The Tesla apprenticeship program, the newspaper reported, was inspired by a Tesla executive’s tour of CCSD’s Southeast Career and Technical Academy, where students were learning about and building basic robotics systems.
“I’ll never forget leaving that school and saying, ‘We need a program,’” Chris Reilly, head of workforce development and education programs at Tesla, told the Review-Journal.
“The grant from Tesla is a game changer,” Kerry Larnerd, CCSD’s director of career and technology education, told the Review-Journal. “It’s getting us into the world our kids live in.”
Larnerd told the Review-Journal that in a district where many families cannot afford to put their kids through college, technology programs can give them hands-on experience and skill sets they can use to further their own educations.
