St. Petersburg College receives $7.2 million in state funding for workforce training

St. Petersburg College’s Midtown Center hosted Governor Ron DeSantis’s press conference where he announced a $7.2 million investment into the college’s workforce development and infrastructure program through the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund and the Workforce Development Capitalization Incentive Grant.

SPC was awarded $3.2 million from the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund and $4 million from the Workforce Development Capitalization Incentive Grant.

SPC will use the funding to develop a state-of-the-art 4.0 Lab at its Midtown campus and expand its short-term training programs for semiconductors, mechatronics, automation and robotics.

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