Cochise College provides accessible educational opportunities that are responsive to a diverse population and lead to constructive citizenship, meaningful careers and lifelong learning. The college offers quality instruction, transferable degrees, valuable workforce training, and online education in a wide range of disciplines from Business Management, over Fine Arts, Mathematics to different educational fields in technology.

Cochise College opened in 1964 as one of the first community colleges in Arizona. Today, they provide high-quality associate’s-level education, professional development and workforce training to about 14,000 students each year.

For more information please visit www.cochise.edu

Greenville Technical College

Greenville Technical College is a public 2-year college in South Carolina, USA. It was established in the early 1960s and currently offers over 160 academic programs. On its four campuses 14,000 academic students and more than 54,000 continuing education registrants prepare for today’s and tomorrow’s career opportunities or prepare to pursue a four-year degree and beyond.

Surrounded by world-class manufacturing and business leaders, including BMW, Michelin, Lockheed Martin and others, Greenville Tech offers excellent training and placement opportunities to students. Moreover, Greenville Tech students benefit from extensive hands-on training, internships, co-op programs, and partnerships with area business and industry.

For more information, please visit: www.gtbmc.com

Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS)

The Kentucky Community and Technical College Systems (KCTCS) is the umbrella organization for a number of SMSCP partner schools as well as the Preferred Provider for course-specific Instructor Certification training for the SMSCP in North America.

Since its creation in 1997, KCTCS has become the largest provider of postsecondary education and workforce training in the Commonwealth. In fact, for most Kentuckians, the journey to higher education begins here - at one of the 16 colleges located on 65 campuses across the state. KCTCS is making higher education more accessible, more relevant and more responsive to citizen, employer and community needs, with a goal of doubling its enrollment by the year 2020. KCTCS has more than 81,000 students enrolled in credit programs as of 2007.

Motlow State Community College

Motlow State Community College is one of thirteen community colleges governed by the Tennessee Board of Regents, the sixth largest system of higher education in the USA. The College is located in Lynchburg, Tennessee, USA, and was founded in 1969.

Today, the college offers high quality two-year associate degree programs and certificates in a variety of educational fields for a student body of about 5000 students. Students of all ages come to Motlow to improve and/or update their existing career skills and knowledge by completing a certificate program, or to complete a two-year program of study for the purpose of entering the workforce or transferring to a 4-year school to complete an undergraduate baccalaureate degree.

For more information please visit www.mscc.edu

Lehigh Career & Technical Institute (LCTI)

Lehigh Career & Technical Institute (LCTI) was founded in 1971 and is one of the largest career and technical schools in Pennsylvania and the United States offering over 50 areas of skills training in a state-of-the-art facility. LCTI provides workforce and industry-relevant educational programs and industry credentials to high school students, adults, incumbent workers and business/industry. A fully blended learning approach integrates theory and extensive hands-on practical experience in state-of-the-art labs with supplemental online learning options.

LCTI is partnered with key community groups including the Lehigh Valley Workforce Investment Board, LVEDC, the Manufacturers Resource Center and is the training provider of choice for many companies in the region.

Visit http://www.lcti.org/ for more information and to view their online videos.

Piedmont Technical College

Piedmont Technical College (PTC) is part of the TechReadySC collaboration in upstate South Carolina. The college was established in 1966 and since then Piedmont Technical College has maintained a long-standing history as a successful public, comprehensive, two-year institution, meeting the needs of today’s students by constantly introducing new programs and updating facilities and equipment.

Today 5,600 students are enrolled at Piedmont Technical College. In the fall of 2008, PTC introduced a Mechatronics Technology program with 14 students and by the fall of 2009 the program has increased to 29 students. Piedmont Technical College is the first college in South Carolina to receive approval for the Associate Degree in Applied Science in Mechatronics Technology.

For more information, please visit www.ptc.edu

Spartanburg Community College

Spartanburg Community College (SCC) is a public, suburban, two-year comprehensive, open-admission institution of higher education. It has been a leading provider of technical, higher education in Upstate South Carolina for over 40 years, offering over 80 programs of study at three campus locations. Each year over 15,000 Upstate residents utilize SCC’s services for credit and non-credit classes.

For more information, please visit: www.sccsc.edu

California University of Pennsylvania

California University of Pennsylvania is a diverse, caring and scholarly learning community dedicated to excellence in the liberal arts, science and technology, and professional studies.

For more than 150 years Cal U has been known for its educational excellence and for its commitment to the core values of Integrity, Civility and Responsibility.

As a proud member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Cal U serves more than 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Since 2004, The Princeton Review has ranked Cal U as one of the best regional universities in the Northeast.

For more information please visit www.calu.edu

Corporate Partners

Amatrol

Founded in 1981, Amatrol has a long history of designing world-class industrial automation training systems. Amatrol designs and manufactures turn-key learning systems that replicate workplace conditions. Amatrol's learning systems include training equipment with industry standard components, theoretically sound student learning materials that include practical, industrial skills, teacher assessment guides, highly interactive multimedia as well as eLearning alternatives.

Amatrol has received multiple awards and honors for its industry-leading products and is proud to be the Preferred Equipment Partner for SMSCP. In addition to industrial automation training systems, Amatrol offers a wide range of learning systems for high schools, community colleges, universities and other industry needs. Visit them at

http://www.amatrol.com/ for more information.