Inside IALR

About Inside IALR

Inside IALR explores the ways that the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) catalyzes economic transformation. Listen for a behind-the-scenes view of how our programs, people and partnerships are impacting Southern Virginia and beyond. Host Caleb Ayers and Producer Daniel Dalton interview someone new every episode, introducing listeners to IALR leaders and partners, promoting programs and highlighting opportunities to connect with us. New episodes are published every other Monday.

Publisher

Institute for Advanced Learning and Research

Category

government · science · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Jun 2023

Latest episode

28 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

9 of 69 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   From 3 Schools to 84: The GO TEC Story

   Host Caleb Ayers interviews Telly Tucker, Dr. Melanie Lewis, and Jake Taylor about GO TEC's journey from three schools to 84, building a robust technology and engineering career pipeline for students.

2. 

   24 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Four Months That Changed a Life: an ATDM Experience

   How Carrie Williams Used ATDM to Build a New Career and a New Future What do you do when life forces you to start over? For Carrie Williams, the answer was taking a chance on herself. After a divorce left her searching for a more stable future, Carrie relocated from Ohio to Virginia to attend the Accelerated Training in Defense Manufacturing (ATDM) program. Four months later, she graduated from the non-destructive testing track and began a new career inspecting critical infrastructure and sup...

3. 

   27 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Intern Roundtable: Career Lessons From the IALR Internship Experience

   President Telly Tucker and Dr. John Hughes interview four IALR summer interns about their career lessons and growth during the internship experience.

Inside a recent episode

From 3 Schools to 84: The GO TEC Story

Published 28 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And how could we do it in a way that was meaningful, that was age appropriate, that would deliver material? and a way that will resonate with them based on where they are in terms of their cognitive growth. And so this idea that you could structure a program using the same competencies, the same industry competencies that are taught at the community college level, but that you could design a curriculum that would be age appropriate for middle school students to expose them to the same one such that it would be a continuum where they start in middle school and then when they get to high school and continue on, that it would be, they would build on those skills and competencies that they'd learned in middle school. […]

Who has been a guest on Inside IALR

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Melanie Lewis
• Jake Taylor
• Four summer interns
• Cedric Bond
• Ethan Bond

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

218,048

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

68

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

60

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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