{"id":20288,"date":"2023-06-15T12:15:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/applied-technology-education-center-preview-event\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T16:15:12","slug":"applied-technology-education-center-preview-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/applied-technology-education-center-preview-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Applied Technology Education Center preview event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Several local news outlets reported on the Applied Technology Education Center (ATEC) preview event held Wednesday morning in the Cogan Hall Automotive Lab.<\/p>\n<p>Hudson Valley Community College hosted more than 200 business, community and academic leaders, and elected officials, for a preview of plans for ATEC, a $85 million workforce training center to be built on the college\u2019s main campus. The state-of-the-art, 130,000-square-foot facility will prepare students for in-demand careers in fields such as building systems, automotive and transportation technology, renewable energy, and semiconductor manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to President Roger Ramsammy, speakers included Walter Thorne, publisher of the Albany Business Review; Ren\u00e9e Powell, president of the NAACP Troy Branch, and Don Fane, president of Callanan Industries. The event closed with a ceremonial signing of the \u201cWorkforce of Tomorrow Pledge\u201d by dozens of community partners who are committed to connecting students from underserved communities to careers in skilled trades and applied technologies fields.<\/p>\n<p>News coverage:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/InvisibleWorkforce_TroyRecord_06-15-23.pdf\">The Troy Record<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wamc.org\/news\/2023-06-15\/hvcc-building-workforce-training-center-to-address-employee-shortage-in-the-trades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WAMC Northeast Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news10.com\/news\/hvcc-announces-85-million-workforce-training-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WTEN ABC News 10<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_150993\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150993\" style=\"width: 2322px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-150993 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/ATECpreview_RR-e1686831528607.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2322\" height=\"1207\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Roger Ramsammy at the June 14 ATEC preview event. (Photo: Vincent Giordano, HVCC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:15:12 +0000 by\u00a0d.gardner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Several local news outlets reported on the Applied Technology Education Center (ATEC) preview event held Wednesday morning in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}