The Kaskaskia College Board has agreed to begin the process of putting together a half-million-dollar Mobile Industrial Trades Education and Training Trailer.
College President George Evans sees the trailer as being a big piece of their effort to promote the vocational trades.
“If junior high schools wanted to have a manufacturing day, we would go there with our faculty staff and set it up. Let them play around with it, utilize the robotics, the CNC machines, the welders, the HVAC equipment, and carpentry tools. But it can also be utilized at the high school level if you want to get more in-depth with some of the curricula offered to schools that would never be able to have an industrial technology program due to budgetary reasons. This can serve that purpose as well.”
Evans says the trailer could also be taken to manufacturing facilities and businesses to provide on-site training.
Evans anticipates it will take the next year to put the trailer and its educational components together before it is ready to hit the road.
The cost of the project will be paid through Perkins Grant Funding.
