CHIPOLA ADDS NEW PROGRAMS TO MEET AREA NEED
Chipola College will offer three new Work Force Programs in Electricity, Plumbing and HVAC/R beginning the Fall 2024 semester. These programs were chosen to meet the need for skilled workers in these areas in our local community and beyond.
Electricity is an industrial track focusing on broad, transferable skills, stressing the understanding of all aspects of the electricity industry and demonstrating elements such as planning, management, finance, technical and production skills as well as underlying principles such as technology, labor issues, community issues and health, safety and environmental issues. This program is 1,200 hours.
Plumbing is 1080 hour program which offers a sequence of courses designed to provide technical skill proficiency and competency in areas such as, but not limited to, reading construction documents, understanding building codes in the pipe trades, plumbing pipe cutting and joining skills and plumbing layout and installation.
HVAC/R is designed to prepare students for employment or advanced training in the heating, ventilation, air-conditioning/refrigeration (HVAC/R) industry during this 1,350 hour course. The focus will be on broad, transferable skills, the understanding of the heating, air-conditioning, refrigeration and ventilation industry and other elements of the industry such as planning, management, finance, technical and production skills, the underlying principles of technology, as well as health, safety and environmental issues.
Grant funds are available to pay tuition, books and fees for all three of these programs, along with Welding and Building Construction Technology, as part of the WRTP grant that will be in place through August 2025. Chipola College was one of the nine designated sites in Florida to receive the Community Development Block Grant for Disaster Recovery across the state after Hurricanes Irma and Michael. For eligibility for scholarships, please call Program Manager Joli Hartzog at 850-718-2457 to learn more.
These programs are open to all Chipola students including high school students dual enrolled at Chipola. Fall semester classes begin August 19th 2024 and Fall Registration begins July 8. To learn more about any of Chipola’s Work Force programs, please call 850-718-2457.