Workforce Development

Through our proposed workforce development strategy, we enhance America’s communities by offering disadvantages youths in underserved communities hope in their economic future via re-training and technical education. This Proposal aims to show how Silicon Heartland increases administrative oversight and transparency, protects American taxpayer dollars, attracts private capital, creates new technology ecosystems and collaborations, promotes equitable economic transitions within underserved communities and ensures sustainable innovations in our future in an ESG-focused way.

Nebraska Site

Nebraska colleges are extremely supportive of the Silicon Heartland proposal and what it has in the pipeline. Metropolitan Community College Nebraska and Iowa Western Community College are committed to adding training programs to upskill new students and existing workforce for the semiconductor industry. Both community colleges offer education pathways to schools such as University of Nebraska Omaha and University of Nebraska Lincoln where they can further educate to a four degree. These Universities want to collaborate with the silicon heartland to advance undergraduate and graduate training, workforce development, research and development, prototyping, and technology commercialization that will accelerate growth of a robust domestic semiconductor supply chain.

Workforce Development

R&D Projects

Kansas Site

Kansas has several workforce development schools such as Kansas City Kansas Community College, Johnson County Community College, and Metropolitan Community College Kansas that offer a large selection of programs to help students take it to the next level from career’s to the big University. These Community Colleges carry over into the big Universities such as Kansas State University, University of Kansas, and Wichita State University where they can help build the semiconductor industry.