NIMS, Gene Haas Foundation Announce Second Year of Scholarships
The GHF-NIMS Credentialing Scholarship Award provided financial support to more than 1,000 students last year.
The National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS, Fairfax, Virginia) and the Gene Haas Foundation (GHF, Oxnard, California) have announced that they will partner again this year to help schools prepare students for careers in precision manufacturing. The 2015 GHF-NIMS Credentialing Scholarship Program will provide eligible secondary and post-secondary institutions with grants to build technical programs that provide students with foundational skills and credentials for manufacturing jobs. The grants will cover as much as 100 percent of the costs of testing and credentialing services for all students seeking NIMS certifications. The program will launch this year with a $100,000 investment from GHF.
In 2014, the scholarship program provided financial support to more than 1,000 individuals at 22 high schools and colleges in 16 states to pursue NIMS certifications. The organizations estimate that 3,500 credentials in foundational CNC machining will be earned as a result.
