Tech Training

WMCAT Wins $150,000 Google Grant To Launch Tech Career Training Program

GRAND RAPIDS —  The West Michigan Center for Arts + Technology (WMCAT) recently received a $150,000 grant from Google to support the nonprofit’s new Adult Career Training Program. WMCAT’s new Cybersecurity + GRC program is designed to prepare under-employed and unemployed adults in Kent County for careers in cybersecurity, governance, risk and compliance, as MiBiz previously reported. The seven

By |2022-11-02T08:34:31-04:00November 1st, 2022|ESD, Featured|

Marshall Plan For Talent Gets 88 Submissions In Phase 1 Of $100 Million Challenge

LANSING - More than 800 businesses, educators and community organizations have committed to pursuing Marshall Plan for Talent grants, Gov. Rick Snyder announced Thursday. These entities have applied to be considered for the first round of Innovation Grants under the $100 million Marshall Plan for Talent investment. The first step in the Marshall Plan for

By |2018-09-27T17:09:25-04:00September 27th, 2018|Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Featured, Politics, Politics/Government|

State Agencies Need To Work Together To Foster Career, Technical Education

LANSING - If career and technical education programs are going to gain the recognition that state leaders want, everyone involved needs to change how they talk about those programs, Governor Rick Snyder, Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Whiston and Talent and Economic Development Director Roger Curtis said in various presentations to the Governor's Education and

By |2017-04-27T16:44:59-04:00April 27th, 2017|Politics|