_RAV4_PHV.jpg","quote":"...on, let's de-energize. So I drive around the 2022 RAV4 Prime, which is the plug-in hybrid. And so we'll ...","canonicalId":"car:toyota:rav4","priority":0.5,"confidence":1.0,"source":"fuzzy","data":{"imageAttribution":"TTTNIS (CC0)"}}],"speakers":[{"id":"s1","name":"Jay Goninen","role":"host"}],"transcripts":[{"url":"http://getcarcurious.com/episodes/proactively-growing-the-industry-s-technician-pipeline/transcript.vtt","type":"text/vtt"}]}