Big Sandy Community and Technical College is Celebrating Entrepreneurship Week
February 21, 2018
February 17-24 is national Entrepreneurship Week and Big Sandy Community and Technical College (BSCTC) is working with and helping create entrepreneurs around the state.
Big Sandy Community and Technical College’s Mayo campus in Paintsville is home to American Metal Works, which was started by entrepreneurs who’d been in the oil and gas drilling business. The company creates parts for the aerospace, manufacturing, automotive, defense and biomedical fields.
Owners James Glass and Danny Rohrer wanted to create a new business to re-employ some of their previous employees and laid off coal miners to keep them in the community. They also started an apprenticeship program and now have four apprentices. According to the owners, the apprenticeship program helps them “grow their own.”
Big Sandy Community and Technical College is putting a stronger emphasis on entrepreneurship in other ways by recently signing an agreement for a registered apprentice program to train Water Treatment Plant and Wastewater Treatment Operators.
Dr. Sherry Zylka, BSCTC President and CEO recently attended a professional development workshop offered by the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE), in partnership with the Appalachian Regional Commission. The focus was on how to apply entrepreneurial methods to community college leadership.
At the conclusion of the workshop, presidents signed the NACCE Presidents for Entrepreneurship Pledge (PFEP). Through the PFEP, the presidents committed to advance entrepreneurship in their communities and create an entrepreneurial culture on their campus with multiple access points to support local startups and small businesses.
For more information about BSCTC entrepreneurship activities, contact Danny Tonkin at (606) 230-0354 or email wtonkin0001@kctcs.edu.
Big Sandy Community and Technical College’s Mayo campus in Paintsville is home to American Metal Works, which was started by entrepreneurs who’d been in the oil and gas drilling business. The company creates parts for the aerospace, manufacturing, automotive, defense and biomedical fields.
Owners James Glass and Danny Rohrer wanted to create a new business to re-employ some of their previous employees and laid off coal miners to keep them in the community. They also started an apprenticeship program and now have four apprentices. According to the owners, the apprenticeship program helps them “grow their own.”
Big Sandy Community and Technical College is putting a stronger emphasis on entrepreneurship in other ways by recently signing an agreement for a registered apprentice program to train Water Treatment Plant and Wastewater Treatment Operators.
Dr. Sherry Zylka, BSCTC President and CEO recently attended a professional development workshop offered by the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE), in partnership with the Appalachian Regional Commission. The focus was on how to apply entrepreneurial methods to community college leadership.
At the conclusion of the workshop, presidents signed the NACCE Presidents for Entrepreneurship Pledge (PFEP). Through the PFEP, the presidents committed to advance entrepreneurship in their communities and create an entrepreneurial culture on their campus with multiple access points to support local startups and small businesses.
For more information about BSCTC entrepreneurship activities, contact Danny Tonkin at (606) 230-0354 or email wtonkin0001@kctcs.edu.
