ALEX: The Alabama Experience, a mobile exhibit featuring interactive kiosks with informational about Alabama, premiered at The Regions World Games Plaza on Thursday.
The exhibit provides a personification of the state through technology, powered by Atlas RFID Solutions. It aims to offer visitors an inside look at careers and educational opportunities available within the state as well as information on cost of living and attractions.
The exhibit features a virtual reality experience. It showcases industrial, interactive robots playing Korfball, motion capture suites displaying athletic movement and more.
For individuals interested in finding work in Alabama, there will be an option to be matched to specific industries and introduced electronically to representatives. Visitors will be exposed to 189 different career paths in the state.
Mike Oatridge, founder and coordinator of ALEX, developed the exhibit in an effort to promote positive features of the state.
“The World Games is a fantastic venue for The Alabama Experience or ALEX to showcase all that Alabama has to offer. We’ll have about 500,000 people coming to watch the games and participants from over 100 different countries,” Oatridge said in a release. “By focusing on information technology, advanced manufacturing and health sciences jobs, we are going to be affecting about 40% of the unfilled jobs in the state and really focusing on the salaries available for people, but then show people what that value is within the state."
The Alabama Community College System, a sponsor of ALEX, will host representatives from Alabama’s 24 community and technical colleges to discuss opportunities with participants.
Atlas RFID Solutions serves as the technical user experience coordinator to provide planning, services and hardware required to deliver the kiosk-based career interaction showcase.
ALEX: The Alabama Experience will be open to the general public July 7-13, 1 p.m. – 8 p.m.; July 14, 1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. and July 15-17, 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. The air-conditioned ALEX tent will be located at the corner of Ninth Avenue North and Richard Arrington Junior Boulevard.
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