| WHO: | Students from the Mechatronics Certificate Program at HACC’s Gettysburg Campus will provide demonstrations during the ceremony. Local manufacturing representatives, members of the Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce and Adams County Chamber of Commerce, HACC employees, county commissioners, state representatives and area school district representatives will be in attendance. The speakers are to include John J. “Ski” Sygielski, Ed.D., HACC president; Gary Laird, Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce president; Robin Fitzpatrick, Adams County Economic Development Corporation president; Zachary Brown and Samuel Effland, HACC students in the Mechatronics program; and Shannon Harvey, HACC Gettysburg Campus vice president. |
| WHAT: | Dedication ceremony for mechatronics lab and classroom on HACC’s Gettysburg Campus |
| WHEN: | Oct. 29, 2015, 4:30-6 p.m. Formal program begins at 5 p.m. Tours, refreshments and demonstrations will be available before and after the program. |
| WHERE: | HACC Gettysburg Campus Room 500 (signage will be posted) |
| COVERAGE: | Adams County and Hanover are strong manufacturing communities with manufacturing making up approximately 19 percent of the workforce. The new mechatronics classroom and lab, which complement HACC’s Mechatronics program instituted in fall 2015, allow students to work extensively with actual industrial components donated by local companies and help prepare them for the workforce. The Mechatronics program is a combination of mechanical and electrical engineering, which prepares students for jobs in installation, repair or maintenance of electrical, mechanical and/or computerized equipment. For further information, please contact newsroom@hacc.edu. About HACC HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, offers more than 150 career and transfer associate degree, certificate and diploma programs to nearly 20,000 students at campuses in Gettysburg, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lebanon and York and through virtual learning. In addition, HACC serves more than 29,000 students in noncredit workforce development, public safety, adult basic education and continuing education programs offered at all campuses and off-site locations in many communities in Central Pennsylvania. For more information on how HACC is uniquely YOURS, visit hacc.edu. Also, follow us on Twitter (@HACC_info), like us on Facebook (Facebook.com/HACC64) and use #HACCNews. |
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