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Governor Baker to Hold Career Tech Initiative Roundtable Discussion at WTHS
Contact: Karen Hutner
Office of Institutional Communications
khutner [at] qcc.mass.edu
Release Date:
2/11/2020
WHAT: Roundtable Discussion will be held with:
- Governor Charlie Baker
- Lt. Governor Karyn Polito
- Massachusetts Secretary of Education James Peyser
- Massachusetts Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development, Rosalin Acosta
- Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development, Mike Kennealy
- Worcester Mayor Joseph Petty
- Worcester Superintendent of Schools, Maureen Binienda
- QCC President Dr. Luis Pedraja
- WTHS Principal Kyle Brenner
- Director of WTHS Night Life, Liz Tiley
- Six adult students who are currently in HVAC, plumbing and welding programs at WTHS
The goal of the Career Tech Initiative is to expand the capacity of vocational high schools by running three teaching shifts a day so that over the next four years more than 20,000 additional residents gain skills in the trades. Worcester Technical High School partners with Quinsigamond Community College, which runs the HVAC evening program. Quinsigamond Community College received a $431,900 Skills Capital Grant to upgrade the equipment at the high school to run the adult HVAC program. The HVAC program is a credit-bearing certificate program run by QCC. The plumbing and welding programs are both workforce credential programs that aligns to the Career Tech Initiative and future apprenticeships.
WHEN: Wednesday, February 12, 2020; 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Worcester Technical High School, 1 Skyline Drive, Worcester, MA. 01605 (event begins with a tour of the HVAC shop- entrance on the side of the building, just beyond the skywalk)
For more information, contact Josh Martin, Director of Institutional Communications at 508.854.7513 or jmartin [at] qcc.mass.edu
Quinsigamond Community College is the most affordable higher education in Worcester County. As a regional leader in education and workforce development, QCC serves the diverse educational needs of Central Massachusetts by providing affordable, accessible, and high quality programming leading to transfer, career, and lifelong learning.