Great News! SSVT Wins $231,419 Vocational Equipment Grant

Hello SSVT Community,

At a ceremony at the State House on February 25, Governor Charlie Baker announced recipients of the $9.2 million Mass Skills Capital grant program.  

South Shore Vocational Technical High School was one of 35 school districts to receive funds out of 68 grant applicants.  The $231,419 grant award will be used to upgrade equipment and improve student access to curriculum in the Electronics, Precision Machine, Graphic Communications, Computer Information Technology, Electrical and HVAC programs.  The grant funds will also assist the school as it pursues Design/Visual Communications and Engineering Technology program approvals.

I am grateful to the Baker Administration and the legislature for recognizing the need to maintain current equipment in the Commonwealth’s vocational technical programs. Grant funding helps South Shore Vo-Tech fulfill its mission, eases the cost burden on our district communities, and assists local employers in their search for qualified candidates to fill job vacancies.  With theses funds we can expand our instructional reach, offering more learning opportunities to more students.  I am also very proud of our teachers in our vocational technical programs who provided essential information for the grant application, showing how these purchases will benefit our students and make them more marketable to area employers.

Grant funds will allow us to purchase Cyber Security training equipment for Computer Information Technology , a new surface grinder for Precision Machine Technology, student work stations and collaboration tables for Graphic Communications/Design Visual Communications program, Industrial Motor Control training stations for Electrical and HVAC programs, and student stations, test equipment, injection molding safety equipment, and fume hoods for Electronics.

Governor Charlie Baker (L) and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito (R)
presented each school with the grant awards.