New England Public Media, August 9th, 2024 — New England Public Media (NEPM) featured Clean Crop Technologies partnership with Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) in association with the $1.2M Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (M2I2) grant awarded the company to fund the expansion of operations and Clean Current technology, along with a workforce development initiative for sustainable manufacturing in the Pioneer Valley Region.
“We want to see more than just funding the company,” Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CAM) Director Christine Nolan said about the awards, which seek to additionally benefit recipients’ communities.
STCC President Dr. John Cook says partnerships like this one help students to know there’s exciting career prospects out there.
“There’s opportunities, and we’ve got the training piece, and we want to bring those two together. So the college has for years and years – it’s part of our legacy – been a close collaborator with business and with industry,” he said. “And this is just a really, really good example of where we are here in 2024.”
Clean Crop Technologies CEO and co-founder Dan White says the collaboration with STCC will show durable demand for the field – not only as just a company to work at, but a new career path to pursue.
He said he also wants to expand the workplace development training program by potentially connecting with other Pioneer Valley clean energy employers and pooling resources for students.
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