Twelve Medical Assistant students at the West Bend Campus are in their  final countdown towards graduation in September, 2017!  Students are practicing in labs and clinical training, learning about the soft skills employers are looking for, and getting ready to start their practicum assignments at healthcare employers throughout the MPTC district in July. Continue reading

Moraine Park Technical College held our final IT Careers Completion Ceremony on March 6, 2017 through the U.S. Department of Labor Interface grant program.  In 2014 Moraine Park received $995,662 of a $23.1 million statewide project.  In total, 93 MPTC students earned 126 certificates helping to prepare them for IT careers.  To date, 24 students have used their certificates into career pathways towards IT Associate degrees. Continue reading

On September 29, 2016 ten students successfully completed Moraine Park Technical College’s Medical Assistant first one year long cohort at the West Bend Campus. The second cohort is already in progress, planning to complete in September of 2017, according to Anne Lemke, TAACCCT 3 & 4 grant manager. 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

Moraine Park Technical College held an IT Careers Completion Ceremony on March 8. Fourteen students received Website Security certificates and three students received Content Management Systems certificates.  Two students, Becky Scannell, and Adam Skeel received special congratulations for completing all four of the certificates earned through the U.S. Department of Labor Interface grant program:  http://www.morainepark.edu/itcareers Continue reading

If you are interested in taking the first step to a health care career,  CNA summer boot camps – through our U.S. Department of Labor grant – might be the way to go!  The first step to apply to the grant is to attend an upcoming spring information session.  Sign up here!  There are dates and time choices available at all 3 campuses. Continue reading