Quick status report on our MassGREEN Initiative Weatherization Installer Course:
1. The expert review of our curriculum is complete and, as a result, the Weatherization Installer Course has been dubbed by our reviewers as “impressive,” “unique,” “comprehensive,” and reflective of the very best practices in the weatherization field. (Our thanks to Peter Talmage, David Fuller, and Peter Wingate for their time and expertise!)
2. All text materials have been very professionally rendered and have gone to the printer.
3. Our four pilot colleges (STCC, Greenfield CC, North Shore CC, and Bristol CC) now have weatherization training facilities that are fully equipped with what seems like every conceivable weatherization training prop and structural mock-up both known to modern man and sanctioned by BPI. They also have all of the equipment they need to set up a classroom on site.
4. All imaginable necessary safety gear, hand tools, power tools, building materials, supplies, and technical tools are available and ready to put into action–including individual tool kits for use by students while taking the course.
5. Fourteen, well qualified instructor trainees (representing up to 12 of the state’s community colleges) will arrive here at STCC next Tuesday to participate in a comprehensive, 4-day Training of Trainers program using our brand new weatherization training space. Each has been supplied with a draft copy of the curriculum to review prior to TOT, and all seem very pleased to be part of the MassGREEN Initiative.
6. The TOT trainers (from CET and CSG) are primed and ready to work with our instructor trainees.
7. The food has been ordered, directional signs and name tags in the works, and last minute classroom set up scheduled.
8. The four pilot schools have launched their marketing plans for the course and are beginning to register students.
9. And, the four pilot courses will roll out between 9/28 and 10/14 according to each school’s scheduling.