By Mick Akers
Students and instructors are shown in the advanced manufacturing lab at the Southeast Career and Technical Academy, Wednesday, May 23, 2018.
The high school seniors wore Tesla hats as they operated the various machines inside the Southeast Career Technical Academy’s advanced manufacturing lab in Las Vegas.
Soon, they’ll be working full-time at the Tesla factory in Northern Nevada.
Tesla partnered with the Clark County School District, the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development and the state community college system to create the Tesla Manufacturing Development Program. It began last year as a pilot program, sending 13 students to employment with the electric vehicle company out of last year’s graduating class.
The Southeast Career and Technical Academy (SECTA), and Mojave and Desert Rose high schools participated in this year’s program.
Proudly displaying their knowledge of the different machines in SECTA’s advanced manufacturing lab, the 15 students in this year’s graduating class signed letters of intent to work for Tesla in a signing ceremony last week. Tesla officials didn’t indicate the salary of its new employees.
“Today is the most exciting day in my entire life,” said Quran Broussard Jr., a senior at Mojave.
“I can’t wait to go to Tesla and do their training, so we can make these things right here,” he added while pointing to a blue Tesla SUV.
The students worked on various functions of the manufacturing industry, including computer programming and design, motherboards and motion control.
To help motivate this year’s crop of students, Tesla hosted a field trip to its gigafactory so they could see the site and hear from the 13 who had already gone through the program.
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