A group of Fond du Lac volunteers has been working on bringing awareness to the crime of trafficking in people for sex or labor, learning what is being done in our community, and how you can help to make Fond du Lac a Traffic Free Zone. Continue reading

This summer, 53 students successfully completed Moraine Park Technical College’s Nursing Assistant (CNA) boot camps – a rigorous three-week learning experience. Additional camps are planned for January and March, 2017!

Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College Career Training (TAACCCT) ACT 4 Healthcare Grant program, the CNA boot camps condense a typical 8- or 16-week, three-credit Nursing Assistant course into an accelerated format. They provide classroom theory, laboratory experience and clinical learning that teaches students the skills to perform duties such as taking vital signs, bathing, dressing, making beds, and other direct resident care. Community agencies are used for clinical learning and include long-term care settings. Offered at all Moraine Park campuses – Beaver Dam, Fond du Lac and West Bend – the grant funded CNA boot camps will continue through March of 2018. Continue reading

Moraine Park Technical College held an IT Careers Completion Ceremony on June 30. Three students received Content Management Systems certificates, two students received Website Security certificates, twelve students earned iOS Web Application Developer certificates, and ten students earned the Android Web Application Development certificate. Continue reading

Q:  What is the definition of a satellite?

A:  Satellites help scientists study Earth and space.

Q:  What kind of information can satellites provide?

A:  Satellites looking toward Earth provide information about clouds, oceans, land and ice. They also measure gases in the atmosphere, such as ozone and carbon dioxide, and the amount of energy that Earth absorbs and emits. And satellites monitor wildfires, volcanoes and their smoke.

Q:  How does this information help the world? Continue reading

There’s plenty to celebrate this month! Moraine Park Technical College was named the first Fair Trade technical college in the U.S in May 2015. So, we’ve now hit the one-year anniversary of this awesome honor! Also, World Fair Trade Day is coming up on May 14, and we encourage you to try to find your own ways to support the cause. Fair trade supports farmers and artisans in developing countries who are socially and economically marginalized.

If you are interested in supporting these farmers but you’re not sure where to start,  perhaps considering the everyday items you purchase may be a good place to look!

Here’s three popular items many people purchase on a weekly basis that would be an awesome choice to buy from Fair Trade to show support: Continue reading

Who are we and why are we celebrating?

We are MPACTE!  The mission of MPACTE (Moraine Park Association for Career & Technical Education) is to provide leadership for the promotion and enhancement of high quality career and technical education, at all levels, in a diverse and changing economic, social and technical environment. Continue reading

One of the most pressing needs for businesses in Wisconsin, as well as the nation, is for workers to have basic to advanced levels of information technology (IT) skills regardless of career sector. The Department of Labor notes that “In today’s global economy, advancement in technology applications extends across multiple industries, creating the demand for transferable, basic IT skills and competencies among new hires and incumbent workers at almost all levels of employment.” Continue reading

Moraine Park is helping to combat the skilled worker shortage in the health care field by offering a Medical Assistant training program at the West Bend Campus. The three-year “ACT for Health Care” TAACCCT 4 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor was awarded in October, 2014. Continue reading

Did you know Moraine Park is a Fair Trade College?  Actually we are the first Fair Trade technical college in the U.S.  Go MPTC!  In May, 2016 we will celebrate our one year anniversary as a fair trade college!

What is Fair Trade?

Fair trade supports farmers and artisans in developing countries who are socially and economically marginalized. These producers lack economic opportunity and often face steep hurdles in finding markets and customers for their goods. Fair Trade is about making a tremendous impact on artisan and farmer communities while offering great products to the public all around the world. Continue reading