Atlanta, GA | Posted: March 15, 2016
Three West Georgia Technical College students have been hanging around the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI) quite a bit lately. Students Chris Gilmore, Tim Lawson, and Corey Cole are here as part of an internship program developed by GTMI, the Technical College System of Georgia and the Georgia Department of Economic Development. Internships were awarded after an application and interview process.
Tim's and Corey's internships were funded from a grant awarded by Georgia Economic Development through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. The program will have up to 20 interns over the course of the program (through June, 2020). Chris Gilmore was part of the pilot program that eventually led to the funding from GDEcD.
In early March 2017, the interns met with GTMI, WGTC and GDEcD officials to explain the program and their participation in it. The presentations were meant to be a status update for GDEcD.
The TCSG-GTMI Internship Program is funded by the Georgia Department of Economic Development's Workforce Division. The primary goal of the program is to enhance the preparation of technical college students for the advanced manufacturing workforce. Specifically, by challenging technical college students to complete complex, real-world, mission-critical manufacturing research and commercialization projects, the program aims to develop:
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