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Motlow State Community College in McMinnville will begin offering new robotics classes next week.
Executive Director Larry Flatt said courses at the new Automation & Robotics Training Center will help prepare students for the future.
“It is all about training young men and women to receive jobs that allow them to have a good income and enhance their life,” Flatt said. “Our students that are currently in mechatronics in their sophomore level can now choose a concentration in robotics.”
Motlow State officials hosted grand-opening celebrations at the new facility last Friday.
Flatt said the new facility will teach students how to use some of the best and most-common robotics technology being used today.
“We’ve already got classes scheduled with two of the major suppliers through December,” Flatt said. “Obviously the challenge is to fill those classes because they’re not inexpensive to teach. We need somewhere between not less than six and the maximum class size is 12…Those semester classes will start in August with the normal semester.”
Flatt noted that the new robotics center will also help in recruiting new students not just from middle Tennessee, but bordering states like Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
Motlow State will host an open house event for its new robotics center Wednesday, May 8 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The new building is located at 225 Vo-Tech Drive in McMinnville.
More information on the robotics center can be found by visiting roboticstraining.com.
