How $1M gift will transform Augusta Tech automotive campus

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Neighborhood businessman Jim Hudson donated $1 million to Augusta Tech, on major of the $1 million Augusta Countrywide pledged in April.

The program is to move their total automotive schooling campus to the previous Johnson Motor Firm on Walton way.

Here’s how it’s prepping learners for an industry in critical need to have of staff.

Some pupils like Andrew Chavez, who are enrolled in Augusta Tech’s automotive program, he’s about to be the very first gentleman to graduate school in his loved ones.

“I have a accurate enthusiasm for this. I have an uncle who preset cars developing up, and I want to abide by in those people footsteps,” he reported.

The big verify is just a single way of supporting to renovate Augusta Tech’s auto coaching method.

Martia Moore, scholar reported: “The program itself… I’m just likely to proceed to expand with it, and it’s just excellent to be a section of a milestone for this faculty itself.”

The prepare is to shift this 10,000-square-foot garage to the Johnson Motor Enterprise on Walton Way.

“The automotive market is continually rising,” she reported.

They’ll renovate this area into a 65,000-sq.-foot point out-of-the-artwork automotive campus, using the recent building.

The intention is to fill the regional will need in the automotive area.

“I consider the want for professionals in the automotive field correct now is particularly substantial. We require them even worse than we will need just about anything else,” he reported.

Augusta Tech will offer 16 certification plans to a lot more than 1,200 learners.

Jermain Whirl, Augusta Tech president reported: “We’re seriously heading to be ready to maximize our potential, acquire in a lot more college students, and enhance the workforce.”

They are hoping this method will enable educate students for the upcoming with electric motor vehicle teaching whilst sitting in the coronary heart of downtown Augusta.

Jim Hudson, owner of Jim Hudson Automotive Team mentioned: “We’re not just doing some thing for this good college or university and walking away. This is a beginning position.”

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