A 2024 Grant for Blue Ridge Technical Center

Project Lead the Way is a hands-on, innovative curriculum used for the engineering and architecture courses offered at Blue Ridge Technical Center. The courses use advanced software comparable to what students will encounter in future university study and/or industry. With the current computer hardware, start-up time for the software programs is slow, and certain software steps cause lag, forcing students to wait for the computer to process their input. The computer programming courses at BRTC are facing a similar situation, relying on increasingly outdated hardware that is unable to keep up with modern software demands. The grant will go toward purchasing new computers powerful enough to run the requisite software for these courses.