Industry concern programme with CTIA and iFixOmaha offers assemblage entree to at-cost instrumentality repair astatine Fort Omaha Campus

, /PRNewswire/ -- Metropolitan Community College, CTIA and iFixOmaha contiguous announced the motorboat of the archetypal ever postsecondary acquisition mobile instrumentality repair certification program. The archetypal MCC Mobile Device Repair Academy is scheduled to motorboat successful the outpouring 4th astatine MCC Digital Express, the College's state-of-the-art, integer room precocious opened connected the Fort Omaha Campus.

The academy is simply a credentialing programme that includes a one-week Boot Camp and an eight-week internship. Participants whitethorn gain 2 Wireless Industry Service Excellence (WISE) certifications upon palmy completion of the Boot Camp.  

The WISE Certification programme was established successful 2019 by CTIA, the wireless manufacture association, aft years of coordinated efforts by much than 50 organizations crossed the spectrum of the wireless industry. By establishing standards for worker grooming and champion practices for mobile instrumentality repair, the programme provides consumers with a predictable, high-quality repair experience.

About 50 cardinal mobile instrumentality screens are damaged each year, and the noncredit programme volition supply an at-cost assets to the greater Omaha community.

"There's a important marketplace request for mobile instrumentality repair, and MCC is thrilled to spouse with CTIA and iFixOmaha to beryllium capable to connection this first-of-its-kind programme successful education," said Gary Girard, MCC Vice President for Community and Workforce Education. "The committedness of our partners makes it imaginable for our students to payment from invaluable grooming that tin assistance them participate a exertion vocation with exceptional maturation imaginable and gives our assemblage entree to low-cost instrumentality repair."

Reboot Central, the exertion enactment work table astatine Digital Express, volition beryllium staffed by MCC students who person completed the Boot Camp and earned WISE Level 1 and 2 certifications. During this internship, participants volition person hands-on grooming fixing breached devices and gaining lawsuit work skills. Repairs volition beryllium supervised by WISE-authorized grooming administrators with iFixOmaha, an autarkic mobile instrumentality repair store with 3 Omaha locations and determination enlargement goals.

"The internship portion is what makes the programme genuinely unique, providing instantly employable workers to the determination workforce," Girard said. "By the completion of the program, students volition show the method skills and the brushed skills needed to enactment successful a nonrecreational mobile instrumentality repair shop."

"The wireless manufacture is committed to grooming and expanding entree to in-demand careers successful wireless technology," said Michelle James, CTIA Vice President, Strategic Industry Programs. "We're arrogant to beryllium partnering with MCC and CTIA member, iFixOmaha, to present this first-of-its-kind world grooming for the repair industry."    

Having the concern of iFixOmaha to administer the programme is simply a important component, Girard said.

"Throughout the years, we've attempted to standard retired of Omaha, and the 1 happening that ever stifles our maturation is staffing – having decently skilled technicians," said Jason DeWater, laminitis of iFixOmaha. "Certification is tremendously invaluable for this vocation due to the fact that it ensures the occupation campaigner has done the prerequisite enactment to beryllium employed astatine immoderate of the starring companies successful this industry. That means higher starting wage due to the fact that they'll travel successful with state-of-the-art cognition for fixing today's smartphones."

DeWater said completing the MCC Mobile Device Repair Academy volition besides beryllium the caller modular for moving astatine iFixOmaha.

"It has the imaginable to crook radical into entrepreneurs overnight," DeWater said. "We're going to declaration students coming retired of this programme to enactment for iFixOmaha, but they tin besides unfastened their ain business."

"We are excited astir this unsocial programme and to research integrating this coursework into our different programs astatine MCC," said Karen Wegner, MCC Workforce Education instructional designer. She noted that scholarships whitethorn beryllium disposable for those who are eligible.

For much accusation connected the MCC Mobile Device Repair Academy oregon to register, sojourn www.mccneb.edu/MobileRepair.

SOURCE CTIA -The Wireless Association