Wake Tech News

Local businesses gathered in Research Triangle Park today to hear plans for Wake Technical Community College's future RTP Campus. The state-of-the-art campus will be built on an 86-acre site off NC Highway 54, near I-40 and 540, to serve the training needs of local industry and prepare highly-skilled technicians and professionals to meet the demands of our growing region.

Dr. Stephen Scott, president of Wake Technical Community College, today announced that Amanda Batchelor, a student in the Computer and Engineering Technologies Division, has received a $500 scholarship for her design of a logo for the Sphere Business Incubator in Fuquay-Varina.

Students in Wake Tech's Solar Thermal training class installed a solar hot water system in a specially outfitted trailer at the college's Northern Wake Campus today. Entrepreneurs, contractors, and inspectors with the City of Raleigh got hands-on training that will continue tomorrow between 8:00 a.m. and noon.

Dr. Stephen Scott, president of Wake Technical Community College, is proud to announce a record 1,125 students made the President's List or Dean's List for the Spring 2011 semester. That's a 31% increase over the same period last year!

Wake Technical Community College is one of five North Carolina community colleges that will participate in a national effort to help more young people obtain a degree, certificate or credential. Wake Tech, Guilford Tech, Central Piedmont, Martin and Davidson community colleges will share a $500,000 planning grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Dr. Stephen Scott, president of Wake Technical Community College, is pleased to announce that the college has been awarded the 2011 Smith Seal of NC Large Business Sustainability Award by the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce.

Four Architectural Technology students from Wake Technical Community College are celebrating their success this month in the 2011 North Carolina Sustainable Building Design Competition.

Wake Tech had an unexpected visitor Wednesday night. Governor Bev Perdue stopped by the Public Safety Education Campus to talk with students in some high demand short-term training classes. She spoke with students in a ten-week Heating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration course, as well as those in a three-month Certified Nursing Assistant class.

Wake Technical Community College was well represented at Phi Beta Lambda's State Leadership Conference. Wake Tech students brought home 23 awards, including six first place honors. Phi Beta Lambda is the national academic fraternity for students in business and leadership.