Marlborough – Executive Director Steven C. Sharek is pleased to announce that several member schools of the Massachusetts Professional Administrators Association (MAVA) have received grants from the state’s latest round of Workforce Skills Capital Grant Program.
Marlborough – Executive Director Steven C. Sharek is pleased to announce that several member schools of the Massachusetts Professional Administrators Association (MAVA) have received grants from the state’s latest round of Workforce Skills Capital Grant Program.
A total of 11 MAVA schools received up to $3.3 million as part of the second round of FY22 funding announced this week by the Baker-Polito government.
Since 2015, 407 grants totaling more than $105.5 million have been awarded to 207 different schools and educational institutions in the Commonwealth, with many organisations receiving multiple grants over the years.The state’s investment also helped agencies use grants to secure an additional $25 million in local matching funds.
The funding comes from February, which is nationally recognized as CTE month.This month is an opportunity to celebrate the values and achievements of CTE programs and the work they do.
The school will upgrade and expand the program to support adults enrolling in new career technology initiatives and improve access for high school students.The equipment includes light and heavy duty sheet metal layout and fabrication, as well as structural steel welding using GMAW, GTAW, SMAW, PAC, CNC plasma and oxy/fuel cutting processes.Students will practice and prepare to take the American Welding Society Structural Welding Certification Test as well as the Structural Sheet Metal Welding Specification Test.
Blackrock Valley Vocational Area School District, Upton – $225,000 (heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration)
Schools will purchase air purification systems, boilers, furnaces, building automation workstations, line packs, and more.Students graduate with OSHA 10 and EPA Core certificates.
Students will have the opportunity to earn their certified Nursing Assistant, First Aid, CPR, Dementia Care, Home Health Aide and OSHA 10 certification.High school day students will be able to participate in the Health Assistance Program, and there will be additional health care options for adults in the NightHawks Adult Education Program and for high school students after dark.
Schools will upgrade their rigs with MIGs and Sticks, Disc Sanders, Horizontal and Vertical Bandsaws, Flat Roll Models, Live ARC Systems, Rhino Carts, Beveling Machines, Drill Presses, Hand Tools, Storage, Welding Stations, Dual Pipe Feeders WELD.The programme is designed to provide robust evening courses to help fill jobs in the local industrial sector.
Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical High School, Lexington – $150,000 (robotics and automation)
The school will expand access to existing robotics and automation programs, including Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and augmented reality (AR).The new facility will feature a modern automated warehouse that will serve as a learning laboratory for robotics and automation, logistics automation engineering/militia supply chain management students, as well as a training center for the partner college and the Minuteman Technical Institute (MTI).
Each workstation will be equipped with downdraft technology, which will help students learn ventilation when making, impressing and finishing stone modelling.Day and evening students will earn OSHA 10 Hour Healthcare and American Red Cross CPR certifications and will have the opportunity to earn two Dental Assisting National Board (DANB) certifications – Infection Control and Radiology.
The school will modernize equipment including stamping presses, overpressure and threading machines, inventory and tool management systems, furnaces, hot water tanks, heat pumps and boilers.Students graduate with 1,700 hours and a Level 2 code to earn a Journeyman License, Master Plumber License, and OSHA 10 Construction Certification.
The school will update the kitchen and student-run dining room, providing students with training and use of industry-standard equipment.Day and evening students will explore and develop the skills of entrepreneurs, chefs and hospitality workers.Students will receive ServSafe certification training and OSHA10 food service certification.
The school will upgrade engineering technology to meet the needs of advanced manufacturing.The school will purchase a variety of sophisticated equipment for use in manufacturing, engineering and construction workplaces.These include Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Laser Etchers/Cutters, CNC Lathes, CNC Mills, Measurement Tools, Robotic Equipment, Industrial Electrical Control Trainers and Advanced Laptops that support 3D Modeling and other demanding software such as AutoCad, Autodesk Inventor, Revit and LabVIEW.
The school will purchase 2 Proto TRAK KMX CNC Upgrades, 6 Proto TRAK KMX2 Retrofit Bridgeport Series, 4 Haas Minimills, 2 TouchView Interactive Displays and 9 Lathe 2 Axis Digital Readout Systems.Students in this program engage in work-based learning through the school’s collaborative learning in area manufacturing enterprises.
The school will create a Maritime Services Technology course for day and evening students.The program will be able to provide this STEM-based educational opportunity to high school students as well as unemployed, displaced, veterans, or working individuals looking to further their careers through our evening school program.
A focus of recent grants is the launch and expansion of the Governor’s Career Technical Initiative, which supports career technical schools in expanding their reach by providing programs for local high school students in the afternoon and workers and adult learners in the evening.
From June 2017 through August 2021, the Massachusetts Skills Capital Grant Program has awarded $30,694,090 to career technical and agricultural schools/programs.
“We are grateful for the Baker-Polito government’s continued support of vocational and technical education,” said Director Sharek.”This funding will help our member schools in a number of ways through different programs and will allow our students to gain valuable hands-on experience and prepare them for important industry certifications.”
The Skills Capital Grant was awarded by Governor Baker’s Workforce Skills Cabinet, which was established in 2015 to bring together the Education, Labor and Workforce Development and Housing and Economic Development Secretariats to coordinate education, economic development and workforce policy, to develop strategies around how to meet the demand for skilled workers by employers across the Commonwealth.
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Post time: Feb-18-2022