BRENTWOOD — Playing in the sandbox with big rigs is key to the curriculum at Heavy Construction Academy. On any given day, 30 students — many of them veterans looking for a new career after the ...

SAN ANTONIO — Alamo Colleges has created a new high school-to-career academy. Credit the Eagle Ford Shale for this one. The Heavy Equipment Academy, the fifth such program operated by the community ...

Nov. 28—From the seat of a skid-steer loader, the driver navigated a heavy parcel of concrete blocks onto an elevated flat surface. Controlling the virtual experience was a high school student at the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The North Alabama ...

At the Alamo Colleges' Heavy Equipment Academy, dissected motor parts whir and hum as the school's inaugural class gets gritty. The high school-to-career academy, which opened this August and provides ...

Separate training opportunities for jobs in heavy-equipment operation and apartment maintenance were unveiled this week. Members of a class of heavy-equipment operation trainees practiced moving dirt ...

SALINEVILLE – Utica Shale Academy is building its learning arsenal with an equipment donation from the former W.H. Sammis Plant in Stratton. USA Superintendent Bill Watson said Bryan Donatelli, ...

BALDWIN COUNTY, Ga. — When forest fires happen, it's the job of forestry commissions and fire departments to work together. That's what the Southern Area Geographic Area Heavy Equipment Operator ...

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