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LEWISTOWN -- The Mifflin County Academy of Science and Technology was one of nine schools to receive a grant from the American Welding Society Foundation to improve the training capacity of its welding program.
According to a news release from the AWS, the Academy was presented with a $25,000 grant, which it will use to support the needs of local industries.
"We initially applied for the grant to help get some of the critical testing equipment needed to become an accredited testing facility through AWS," said Mike McMonigal, supervisor of adult education and post-secondary education at the Mifflin County Academy of Science and Technology. "We hope that utilizing the grant will get our students and the program the edge it needs to be a leading welding facility within central Pennsylvania."
Other grant recipients include: Aiken Technical College in Aiken, SC; Crowder College Advanced Training and Technology Center in Joplin, MO; Kankakee Area Career Center in Bourbonnais, IL; Kansas City Kansas Community College in Kansas City, KS; Mount Pleasant High School in Columbia, TN; Texarkana College in Texarkana, TX; Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove, IL; and York County School of Technology in York.
For more information about The Academy's Certified Welding program contact the school at (717) 248-3933.
The AWS Foundation is dedicated to building the welding workforce by providing grant funding to secondary and post-secondary welder training facilities that seek to enhance and improve their welding education programs. Each school submitted a proposal detailing equipment or facility upgrades that would increase the number of students trained or graduates successfully employed.