Battery Workforce Project
GRANT
The Bay Area Community Colleges have received a $160,000 grant from the Chancellor's office focused on developing flexible, hands-on training materials that community colleges can use to teach the fundamentals of battery design, safety, testing, and recycling. Grant details are here. Press release is here.
Over the next 18 months (through June 2027), we will map the needs for the Bay Area battery industry, benchmark and curate existing battery curriculum, and then develop additional curriculum that is needed for battery careers. This will consist of various modules that can be incorporated into existing classrooms (CC, K-12, adult education) or combined for a standalone class. In addition, apprenticeship program(s) will be developed.
COLLABORATION
We are working with the Electrochemistry Foundry (who just received a $28M CEC grant for a pilot battery manufacturing facility), Volta Foundation, UC-Berkeley, Battery Innovation Center (BIC) of Indiana, and a range of battery companies on this project.
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The Bay Area Community Colleges have received a $160,000 grant from the Chancellor's office focused on developing flexible, hands-on training materials that community colleges can use to teach the fundamentals of battery design, safety, testing, and recycling. Grant details are here. Press release is here.
Over the next 18 months (through June 2027), we will map the needs for the Bay Area battery industry, benchmark and curate existing battery curriculum, and then develop additional curriculum that is needed for battery careers. This will consist of various modules that can be incorporated into existing classrooms (CC, K-12, adult education) or combined for a standalone class. In addition, apprenticeship program(s) will be developed.
COLLABORATION
We are working with the Electrochemistry Foundry (who just received a $28M CEC grant for a pilot battery manufacturing facility), Volta Foundation, UC-Berkeley, Battery Innovation Center (BIC) of Indiana, and a range of battery companies on this project.
SIGN-UP FOR UPDATES
If you're interested in helping out with this grant, or being kept updated on its progress, please sign-up here.
