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Training Tomorrow's Technology Workers
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Business New Haven
12/08/2003
By: BNH
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HARTFORD - The Governor's Office for Workforce Competitiveness (OWC) and the Connecticut Technology Council (CTC) and its software "cluster" program have partnered to assist the Connecticut Career Choices (CCC) initiative. CCC is the educational component of a statewide strategic plan to develop the state's technology workforce through career mentoring, after-school programs, high school and college internships and curriculum enhancement.
Representatives of CTC member software companies will serve as classroom mentors throughout the school year. In addition, technology companies will host students as part of company open houses designed to expose students to the broad range of technology-related professions and work environments.
According to 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."
Added CTC President Matthew Nemerson: "Sustaining a highly skilled workforce requires this level of collaboration between the public and private sectors. Indeed collaboration - whether we're talking about education, technology transfer or consortia - represents the key to future economic growth in Connecticut."
Rowland proclaimed November "Software and Information Technology Month" in Connecticut. The partnership was part of a month-long agenda of activities associated with this theme.
Connecticut Career Choices is an educational and workforce initiative under the Office for Workforce Competitiveness (OWC) in partnership with various national, state and regional organizations including the Battelle Memorial Institute's Technology Partnership Practice, the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce and the Connecticut Economic Resource Center (CERC).
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