By Greg Oliver LIBERTY – United Tool and Mold Inc. President Scott Phipps said that in order for the U.S. to regain its position as market leaders, preparing the employees of tomorrow is now a must. As a result, United Tool and Mold Inc. is teaming up with The Pickens County Career and Technology Center…
By Jennifer Crossley Howard LIBERTY — The School District of Pickens County has long prepared high school students for careers in machine technology at United Tool and Mold. On Wednesday, the school district and the company formalized their relationship and announced an apprenticeship program. The district’s Career and Technology Center, Apprenticeship Carolina and United Tool…
By Lonnie Adamson EASLEY — Area economic development officials are taking steps to quantify workforce abilities as a tool for attracting new industry. The new program is called WorkReady, and state officials are working on funding options to make it available statewide. The statewide endeavor began with interest from Pickens, Oconee and Anderson economic developers.…
Editorial Some significantly progressive planned improvements to the region’s economic development effort came to light in Easley last week. It involves the use of something called the WorkReady program essentially to market our region and state to outside business development. It may offer other advantages beyond its initial production of a listing of available skills.…
Comatrol, a manufacturer of hydraulic cartridge valves located in Easley, was recently named as one of the 2012 Best Places to Work in South Carolina. The annual award, sponsored by SCBIZ Magazine, the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and Best Companies Group, recognizes companies across the state that provide outstanding work environments for their employees.…
Ray Farley, the Executive Director of Alliance Pickens, was recently presented with the “Outstanding Business and Industry Friend of Career and Technology Education Award” by the South Carolina Association of School Administrator’s Career and Technology Education Division. The annual award is given to a member to the business and industry community that has demonstrated his…
By Greg Oliver LIBERTY — Sealevel, a manufacturing facility that opened 26 years ago, has added 20 new employees, a new circuit assembly line and undergone two major facility expansions during the past year-and-a-half. On Tuesday, business and industry leaders gathered at the plant’s site on S.C. 93 in Liberty to celebrate the news and…
By Liz Segrist Liberty-based Sealevel plans to hire five people and invested $2.5 million to accommodate its facility expansion. Sealevel unveiled its new circuit assembly line and expanded manufacturing facility during a Tuesday announcement by Sealevel executives, Pickens County Council and Alliance Pickens. The hires will be for engineers and process control associates. The investment…
PICKENS COUNTY — STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) programs available to students in the Pickens County school district show that there are viable career options for those children who are not interested in what some view as a more traditional, four-year university education. Ray Farley, executive director of Alliance Pickens, recently organized a dinner…
LIBERTY — Alliance Pickens and the School District of Pickens County celebrated distinguished students and teachers at a dinner banquet on Tuesday, May 22, at the new Career and Technology Center in Liberty. At the close of “Pickens County Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM): An Evening of Celebration,” the SDPC was presented with a…
Liberty, SC – Just a little more than a week after local business and industry came together to raise more than $10,000 to support the School District of Pickens County’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) initiatives, a Pickens County company is raising the bar with another donation aimed at supporting technical education. United Tool…
PICKENS COUNTY – Daniel High School is South Carolina’s top traditional public high school according to U.S. News & World Report’s rankings released last week. Only Charleston’s Academic Magnet High School and the Charleston County School of the Arts ranked above the Pickens County school. Sharon Huff, principal, said, “I am very proud of our…
PICKENS COUNTY — Alliance Pickens and the School District of Pickens County are working together to celebrate a group of students that have distinguished themselves in the subject areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or STEM as they are collectively referred to. The event, “Pickens County Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, an Evening of…
In what has become an annual occurrence, the School District of Pickens County is once again home to the South Carolina State Champion mechatronics team. Mechatronics programs teach students to combine mechanical and electrical engineering principles and since 2004, the team from Pickens County has won first place 7 times at the statewide SkillsUSA competition…
Daniel High School is South Carolina’s top traditional public high school according to U.S. News & World Report’s rankings released yesterday. Only Charleston’s Academic Magnet High School and the Charleston County School of the Arts ranked above the Pickens County school. Sharon Huff, principal, said, “I am very proud of our students and teachers. Our…
By: Billy Cannada PICKENS COUNTY-Two teams from Clemson Elementary, the “Electric Lemons” and team “JDW” took home highest honors at the Society of Automotive Engineers’ International JetToy competition in Detroit, Michigan last week. Led by their teacher Meredith Cross, the fifth graders were named Grand Champions at the event. The teams included; Jakob Ables, Will…
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By Julie Howle Say a rock band went on tour, stopping in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Missouri and South Dakota, and the band contracted an illness. Now it’s your job to figure out where they got it. Doesn’t sound like your traditional seventh-grade science query, does it? But soon, seventh-graders in one Pickens County middle school…
Greenwood, SC – Pickens County was presented with the Rural Education Award for the Business and Industry Showcase by Governor Nikki Haley at the 22nd Annual Rural Summit sponsored by the South Carolina Department of Commerce. The Business and Industry Showcase, a collaborative effort sponsored by Pickens, Anderson and Oconee Counties, reaches approximately 5,000 8th…
After a year that has included hosting summer camps, fundraising at Clemson footballs games and countless hours building their robot, members of Pickens County FIRST Robotics Team 2751 were excited to finally see their robot in action at the Smoky Mountains Regional Competition held in Knoxville, TN. For two days, 54 robotics teams, some from…
PICKENS COUNTY – It’s not every day that you get to be part of a team that designs, builds and teaches a robot to play basketball, but that is exactly what the members of Pickens County FIRST Robotics Team 2751 are doing. This year, FIRST Robotics teams from around the world are tasked with constructing…