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Above: H-1B Instructor Rob Foulkrod from New Horizons instructs a
pair of First Federal of Northern Michigan IT managers in a recent
Microsoft SQL reporting class at ACC in January 2006. Foulkrod was rated
one of New Horizon's top five instructors in student evaluations. New
Horizons employs roughly 10,000 trainers world-wide.
Above:
Blockmaker’s Workshop Instructor Pete Alexander guides a student
working the control panel of a Besser
Vibrapac machine in the World Center for
Concrete Technology during a month-long Plant Integration course in
July. The course took 12 machine operators from around the country and
led them through 160 hours of targeted technical training related to
operating a block plant.
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Above:
A fun moment at the
graduation ceremony for the Plant Integration course. Trainees each
received two industry-validated Blockmaker’s
certificates upon completion of the course — one for
Vibrapac and the other for Plant Integration
for Concrete Masonry Production.
Above:
Twenty of the
brightest and busiest IT network administrators in the Alpena area have
taken three full weeks of Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer training
to date. The fourth week of the seven-week MCSE sequence begins in
December 2004. Managing complex e-mail systems, Internet and network security,
and integrating large databases into business operating systems are some
of the topics covered.
Above and below:
Blockmaker’s Instructor Jeff Oliver describes the complex logics
of programmable controllers to 12 trainees from around the country who
came to the WCCT for a three-day course on Computer-Controlled Automatic
Cuber functions.
Above:
DASI President David
Darbyshire and ACC CAD instructor Kathy
Dapprich share the spotlight during a
donation ceremony at ACC in August. DASI donated 30 seats of
SolidWorks software to
ACC, a gift valued in excess of $800,000.
Above:
DASI instructor Jim
Byrne demonstrates a design concept to a trainee during a week-long
SolidWorks Essentials training session at
ACC in July. Five full weeks of SolidWorks
Essentials and a week of Cosmos (Advanced
SolidWorks) have been delivered since June.
Previous H-1B Grant activities
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