AdvanceSC has awarded SCC-CCE three grants for building, equipment and training for the regional robotics facility to be located on Highway 176 outside of Union across from the LSP industrial site. In September, $248,550 was awarded for the building, and in November, a second alliance grant of $250,000 was awarded. In addition, SCC received a [...]
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$650 Thousand in Grants Awarded for Union Robotics Facility
Posted in Festo Corporation, Grant-funded Training, Mechatronics, Robotics, Union County Career Technology Center, Union SC, Upstate Alliance for Technical Training, Workforce Development, tagged AdvanceSC, BMW, Festo, infrastructure grants, KUKA, LSP Inc, Robotics, Siemens, training grants, Union Career Technology Center, Union Robotics Training Facility on December 14, 2007 | No Comments »
A Cool Million (and a Quarter) from AdvanceSC
Posted in AdvanceSC, Business Partnership, Education Partnership, Grant-funded Training, I-85 corridor, Mechatronics, Quality & Lean Manufacturing, TechReadySC (TM), Upstate Alliance for Technical Training, Workforce Development, tagged AdvanceSC, Anderson Career and Technology Center, BMW, Borg-Warner TorqTransfer Systems, grants, SC TEchnical College System, T.O.T.A.L. Ministries, TechReadySC (TM), Upstate Alliance for Technical Training on November 13, 2007 | No Comments »
At the BMW Zentrum today, AdvanceSC handed a large check to the board of the Upstate Alliance for Technical Training. The check itself was the usual kind for photo-ops–about 30 inches x 60 inches–but the amount was more impressive: one and a quarter million dollars made available for grants.
Partners in the Upstate Alliance are Tri-County [...]
SCC-C&CE joins AMTEC
Posted in Automotive Industry, Business Partnership, Education Partnership, tagged AMTEC, automotive manufacturing, BMW, Ford, GM, hybrid web hands-on training, proactive education, South Carolina, Toyota on September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
SCC-C&CE joins AMTEC, the Automobile Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative to develop improved educational practices for the manufacturing workforce.
AMTEC is offering the most innovative vision for school capabilities and for partnering with the manufacturing industry.” –Dennis Parker, Toyota Manufacturing Kentucky.
Formed through a planning grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), AMTEC partners across seven states seek [...]





