Photo | Courtesy of Assabet Valley Regional Vocational School District
Event attendees on a tour of the computer programming and web design lab.
July 1, 2024
Assabet Valley granted $500K to modernize automotive, electrician training programs
Photo | Courtesy of Assabet Valley Regional Vocational School District
Assabet administrators, staff, and school committee members, along with legislators and local officials gathered at Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School for announcement of Skills Capital Grant awards.
Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School in Marlborough has been awarded $499,480 from the Massachusetts Skills Capital Grant program to help improve its workforce training.
The grant will support the school’s automotive technology and electrical wiring technology programs to purchase training equipment aligned with current industry-standard technology and workforce demands, according to a Monday press release by the Assabet Valley Regional Vocational School District.
Assabet has been awarded several Skills Capital Grants since fiscal year 2022, totalling $2.8 million
"Our department continually strives to build and maintain a realistic, rigorous, and enriching automotive learning environment," Daniel Capuano, Assabet automotive technology teacher, said in the press release. "This grant will allow us to fortify our learning space by purchasing up-to-date automotive service equipment and offer additional certifiable skills, which should enable students to secure employment more easily."
Assabet administrators, staff, legislators and local officials gathered at Assabet’s student-operated restaurant to celebrate the grant on June 10.
Attendees toured the computer programming and web design, cosmetology, and HVAC/R programs, all of which have used state funding to improve their shops and buy new equipment. In addition to seeing the spaces where students work, attendees watched a student-programmed dancing robot and took a seat in the shampoo stations in the cosmetology classroom.
"This funding allows us the ability to provide the newest and most state-of-the-art equipment for our students, both in our daytime secondary and adult post-secondary programs at night, so they have the necessary experience when they enter the workforce," Superintendent Ernest Houle said in the press release.
Sara Bedigian is a participant in the Editorial Internship Program at Worcester Business Journal. She is a rising junior at the University of Connecticut, where she studies journalism and political science. She will be the editor of the student-run newspaper The Daily Campus in the fall.
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