Coventry High Tech Center awarded grant to partner with EB on student job training

COVENTRY – Coventry High School’s Regional Career and Technical Center has been awarded a $198,000 state grant to partner with General Dynamics Electric Boat to train students for jobs at EB.
State Rep. Sherry Roberts, R-West Greenwich, made the announcement in a press release recently after working with Coventry Schools Superintendent Mike Convery to win the grant.
The Prepare RI Grant will be used to implement a Welding/manufacturing, Shipbuilding/marine trades and Advanced Manufacturing Institute Program beginning in the 2016-17 school year, Roberts said.
Coventry has to apply to the state Department of Education to seek program approval, said Convery. This would allow other school districts to send students to the program at Coventry High School.
The program begins with freshmen and sophomores. Mentors and guest speakers from Electric Boat will be invited to address the students. Tenth grade students will participate in a virtual reality welding experience, Roberts said.
In the second year of the program, juniors will participate in coursework at the New England Institute of Technology. In the third year, seniors will have an alternating schedule, spending one day at Coventry High School and one day in an internship program at Electric Boat, she said.
Convery thanked Roberts “for her efforts to initiate an educational connection between Coventry Public Schools and Electric Boat.”

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