$100K Grant Awarded For Machinist Training At Ivy Tech
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The Office of Community and Rural Affairs announced a major grant award that will be available to residents who are considered underemployed and seeking to gain training as a machinist. Wabash County was an applicant for a joint Wabash-Kosciusko-Huntington county grant, according to a news release from Kosciusko Economic Development Corp. With Work One matching funding, the grant will provide $100,000 in scholarship money for 25 underemployed Kosciusko County residents seeking to complete machinist training at Ivy Tech Warsaw. The KEDCo Board had committed the required $20,000 local match, which covers other costs associated with promoting and administering the program. “This is a great addition to our previously announced ‘early college’ year two machining program at Ivy Tech in collaboration with the Warsaw Area Career Center," noted KEDCo Chairman Dan Brown. “With 14 students in that program and another 25 in the OCRA program, we are well on the way to create the new machinist pipeline our employers need in Kosciusko County,” Brown said. “This program is aimed at underemployed workers over 18 years who reside in Kosciusko County and want a skilled job with greater pay and benefits than they currently have,” noted George Robertson, KEDCo president. Information on how to apply will be released shortly, but persons interested in this program can e-mail KEDCo to be placed on the list of potential scholarship recipients.
