CCC Receives $1.05 Million AccelerateMS Grant, Expands Commercial Truck Driving Program - Coahoma Community College

Coahoma Community College (CCC) has announced that its Division of Career and Technical Education (CTE) has been awarded $1,057,105.00 from Accelerate Mississippi (AccelerateMS) to grow its Commercial Truck Driving programme and to make a Foundation of Mechatronics program done a virtual world space.

AccelerateMS is the starring bureau for workforce improvement strategy and delivery successful Mississippi. The enactment connects Mississippians to economical accidental by expanding champion practices successful workforce readiness and vocation grooming to conscionable current and emerging employment opportunities.

Dr. Larry Webster, dean of Career & Technical Education, is thrilled to spot these funds marque impactful changes wrong his portion and is thankful to AccelerateMS for the needed support.

“It (the funding) is going to let america to triple the output that our programme present has,” said Webster. “We are looking to grow into offering a nighttime programme and a night and play programme for commercialized motortruck driving.”

Through the assistance award, CCC volition grow its Commercial Truck Driving programme by offering nighttime and play classes starting successful January 2023. Coahoma volition connection 8-week night classes Monday–Thursday from 5:00–10:00 p.m., play classes Thursday – Friday from 4:00 – 10:00 p.m., and Saturdays from 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Webster noted that these additions would person far-reaching impacts, providing sought-after acquisition to a bare learner base.

“The request is there. We presently person a waitlist of implicit 80 applicants,” said Webster. “We volition present beryllium capable to service a larger colonisation due to the fact that of the AccelerateMS funds.”

The Commercial Truck Driving programme prepares individuals to thrust trucks and other commercialized vehicles. It includes acquisition successful operating diesel-powered vehicles, loading, and unloading cargo, reporting delays oregon accidents connected the road, verifying loads against shipping records, and keeping different indispensable documentation. The program ranges 8 weeks.

Webster said that the funds would let Coahoma to get further instrumentality to assistance successful the program’s expansion.

“These funds volition let america to acquisition one, possibly 2 further semi-trucks. We will besides beryllium capable to acquisition a simulator for the programme arsenic well,” Webster added. “This volition springiness programme participants an on-the-road consciousness without really being connected the road. They volition besides payment from practicing connected simulated inclement upwind that we don’t ever spot successful the authorities of Mississippi.”

Webster believes that these plans volition found Coahoma arsenic a person successful the region for the taxable area.

“Additionally, plans are successful spot to make a virtual Foundation of Mechatronics program that volition let CCC to connection 50% oregon much of the Industrial Maintenance and Electrical Technology programme people without students ever having to travel to the campus.

“We received immoderate further funds that volition let america to instrumentality our Industrial Maintenance program arsenic good arsenic a information of our Electrical curriculum, for which we already person simulation, to make that on with acquisition modules successful a virtual world space,” said Webster.

Mechatronics is simply a multidisciplinary tract that refers to the accomplishment sets needed in the contemporary, precocious automated manufacturing industry. At the intersection of mechanics, electronics, and computing, mechatronics specialists make simpler, smarter systems. Mechatronics is an indispensable instauration for the expected maturation successful automation and manufacturing.

“So, successful essence, we volition beryllium capable to thatch Mechatronics done virtual reality,” Webster added.

Since coming connected committee successful 2021, Webster has been assertive successful the pursuit of bold and innovative ideas to grow and elevate CTE offerings astatine Coahoma. His imaginativeness is to supply world-class grooming that volition hole learners for a rapidly changing enactment environment.

“I judge our students and assemblage merit to beryllium trained connected the champion equipment and beryllium connected the cutting borderline of what is going to hole them for a planetary occupation market,” said Webster. “So, with that successful mind, my aggressiveness, successful a sense, is geared toward bringing america up to velocity with manufacture standards.”

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