28 students complete latest BASF TECH Academy
Twenty-eight area high school students completed BASF’s TECH Academy—a week-long educational and workforce development program hosted at River Parishes Community College in Gonzales.
The program...
SOWELA creates Louisiana’s only oil pipeline training academy
SOWELA Technical Community College is getting a $1 million donation from TC Energy to create a new TC Energy Pipeline Academy at its Lake...
South Louisiana companies use virtual reality to train workforce
Imagine the immense responsibility on the shoulders of an 800-ton crane operator, installing two large, 150-foot-tall reactors along with a smaller one—weighing a combined...
174 graduating from ABC Pelican Baton Rouge Training Center
Some 174 students will graduate this week from the Pelican Chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. Baton Rouge Training Center after completing...
Louisiana expanding Jump Start Summers program
The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is expanding the Jump Start Summers program, giving more than 3,000 high school students the opportunity...
Tim Johnson: Why career and technical education is critical for Louisiana
The construction industry will need almost 2 million new skilled craft professionals in the United States by 2025.
As the last of the baby boomers...
Two Louisiana schools top Shell’s regional science challenge
Two Louisiana schools have been named grand prize winners in the Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge.
East Ascension High School in Gonzales was named the...
