Employ Florida Banner Centers

The Employ Florida Banner Center for Digital Media’s focus is to ensure Florida has the capacity to grow the talent necessary to fuel its expanding digital media industry.

Started in 2008, the Banner Center for Digital Media is based at Seminole Community College’s new Center for Economic Development at Heathrow. The college is a recognized leader in information technology education and training.

The Banner Center’s mission is to impact Florida's economy by forging and strengthening relationships among industry, education, economic development and public workforce resources; collaboratively engaging them in a creative and innovative environment to address current and future workforce needs of the digital media industry; and helping to catalyze this sector’s competitiveness. Its objectives include: 

• Providing a pipeline of skilled workers, entry-level to advanced, for the digital media industry
• Ensuring Florida’s educational programs are relevant and meet the industry’s needs and standards
• Maximizing lifelong learning in settings demanded by today's marketplace

Digital media is a rapidly growing key industry in Florida. A recent survey by the Digital Media Alliance Florida identified about 25,000 companies in Florida’s digital media industry. The digital media industry payroll statewide exceeds $1 billion, and this emerging sector is poised to boost the state’s economy through continued growth in high-skill, high-wage jobs and total revenues through this decade and beyond.

Among those supporting the Banner Center, as partners or advisory council members are:

One of Florida’s newest Banner Centers, the Banner Center for Digital Media is focused on, among other things, developing a needs assessment for its targeted state sector that will better position the state to create a continuous pipeline of high-tech talent to meet the current and future demands for a strong digital media workforce.

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