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VENUES STILL WAITING FOR CASH AFTER LOBBYING VICTORY: When the pandemic hit last year, concert and performing arts venues banded together to form the National Independent Venue Association, which spent months lobbying Congress to help them. They succeeded in December: Congress included a grant program for shuttered venues in the Covid relief.
Dive Brief:
AIDT, Alabama s state workforce development agency, is expanding its partnership with Hyundai Power Transformers (HPT) to provide access to virtual reality (VR) manufacturing training to unemployed workers and those who aspire to join the manufacturing industry, according to the Feb. 2 press announcement.
In the program, learners will have access to a VR simulation of HPT s seven-story manufacturing facility, according to the release. Within the simulation, workers gain first-hand invaluable experiences with the safety protocols required to operate heavy machinery and equipment of up to 400 tons, lifting power transformers as heavy as 800,000 pounds.
The partnership intends to address Gov. Kay Ivey s goal to add 500,000 highly skilled employees to Alabama s workforce by 2025.
Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation.
Hyundai Launches VR Training Initiative to Grow Manufacturing Talent in Alabama
February 2, 2021 GMT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 2, 2021
AIDT, Alabama’s state workforce development agency, today announced a statewide program in collaboration with Hyundai Power Transformers (HPT), the division of Hyundai Electric Systems that specializes in the manufacture of power transformers used in electrical grids across the U.S. Built in collaboration with immersive learning startup TRANSFR, the partnership is making job training in one of Alabama’s fastest-growing industries accessible to thousands of unemployed workers and aspiring manufacturing professionals across the state.