KCCC awarded $25,000 from the Gene Haas Foundation

Knox County Career Center was awarded $25,000 from the Gene Haas Foundation as a grant to support scholarships along with additional authorized uses of the grant funds.

Scholarships are to be awarded to students who are currently enrolled or will be enrolling in a CNC training program or Engineering program with an emphasis on CNC technology and designed for manufacturability; credit and non-credit training classes are eligible. The recipients of these scholarships will be determined by the program instructor or an advisory committee which includes the program instructor.

There are also additional authorized uses for these grand funds. A “toolkit” required to become a CNC machinist, which may include small hand tools like micrometers, calipers, and safety gear, may be purchased by the school and then awarded as a gift to the students to be retained by the recipients upon completion of your program. Up to $3,000 per competition type may be used for participating in SkillsUSA-CNC Competition or ProjectMFG-CNC Competition.

Tuition may be provided for a student to attend manufacturing-related training, summer camp, boot camp, or related CNC training at a career center or community college to introduce students to programs or careers in manufacturing. Up to $1,500 of these funds (per attendee) may be used for your CNC Educator(s) and/or Engineering instructor(s) to attend the 19th Annual HTEC Conference on July 27-30.

Joe LaFevre, Precision Machining instructor at KCCC, commented, “We are honored as a program and a school to be awarded this grant! It is continually clear that Haas Automation works very hard to impact students around our country and we are just beyond grateful for this grant!”