By Larry Rulison, Times-Union
If the Capital Region is going to become a major center for advanced manufacturing and renewable energy technologies, the workforce has to be trained even before college. That’s the approach educators at Questar III’s Columbia-Greene Educational Center here in Hudson are taking with their students. The school, part of the state’s BOCES system, provides hands-on training for some of the most sought out careers in the country even before the students graduate high school. And these aren’t run-of-the-mill vocational courses, but high-level training in solar electricity, wind power, batteries, semiconductors and high-tech manufacturing and robotics. While some students go straight into industry, others move on to schools like Hudson Valley Community College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy.
http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Looking-into-the-future-for-jobs-2474802.php
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