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A meet-and-greet session with candidates is scheduled from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Beatrice Lee Community Center, 1310 N. 10th St., Kansas City, Kansas.
The event is sponsored by Unity with Purpose and the Kansas City, Kansas, Branch of the NAACP.
Candidates and the public are invited to the free event.
Students can become an advanced manufacturing technician with little or no cost in two years through Kansas City Kansas Community College’s Automation Engineer Technology program.
More information about this program is available at an upcoming open house from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, at the Dr. Thomas R. Burke Technical Education Center, 6565 State Ave. in Kansas City, Kansas. The event is free and open to the public.
Wyandotte County has more than 5,500 skilled jobs available with an average pay of $19.70 per hour. KCKCC is helping fill this gap with the AET program. Through its partnership with FAME (Federation of Advanced Manufacturing Education), students not only can be prepared for an in-demand career but finish debt free, according to a KCKCC spokesman.
KCKCC students will spend two days a week at the college and the other three days as a paid intern at a local manufacturer. This is an “earn while you learn” program. The open house will give those interested an opportunity to learn about the program, visit the new AET lab and meet the first cohort of AET FAME students.
First developed by Toyota, the FAME program serves to solve a local skills trade shortage while providing a pathway for people to earn a technical associate of science degree debt-free. Currently, there are 32 FAME chapters in 14 states, and participation continues to grow. Local manufacturing company leaders – Amsted Rail, Best Harvest Bakeries, Brill, Inc., Catalent, Empire Candle, INX International INK Co., TT Electronics and CH Guenther & Son dba Williams Foods, established the first FAME chapter in Kansas – the Kansas City FAME chapter. Supported by the Kansas Manufacturing Extension Partnership, Kansas Manufacturing Solutions, Wyandotte Economic Development Council and Workforce Partnership, the Kansas City FAME chapter expects to grow its membership base of manufacturing companies.
For more information on applying for the FAME internship program, visit the FAME KC website. For more information on the AMT program at KCKCC visit the website or contact Rich Piper.
– Story from Kelly Rogge, KCKCC public information manager
Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, and her opponent, Republican Derek Schmidt, will debate on Wednesday, Oct. 5, on KCPT-TV, the PBS station in Kansas City.
The debate will livestream from the DoubleTree Hotel in Overland Park at noon Wednesday and will be broadcast at 7 p.m. Wednesday on Channel 19.1.
Nick Haines of Week in Review will moderate the debate in partnership with the Johnson County Bar Association.
The debate is sponsored by AARP Kansas.