Pays SmoothSynsations up to $21,600 for a fashion industry mentor at Oakland Tech's Fashion Academy

The district is paying SmoothSynsations up to $21,600 for a fashion industry mentor who assists Career Technical Education fashion courses at Oakland Technical High School. The mentor helps develop a business incubator or student-based enterprise and projects that use industry equipment. The period is September 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023, and it began before the Board vote.

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Vendor / partner: SmoothSynsations · Oakland, CA
Action: New agreement
Category: Classroom & academic programs
Term: Sep 1, 2022 – Jun 30, 2023
This vote: $21,600
Schools: Oakland Technical High School
Funding: Riverside Community College
Resource / site: 6385-305
Vendor no.: 007633
Presented by: Chief Academic Officer
File: 22-2813 · agenda I.-42
Outcome: Adopted on the General Consent Report, Jan 17, 2023

Official text

Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2022-2023 by and between the District and SmoothSynsations, Oakland, CA, for the latter to provide Fashion Industry Mentor” (Consultant) to assist in Career Technical Education for Introduction to Fashion Design, Fashion Design History and Fashion Marketing courses by developing the piloting for a business incubator or Student Based Enterprise (SBE) and developing projects for students, with high-speed electronic and technological fashion industry equipment (Epson Sure color Dye Sublimation Printer, Brother Scan and Cutter, Juki 8 Needle Computerized Embroidery, Autograph Wall and Canvas Reproduction Projector, Schacht Textile Floor Loom) mixed medium production and more, via the Fashion Academy at Oakland Technical High School, for the period of September 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023, in an amount not to exceed $21,600.00.

History

Jan 11, 2023 Postponed to a Date Certain
Jan 17, 2023 Adopted on the General Consent Report

Also on the agenda: Jan 11, 2023

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