Quality jobs can be landed in design across many industries

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FIRST WE WALK 
Telli Quinn ended her nine-month IYRS computer design program by interning at prototype design firm Empire Group in Attleboro, which just offered her an assistant designer position. IYRS uses hands-on projects to understand the connection between design and fabrication. / Courtesy IYRS School of Technology and Trade
FIRST WE WALK 
Telli Quinn ended her nine-month IYRS computer design program by interning at prototype design firm Empire Group in Attleboro, which just offered her an assistant designer position. IYRS uses hands-on projects to understand the connection between design and fabrication. / Courtesy IYRS School of Technology and Trade
There is a big demand for young people in the manufacturing sector for sure. But some of those jobs are not about making products, they are about designing them, says Jessica David, executive vice president of strategy and community investments at the Rhode Island Foundation, which in 2013 funded the creation of DesignxRI, a nonprofit…

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