THE SHOALS– The Shoals Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with 
Northwest-Shoals Community College, will host the 2013 Shoals Summer Technology Institute for Educators beginning on Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Govenor Robert Bentley
“We have gotten tremendous response from the participants from the very beginning, many saying it’s the best professional development they’ve ever attended and has the most real-world application for their students,” said Stephanie 
Newland, Workforce Development Coordinator at the Shoals Chamber of Commerce.
Twelve educators from Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Jefferson, Lauderdale and Lawrence counties will spend six days touring local industries, discussing workplace needs with business leaders and visiting the technical programs at Northwest-Shoals to see how math and science, as well as other academic and soft skills, are needed in the workplace.
Tours will include: SCA Tissue – Barton operation, NAVISTAR, TVA-Power Service Shops, G & G Steel, and Alabama Robotics Technology Park – open house with Governor Robert Bentley, Mangus Tool & Die, TASUS Corp., Wilson Lock, Shoals Hospital, Applied Chemical Technologies, and the Shoals Entrepreneurial Center.
This is the sixth year for the program.
For more information, please contact:
Mary-Marshall VanSant,
Marketing and Communications Coordinator
Shoals Chamber of Commerce
256-764-4661
