The purpose of this Golden LEAF grant is to create a Triad area education and training partnership with the goal of developing and sustaining a career pipeline that will quickly produce skilled workers to meet the needs of the aerospace industry locally and across the state. Funds are to be used for the following purposes: partner with Job Link to broadly implement a pre-employment assessment program for the aerospace industry in the region, enhance training capabilities in the Non-Destructive Inspection program and refurbish a paint booth at GTCC, support curriculum development and enhance training capabilities at Guilford and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools and assist NC A&T State University with design and implementation of a Summer Engineering Academy.
