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Pennsylvania Grants NuPaths $250K for IT Career Exploration

The information technology workforce development training provider will provide career exploration and training for 72 sophomores and juniors at seven high schools in Cumberland and Dauphin counties.

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Harrisburg University at the corner of Fourth and Market streets. Harrisburg University is planning to expand its campus with a high-rise building on the corner of Third and Chestnut streets in Harrisburg.
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(TNS) — A program affiliated with Harrisburg University of Science & Technology has received a $250,000 grant from the state.

NuPaths, an information technology workforce development training provider, said it received the grant to provide career exploration and training for 72 sophomores and juniors at seven high schools in Cumberland and Dauphin counties.

“The $250,000 grant provides students with IT career exploration opportunities and the ability to earn industry certifications and college credits while in high school,” Andy Petroski, president of NuPaths, said in a news release. “The experience with the NuPaths courses will help build solid career paths to employment or post-secondary education.”

In the upcoming school year, students from Big Spring, Carlisle, Central Dauphin, Cumberland Valley, Harrisburg, South Middleton, and Susquehanna Township high schools will participate in an online afterschool course to earn an industry certification and college credits. Thirty of the students who complete the afterschool program will be selected to enroll in a NuPaths pre-apprenticeship program as juniors and seniors during the 2023-2024 school year.

Launched in 2018, NuPaths is a college alternative for recent high school graduates, veterans and those in career-transition. Students learn information technology skills and receive certifications. NuPaths also works with high school students through programs embedded into the school day and in afterschool programs. NuPaths has educated more than 400 students, who have earned more than 750 certifications and almost 1,700 college credits. NuPaths has worked with high school students from 25 school districts.

Information: www.nupaths.org.

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