KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Hundreds of local residents have gotten their first look at Kalamazoo’s new Career Connect Center.
They snipped the ribbon on the $100 million KRESA facility that will give Kalamazoo County high schoolers something they have never had, a centralized vocational training center.
Secondary Programs director Sarah Mansberger says until now, programs have been scattered all over the county at individual districts.
Assistant Superintendent Eric Stewart welcomed the crowd to the ribbon cutting ceremony at the shiny new facility yesterday afternoon.
Stewart called it a “learning palace,” a world class state-of-the-art technical education center that will teach 23 sought-after trades, using the same equipment students will find when they graduate to the workplace.
And with the best teaching available.
If you took the tour, you saw several pieces of factory manufacturing equipment lined up in a large room, next to a modern metal shop, next to a woodshop big enough to build homes in. Or a modern medical treatment facility right next to horticultural education, and right down the hall from cybersecurity and computer programming.
The new Career Connect Center by the Wings Event Center is located in the middle of the county’s two largest school districts and will open for operations this fall term.
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