Business View Magazine | September 2022

48 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 9 www.firsteched.com 800.787.9717 First Technologies is proud to partner with Mid-State Technical College to deliver Mechatronics and Automation Training. There will be some renewable energy ties in the facility, as well. They will have enough structural ability to put a photovoltaic array on top of the structure in the years to come. Kawski notes, “We’re not going to actually build it right away, but we’ll have all the electrical chases, all the infrastructure available, and the physical wall space for systems ready to go. Then a couple years from now, we’ll be able to invest as a college in that photovoltaic array and we’ll have our students install it.” Mid-State did a similar install on their downtown Stevens Point campus a few years back. Their students put in a 50 kilowatt commercial solar array on top of that campus as part of a summer school class. “We had all of the cells donated through the Couillard Solar Foundation’s Solar on Schools initiative,” explains Kawski. “We just had to pick up the cost of the rack and wiring and do the install work. It was a great experience for our students, so we’ll