How $1M gift will transform Augusta Tech automotive campus

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Nearby businessman Jim Hudson donated $1 million to Augusta Tech, on top rated of the $1 million Augusta National pledged in April.

The program is to shift their complete automotive education campus to the outdated Johnson Motor Business on Walton way.

Here’s how it’s prepping college students for an field in major require of workers.

Some learners like Andrew Chavez, who are enrolled in Augusta Tech’s automotive software, he’s about to be the initial person to graduate college in his loved ones.

“I have a correct enthusiasm for this. I have an uncle who mounted vehicles escalating up, and I want to abide by in people footsteps,” he explained.

The big check out is just one way of serving to to change Augusta Tech’s auto schooling system.

Martia Moore, student said: “The program itself… I’m just heading to continue on to increase with it, and it is just great to be a aspect of a milestone for this college alone.”

The system is to move this 10,000-sq.-foot garage to the Johnson Motor Enterprise on Walton Way.

“The automotive marketplace is consistently escalating,” she said.

They’ll remodel this area into a 65,000-sq.-foot point out-of-the-art automotive campus, using the latest developing.

The purpose is to fill the regional need in the automotive field.

“I believe the need for specialists in the automotive marketplace suitable now is particularly high. We want them worse than we need anything else,” he claimed.

Augusta Tech will provide 16 certification systems to extra than 1,200 students.

Jermain Whirl, Augusta Tech president said: “We’re actually likely to be equipped to maximize our ability, choose in much more students, and boost the workforce.”

They’re hoping this method will assistance teach students for the long term with electrical motor vehicle schooling when sitting down in the coronary heart of downtown Augusta.

Jim Hudson, operator of Jim Hudson Automotive Team said: “We’re not just undertaking something for this great faculty and walking away. This is a beginning issue.”

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