Solar Corps offers more instructional opportunities By: Daily Reporter Staff May 20, 2021
10:39 am
The Midwest Renewable Energy Association’s Solar Corps initiative has extended its partnerships to 10 technical and community colleges in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Solar Corps helps these colleges establish career pathways for students interested in working in renewable energy, one of the fastest growing job areas in the Midwest. As the need for qualified solar professionals grows, MREA’s Solar Corps works with colleges to connect students and recent graduates with real-work experience with solar contractors, and provides those contractors the opportunity to connect with qualified employees.
Participating Solar Corps technical and colleges include Chippewa Valley Technical College, Lakeshore Technical College, Madison Area Technical College, Mid-State Technical College, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and Western Technical College, in Wisconsin. For more info
Justin Baker, Chippewa Valley Technical Collegeâs Supply Chain Management instructor and program director, realizes many people have little idea what the âsupply chainâ term means, even as the 2-year-old program graduates its first class of students May 21.
âPeople are learning about supply chain. They may not have thought about it until they ran out of toilet paper,â he said, recalling the shortage during the early days of the pandemic. The shortage, industry analysts said, had more to do with supply chain than hoarding.
Local market demand drove CVTCâs decision to start Supply Chain Management. While many people are working in related areas like purchasing and inventory control, businesses need people who can manage the logistics involved in the entire supply chain process, according to Baker.
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