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CTC Establishes Education Partnership
Collaboration aims to benefit students statewide
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Business New Haven
11/24/2003
By: BNH
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The Governor's Office for Workforce Competitiveness (OWC) and the Connecticut Technology Council have established a partnership that connects the association of technology companies with the Connecticut Career Choices (CCC) initiative. CCC is the educational component of a statewide initiative to develop the state's technology workforce through career mentoring, after-school programs, high school and college internships and curriculum enhancement.
Under terms of the partnership, members of the CTC and its software "cluster" will serve as classroom mentors throughout the school year. In addition, technology companies will host students for company open houses designed to expose students to a wide range of technology-related professions and work environments.
"This educational partnership between businesses and public schools is a win-win for Connecticut," says Mary Ann Hanley, Gov. John G. Rowland's policy advisor on workforce. "To remain competitive and to create jobs, we must inspire the next generation of engineers, chemists and physicists, who will be capable of creating new companies and even whole industries we have yet to envision."
"Sustaining a highly skilled workforce requires this level of collaboration between the public and private sectors," adds Matthew Nemerson, the CTC's president and CEO. "Indeed, collaboration - whether we're talking about education, technology transfer or consortia - represents the key to future economic growth in Connecticut."
Rowland proclaimed November 2003 "Software & Information Technology Month" in Connecticut. The partnership is part of a month-long agenda of activities associated with this theme.
Connecticut Career Choices (CCC) is an educational and workforce initiative guided by the Office for Workforce Competitiveness (OWC) in collaboration with a number of national, state and regional organizations including the Battelle Memorial Institute's Technology Partnership Practice, the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce, the Connecticut Economic Resource Center (CERC), the Education Connection and the CTC. Its aim is to assist the education, training, attraction, and retention of skilled technology workers in Connecticut.
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