This annual event brings in proceeds to support student
scholarships through the WVU at Parkersburg Foundation. With
the funds raised from this year’s event, 12 more student veterans
will each receive $1,000 to pay help pay for tuition and fees.
According to Darren Shearlock, the university’s veterans
advocate, the opportunities available to student veterans
at WVU Parkersburg are invaluable in helping them move
forward professionally.
“Right now across America, we’re in a changing economy,”
says Shearlock. “Jobs your parents used to have won’t be able
to provide a lot of young people the careers they’re looking
for to reach that middle-class lifestyle. In order to change with
the economy, they need new skills, and at WVU Parkersburg,
we’re able to help them achieve those skills and get degrees and
certificates that will make them competitive in a 21st century
environment at one of the lowest rates in the state.”
RCBI and Mountaineer ChalleNGe Academy Partner
to Offer Advanced Manufacturing Training
The West Virginia National Guard’s Mountaineer ChalleNGe
Academy Job ChalleNGe students are learning in-demand in-
dustry skills thanks to a new partnership with the Robert C.
Byrd Institute (RCBI) at Marshall University.
The Mountaineer Job ChalleNGe Program is a new 22-week
course that provides advanced manufacturing skills training
that leads to national certifications and job placement. The
program is open to graduates of the Mountaineer ChalleNGe
Academy who are 17-20 years of age and interested in entering
the West Virginia manufacturing workforce.
Classes are currently offered at the RCBI Bridgeport Ad-
vanced Manufacturing Technology Center and will eventually
be offered at a new training center under development at the
new Job ChalleNGe training site located at Camp Dawson
in Kingwood. RCBI will continue to deliver the instruction.
Participants in the manufacturing technology program
learn how to set up, program and operate computer numerical
control (CNC) machines widely used in advanced manufacturing.
Students also learn blueprint reading, precision measure ment
and computer-aided design.
Students who complete the program will be prepared for
entry-level careers in manufacturing. They will also be eligible to
enroll in RCBI’s two-year machinist technology/CNC program
offered at four locations across the state, which can lead to a
two-year associate degree and national certifications.
Land Surveying Students to Benefit
from Equipment Donation
Several Glenville State College land surveying students
now have more tools of the trade at their disposal thanks to
a recent donation.
Representatives from Precision Laser & Instrument, Inc. in
Cross Lanes, WV, were on hand recently to present second-year
students majoring in land surveying with equipment vests. The
students also received an equipment pack that included a mea-
suring tape, plumb bob and sheath, compass and gammon reel.
The equipment packs were purchased and donated to the stu-
dents through the efforts of former land surveying professor
Charles Sypolt, as well as donations from Senator Dave Sypolt,
CONGRATULATIONS, SARAH!
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our culture and core values, and we would like to congratulate her
on being inducted into WV Executive’s Young Guns Class of 2020!
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