(TNS) — Hamilton County Schools will partner with Volkswagen to prepare students at the district’s newest career and technical education center for engineering careers, county and company officials announced Thursday.
The Franklin-Roberts Future Ready Center, a centralized hub where multiple high schools will send students to learn skills for career fields, will house a Volkswagen engineering preparatory program.
As many students whose interests we could pique in elementary school, but who we can train beginning in middle school and high school for these careers, that’s the way I think you sustainably build a great community,” Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp told reporters. “That’s a way that we can ensure that as Volkswagen grows its footprint, as other companies invest here and as this economy grows, our people are benefiting as a part of that.”…