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ACRONYMS
100

Although this word is often used as a verb, it is also a noun referring to the bead of metal used to join two pieces of metal.

Weld

100

A computer-generated immersive world which airs unscripted television shows including Survivor and Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

Virtual Reality TV

100

This piece of legistlation is designed to boost U.S. competitiveness, innovation, and national security with $280B in investments to create semiconductors domestically.

The CHIPS and Science Act

100

Flu preventative robot

Vaccine Machine

100

These letters commonly refer to the category of smart sensors and machines used in a manufacturing process and connected through a web service. It's one letter longer than it's more commonly used non-business equal.

IIoS

200

The collected, organized information prepared for analysis.

Data

200

The South Central RVP's subscriber streaming service, brought to you by Tim Cook and the makers of the iPhone.

Emilie Apple TV

200

This was the musical in which your host, Jon Meyer, while a freshman in high school played the part of Jacey Squires, a town councilmember who sang in an unexpected barbershop quartet. His older brother, James Meyer, starred as Harold Hill.

The Music Man
200

This Marty McFly ride-on's basic computer component.

Hoverboard Motherboard

200

These two shortest of acronyms refer to both a fully immersive visual experience and an overlay of computer-generated images over a real world environment...in that order.

VR and AR

300

This is the manufacturing segment which has significant exposure related to two other four-letter words: fire and dust.

Wood

300

A cyber attack involving a demand for money becomes this famous globe-trotting video game from the 80s and 90s, which also spawned a kids game show.

Ransomeware in the World is Carmen Sandiego.

300

This funding bill, signed into law in August of 2022, focuses over $500B into the U.S. economy with investments in healthcare and clean energy, among other sectors.

The Inflation Reduction Act

300

This "Your Body is a Wonderland" singer's belt & roller driven product movement system.

John Mayer's Conveyors

300
This cyber safeguard is considered one of the most effective ways to protect against system breaches attempted during the login process.

MFA

400
The only Commercial Accounts RUO from the South Central region whose first name fits in this category.

Hali

400

The character who goes by "Heisenberg" in Breaking Bad becomes the subject of a issued informational document.

Walter Whitepaper

400

The $1.2B Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act includes the largest investment ever in this public passenger rail company.

Amtrak

400

The delivery of water to crops controlled by technology.

Irrigation Automation

400

Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors...and Science

CHIPS

500

In pop culture, it can mean "a shortcut to save time or money"; in cyber security, it's an attempt to breach a network.

Hack

500

The network connecting raw material suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and customers in this 1967 Aretha Franklin hit.

Supply Chain of Fools

500

This is the percentage of South Central's Commercial Accounts Group Account Executives who completed all of the Advanced Manufacturing Lessonly prework.

100%

500

This material used in electrical components which partially conducts electricity becomes the person directing the orchestra at THE premier television awards ceremony.

Semiconductor Emmy Conductor

500

This system, composed of tags and readers, can be used to track and identify objects in everything from an entry door to a factory floor to a video game enhancement.

RFID