Pueblo Community College announced the creation of a new chapter for the Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education (FAME) on Monday during a press conference.
FAME, a national organization that provides technical training to students interested in manufacturing, has 37 chapters across the United States. The organization has an 85% job placement rate nationally for students in the program. They will have a lot of hands-on labs in electrical systems, mechanical systems, fluid power, hydraulics, lots of soft skills and professional development, said Jennifer Sherman, PCC s dean of business and advanced technology. They re going to be mentored, working three days a week and making a very good wage for a manufacturer who is sponsoring them.
Pueblo County gives more scholarship money than ever before, pulling funds from marijuana tax
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and last updated 2021-02-02 19:56:08-05
PUEBLO â Pueblo County is able to provide more scholarship funds than ever before.
$1.95 million are going to help students afford college education this springs, as a result of pulling from excise tax of marijuana sales.
These scholarship funds would usually only go to the Pueblo Hispanic Education Foundation and allow them to provide students with money. This time around, the county accepted applications for more distributors.
âWe felt that if we opened it up for entities to apply, we were going to have fresh ideas, a lot of innovation and those dollars would be competed for and weâd have some really good places to award, said Pueblo County Commissioner Garrison Ortiz.
An initiative launched in September to provide $32.7 million to K-12 schools in Colorado has received a new influx of funds, with some designated for the Pueblo Community College thanks to an innovative plan for students to earn targeted college credits prior to graduating high school.
Pueblo Community College has been given about $2 million during this second round of grants to develop a San Louis Valley network, with hopes of expanding statewide, to provide rural students the same educational opportunities a city-based student would have.
The goal is to allow a class taught with a virtual component at any institution in the state to then also be offered through the virtual component to any student in the state, but will specifically help rural students, especially in Hispanic communities.
A second round of Response, Innovation and Student Equity Fund grants has been awarded to Colorado school districts, charter schools and colleges to address learning challenges related to the impact