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Programs Are “In Tune”
Chattahoochee Tech has a wide
array of programs. They have your
health science programs, different
levels of nursing, traditional trades-think of welding and automotive.
Those are traditional trades that are
having to keep up with the workforce
of today. The car today is not the
same as the car of 50 years ago.
“We’re training those employees to know how to work on today’s
vehicles or today’s buildings through
advanced automation. So, we have a
wide variety, but everything we do is
needed in our community,” said Pence.
“We have to be in tune with
what is needed today but also what’s
needed five years down the road. One
of our shortages right now across
our entire six-county service area is
paramedics,” said Pence. “In the past
we heard we needed nursing, and
we still need nurses, but now we also
have some of those other health programs that we need. We have to be in
touch with what we need right now,
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what we need in five years and then
even further out.”
With those kinds of demands,
and a supportive understanding of
them coming from the State Capitol and Gov. Brian Kemp, technical
colleges are always evolving and
adapting. At Chattahoochee Tech,
they have just opened a new campus in Paulding County and recently
received Federal Aviation Administration certification for programs at that
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campus, such as the Aviation Training Academy and multiple programs
related to airplanes. Between Gulfstream, Delta and the world’s largest
airport, Georgia needs people who
can work on aircraft perhaps as much
as any state in the country.
This past summer the school was
able to offer their first aircraft instructors’ program because they did get
the FAA certification, which was a
very long process. “We’ve always had
