Shawsheen Valley Technical School Receives $240,000 for Welding Program

Shawsheen Valley Technical School received a grant of about $240,000 to buy all the needed equipment for expansion of the program devoted to metal fabrication and welding. The school will be equipped with the latest innovative instruments to provide advanced manufacturing and construction courses which are really needed in Middlesex County. The present requirements to any education in the sphere of welding and metal fabrication make each tech school get cutting-edge equipment that would help grow professional welders.

Thanks to this equipment, students will have a chance to get the proper knowledge of metal fabrication and joining technologies. Besides, students will be able to get involved in learning metal forming techniques, mechanical cutting operations according to the standards of the present industry.

At present, the school has about 1,400 students that are going to be prepared for careers in technology and other skilled occupations. Having this advanced equipment, students of this tech school will have all the necessary skills to compete in the global economy.

This school will also have a chance to increase enrolment to the metal fabrication and joining technologies. The future plans are also associated with expansion of adult education and workforce development. Advanced manufacturing education will become real as never. This equipment along with the school will be able to close the gap in the number of welders needed in the county. If the courses appear to be successful, the school is going to buy a lot more equipment and to provide students with more advanced ways of welding.

Besides, the school is going to expand other education programs and will start prepare students for high demand industries that can include technical skills, manufacturing and information technologies. Such an approach to education will help business owners achieve their goals as soon as possible having highly trained employees.