'Be Pro Be Proud' Launches in 4th State - Arkansas Business Online

The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce's "Be Pro Be Proud" workforce improvement inaugural has officially launched successful North Carolina, the program's 4th state. 

The program's 2 mobile workshops, which connection mediate and precocious schoolhouse students hands-on acquisition with skilled professions, began traveling the authorities earlier this month. The North Carolina Home Builders Educational & Charitable Foundation signed a declaration with the North Carolina Department of Labor successful February to administer the program, "Be Pro Be Proud NC."

Different enactment stations wrong the mobile workshops utilize virtual world exertion to let students to acquisition what it’s similar to usage an excavator, signifier welding, thrust a tractor trailer and enactment successful construction, among different activities. The mobile workshops were constructed by SPEVCO, a Winston-Salem-based company.

“We are excited for this programme to alteration the scenery of our workforce improvement successful North Carolina,” Tim Minton, enforcement vice president of the North Carolina Home Builders Association, said successful a quality release. “The aboriginal of method professions successful North Carolina relies connected our younker and investing successful their aboriginal is of the utmost value to us.”

"Be Pro Be Proud" besides operates successful Georgia and South Carolina.

In Arkansas, the programme has made much than 837 stops impacting 138,016 students astatine schools, two-year colleges, assemblage events, occupation fairs and businesses since it started successful 2016. The programme this twelvemonth received a $1.45 cardinal authorities assistance to fund construction of a 2nd mobile workshop. Officials said a 2nd mobile store was needed due to the fact that of the popularity of the first.

Randy Zook, president & CEO of the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce, said earlier this twelvemonth that "Be Pro Be Proud" would besides grow to Tennessee.