Michaela Foster looks out of place in the Ozarks Technical Community College welding lab. Well shy of five feet tall, her gloves, hood and welding jacket practically swallow her up. But she has plenty of time to grow into the protective equipment, the 12-year-old is only a seventh grader, but she’s already welding. “You take…
Ozarks Technical Community College will offer two no-cost, short-term training courses at its Springfield campus in the summer of 2023. Students can choose from an information technology boot camp or an entry-level computer numerical control (CNC) machine class. The Information Technology Boot Camp prepares students to complete the A+ Certification exam. The A+ Core 1…
When Lebanon-based manufacturer DT Engineering became the first tenant of the industry partner space inside the new Robert W. Plaster Center for Advanced Manufacturing last fall, it paid off almost immediately. The company found an experienced employee among the Ozarks Technical Community College students taking classes in the PMC. DT Engineering hired OTC student Ben…
Ozarks Technical Community College will offer accelerated, two-week manufacturing boot camps this summer to meet the needs of the industry. Students pay nothing to attend the boot camp, and financial grants are available for living expenses. Anyone may enroll in the class as long as they are at least 18 years old. The college will…
The Ozarks Technical Community College Foundation received a six-figure donation for the Robert W. Plaster Center for Advanced Manufacturing from The Durham Company and its affiliates, L&W Industries and GEC Durham Industries. Durham’s contribution will fund the Durham Company Student Lounge inside the Plaster Manufacturing Center. Jenny Carr, the President of L&W Industries, is a…
The Ozarks Technical Community College Foundation received a six-figure donation for the Robert W. Plaster Center for Advanced Manufacturing from long-time OTC Board of Trustees member Larry Snyder and his wife, Donna. Thanks to the Snyder’s generous contribution, the lobby at the Plaster Manufacturing Center will be named the Larry and Donna Snyder Atrium. First…
Amid humming machinery and whirring computer systems, OTC student Abigail Dotson has found her happy place. One of just three women in the college’s Industrial Systems Technology Program, Abbey hopes to become a mechanical engineer someday. “Taking stuff apart, fixing it and putting it back together – it’s just always something that I’ve enjoyed doing,”…
Robert Randolph was named the inaugural Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing at Ozarks Technical Community College. Randolph will help guide the implementation of the state-of-the-art technical education facility and manage its operations once it opens in August of 2022. The OTC Board of Trustees approved Randolph’s hiring at its monthly meeting today,…
OTC selects BatesForum, a full-service design and technology firm, to provide architectural services for its Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CAM) facility. The OTC Board of Trustees approved the proposal at its monthly board meeting held Feb. 11. Slated to open in 2022, the multi-million dollar building will serve as the regional hub for advanced manufacturing…
You’re probably familiar with the term, “keeping up with the Joneses,” but you’d be pressed to find a Jones harder to keep up with than OTC alum Brandon. In the last decade, Brandon Jones has earned his associate and bachelor’s degrees while working full time at SRC Electrical. Today, he’s nearly halfway through his master’s…