•The Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce June events:
President's Lunch will be noon-1 p.m. Tuesday at Club Soda, 235 E. Superior St. Guest will be Bob Taylor, president and CEO of Do it Best Corp. Host will be Mike Landram, Chamber president. Cost is $25 and includes price of the meal. Meet Me @ 5: Catalyst Marketing
Design will be 5-7 p.m. June 21. Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman's sixth annual Advancing Hoosier Women in Business will be 10 a.m.-2 p.m. June 22 at the Chamber building, 826 Ewing St. Speakers will be Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman and Deputy Chief Dottie Davis from the Fort Wayne Police Department. Cost is $25 and includes lunch and the entire program. For more information, go online to fwchamber.org/hoosierwomen. Unless otherwise stated, all events will be held at the Chamber building, 826 Ewing St. For details, call Liz Struckholz at 424-1435, Ext 259 or email lstruckholz@ fwchamber.org.
•Apartment Association of Fort Wayne-NE Indiana June Breakfast Connection will be 8 a.m. Tuesday at Hall's Guesthouse, 1313 W. Washington Center Road. Speaker will be Andrea Hatfield of the Rescue Mission. Topic will be the Charis House for Women and Children and the Restoration House for Men. Owners and managers of rental housing and suppliers are encouraged to attend. The meeting is open to the public and any parties interested in membership. Cost is $5 per person. Register online at www.aafw.org/ or call 482-2916.
•U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman and IPFW are co-sponsoring a job fair noon-4 p.m. Wednesday in the Walb Student Union International Ballroom. About 60 employers will have booths at the job fair. An interview training session will be held 11 a.m.-noon in Rooms 114-116 of Walb Student Union. For more information, job seekers may contact Daniel Harman in Stutzman's Fort Wayne office at 424-3041 or at Daniel.harman@mail.house.gov.
•Export University Seminar will be 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday at the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce, 826 Ewing St. The seminar is sponsored by the Commercial Service Division of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Local co-sponsors include Northeast Indiana Small Business Development Center, the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce, the city of Fort Wayne, the Small Business Administration and the Indiana District Export Council. Corporate sponsors are FedEx and Fifth Third Bank. Cost is $65 per person and includes morning and afternoon refreshments, lunch, a copy of The Basic Guide to Exporting, seminar materials, and a certificate. For more information call Mark Cooper at 1-317-582-2300, email mark.cooper@ trade.gov or through the ITA website at www.ita.doc.gov under the Trade Topics/Events/Seminars tab.
•Indiana Tech will host a recruitment fair for the Ohio State Highway Patrol 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday in Andorfer Commons on the university's Fort Wayne campus. The highway patrol will be hiring about 270 new troopers within the next year. Two troopers from the Van Wert highway patrol post will be available to discuss job openings, take applications, and interview candidates. For more information, contact Sgt. Jonathon Gray, 1-419-238-3055 or at jgray@dps.state.oh.us.
•Service Corps of Retired Executives will meet at 9:30 a.m. June 19 at Andorfer Commons board room at Indiana Tech campus. Speaker will be Robert Clark of Northeast Indiana Innovation Center. Board meeting will precede Clark's address, and regular membership meeting will follow at 10:30 a.m.
CLASSES
•ExecuTrain, Outlook 2010 Intermediate and Word 2010 Advance will be Tuesday. Excel 2010 Basic, PowerPoint 2007 Advance and Crystal Reports 2008 Basic will be Wednesday. Illustrator CS4 Advance will be Wednesday-Thursday. Publisher 2010 Advance and Word 2007 Intermediate will be Thursday. Access 2010 Intermediate and Dreamweaver CS4 Advance will be Thursday-Friday. Project 2010 Advance and Act! 2009 Advance will be Friday. Excel 2007 Intermediate will be June 18. PowerPoint 2007 Basic will be June 18. InDesign CS4 Advance will be July 18-19. Microsoft Office 2007 New Features will be June 19. Outlook 2007 Basic will be June 19. Publisher 2007 Basic will be June 19. Flash CS4 Basic will be June 19-20. Windows 7 Advance will be June 20. Excel 2003 Basic will be June 20. Visio 2010 Basic will be June 20. Project Management Advance will be June 20. Project 2010 Basic will be June 21. Access 2007 Intermediate will be June 21-22. Excel Visual Basic will be June 21-22. Photoshop CS4 Advance will be June 21-22. Access Visual Basic will be June 21-22. Word 2010 Basic will be June 22. Daytime classes are 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Evening classes are available 6-9 p.m. Costs include all courseware. Corporate pricing available. To register, call 432-9077. For information, visit www.etfortwayne.com
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ExecuTrain offers free phone support on topics covered in classes taken and a free refresher course. Instructors are professionally trained and certified in the classes they instruct. ExecuTrain provides onsite training and private classes. Room rentals are available 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, with extended hours available on request. Rates are as low as $450 a day. Rooms are equipped with eight to 12 student workstations, instructor station, projector and screen, dry-erase board, free wireless Internet access and complimentary coffee. ExecuTrain's Administrative Professional Program classes are afternoon and evening, four days a week for six weeks. Learn Windows 7, Office 2007 and 2010, QuickBooks and more. Financing and free job-placement assistance are available. For more information, call 432-9077.
•IPFW Division of Continuing Studies, 2101 Coliseum Blvd. E.: Business Management Courses: Financial Statements: Learning to Read and Use Financial Information will be 6-8:30 p.m. Tuesday and June 19. Cost: $55. CEU: 0.5. How To Start A Business Workshop will be 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Cost: $25. Interpersonal
and Workplace Conflict Management Skills will be 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Friday. Cost: $115. CEU: 0.35. Computer Technology Courses: HTML 4.0 Basic will be 6-8:15 p.m. Wednesday through July 11. Cost: $152. CEU: 0.9. For information for full course descriptions, visit http://learn.ipfw.edu or to register, call 481-6619.
•Ivy Tech Corporate College, North Campus, 4900 Saint Joe Road: OSHA 10 hour will be 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday. Cost: $249. Microsoft Excel 2007 Intermediate will be 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday. Cost: $159. Most classes offer CEU certificates. There are no tests or grades given. There are no registration deadlines. If there are openings, you may register the first day of class, though textbooks may not be immediately available. To register, call 480-4118. Online classes also available, at http://ed2go.com/ivytechfw
. Learn in the comfort of your own home. At the website, click on Online Courses.
