FOR CTE DEANS, PROGRAM CHAIRS & APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING DIRECTORS
See where immersive training fits your program — before you spend a dollar on it.
We build a free, two-page Program Brief for your specific program: the courses where VR earns its place, what a pilot would look like, and how it lines up with the funding you already have. No pitch. No platform sales. A clear read on fit.
We’re the integrator, not the platform.
There are dozens of VR training platforms. Each one will happily sell you a license and a stack of headsets. None of them will tell you which parts of your curriculum actually justify immersive training, which platforms fit those specific competencies, or how to stand the whole thing up without adding work to your faculty's plate.
That's the work we do. We map your program's real course catalog to the best-fit, vetted platforms, coordinate the vendors, handle the implementation, and hand your IT team a finished deployment. Because we work across many platforms instead of being tied to one, the recommendation follows what fits your courses — not whichever product pays the most to place it. Our value is the fit and the implementation.
A clear path from question to pilot.
You don't have to commit to anything to find out whether this is worth your time. Here's the sequence.
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Program Brief Free
A focused, two-page read on your program: the three-to-five courses where immersive training has the highest payoff, why each one, and a plain-language picture of what a pilot would look like. No getting lost in product pitches or pricing — just an honest fit assessment you can forward to a colleague and look good doing it.
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Discovery Call Free45–60 min
We talk through your program goals, any headsets or labs you already have, your funding landscape, and who inside the institution would champion this. This is where a brief becomes a real plan.
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Full Program Blueprint $4,900 · credited back
A complete implementation blueprint — curriculum alignment, platform recommendations by function, implementation roles, and an investment summary formatted so you can forward it internally. The fee is credited in full against your pilot if you move forward within 120 days. You pay for the depth and expertise; you get it back when you pilot.
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Live Demo 30 min · hands in headsets
We bring the kit to your campus (or host you at ours). Your faculty try the actual scenarios. This is the step that turns a document into a decision.
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Pilot Scope of Work
A formal pilot proposal — scope, timeline, and a leased HEROES equipment package so you don’t buy a single headset to run the pilot. This is where the numbers and the signatures live. Everything before it is a conversation.
Most people start at the top of this ladder with one free Program Brief. You can too.
This is built to fit the money you already have.
- Strong Workforce Program (SWP)
- Perkins V
- California Apprenticeship Initiative (CAI)
- Apprenticeship Innovation Funding (AIF)
The most common reason a good idea stalls isn't skepticism — it's the budget question. So we build every recommendation around California's actual funding mechanisms, and we appear where these dollars are designed to be spent: as contracted services, professional development, or software licensing. You hold and apply for the funds; we're the line item, never the grantee.
For community colleges, the Strong Workforce Program (SWP) local and regional shares routinely fund exactly this category — contracted services, professional development, and software licenses — and districts spend on a tight annual clock. Perkins V fits where immersive training improves a CTE program rather than merely maintaining it, which is precisely how we scope a pilot. For apprenticeship pathways, the California Apprenticeship Initiative (CAI) funds training delivery and curriculum inside implementation and expansion budgets, and Apprenticeship Innovation Funding (AIF) puts per-apprentice dollars directly in a training director's hands for exactly this kind of tool. We time our briefs to your grant calendar so the money exists before the conversation gets serious — and if you're not sure which mechanism applies to you, that's one of the first things we'll sort out together.
We've already built one of these.
HEROES operates the ARIEIL VR career-training lab at American River College — a first-of-its-kind immersive lab embedded in a live CTE program, not a demo room. The brief-to-pilot pipeline you're reading about isn't a concept. It's the same sequence we ran to stand up ARIEIL: map the curriculum, choose the right platforms, remove the faculty burden, hand off a working deployment. This page is that process, packaged for your program.
“HEROES didn’t just build the lab—they made sure our team knew how to use it, support it, and scale it. They’re still our first call.”
— Heidi, Faculty Lead, American River College
Start with the free read.
Tell us a little about your program and we'll build your two-page brief — no cost, no obligation, no sales call disguised as a favor. Worst case, you get an expert's honest take on where immersive training does and doesn't fit your courses. Best case, it's the start of something your faculty will thank you for.
Request your free Program Brief
Two pages. Program-specific. No cost. We'll follow up to schedule a short discovery call.