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PARTNERSHIPS: THE FORMULA FOR A CUTTING-EDGE STEM WORKFORCE participating on regional boards and employees from more than 60 companies planning committees, such as Maryland's < < < and government agencies. Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) initiative. "One of the largest influences on "The fact that the federal government is going to locate a cyber command center at Fort Meade is giving our region a huge our curriculum is the local business opportunity for very good jobs," adds community – and this includes small Keeton. "At the same time, every small businesses, as well as big employers," says business needs to learn how to protect its Patty Keeton, HCC executive director of network and data. Our job is to introduce workforce development. "There's a lot courses and programs that educate people to keep up with in the technical world, who will qualify for those jobs and to and small businesses do not always have trains more than 7,000 train people to protect their small business the budget to develop their own training. Each year, the BTC networks." So they send their employees to HCC's employees from more than 60 companies and government agencies. Large employers rely on HCC for Charles I. Ecker Business Training Center STEM education, as well. "I tell people cost $4,000, and they'll get one week of (BTC), where we provide specific training at Lockheed Martin that they can attend education," says Thompson. "Or they can to keep their workforce up-to-date. Each a one-week independent training class in take an HCC course for a fraction of the year, the BTC trains more than 7,000 the latest technology that will probably cost and get hands-on time in high-tech HCC Educational Foundation receives a $5,000 gift from ITT Corporation to help establish a computer engineering scholarship. 10 Pathways | Howard Community College Spring 2011

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