The $39.6 million Technical Education Center was described as a state-of-the-art facility that trained skilled workers in high-growth, high-wage occupations for industries in Campbell County and Wyoming.
Workforce training
In the original navigation, this page sat under Workforce Development, then Workforce Training, alongside “Gillette College - I-TEC” and “High School Tech Programs.” The page said the Tech Center offered an environment rich with state-of-the-art equipment where students experienced situational work challenges firsthand.
Training centers
After the diesel technology center, the original page listed the following areas in this order:
- Welding Technology
- Industrial Electrical Technology
- Industrial Safety
- Engineering Technology
- Mining Technology
- Power Plant Training
The Tech Center also housed a Culinary Training Center with its own program kitchen and space for industry dinners of up to 300 people.
Access for younger students
High school and junior high school students had access to the Tech Center for additional learning opportunities. A district pre-engineering program had dedicated space for hands-on access to contemporary technologies.
The center in the larger CCEDC story
The 2001 business-owner letter said Campbell County’s labor force was well educated, that many residents held secondary degrees earned at the local college campus, and that the college provided technical programs and customized courses for industry. By 2014, the Technology Center page made that earlier claim tangible through a facility built around diesel, welding, electrical, safety, engineering, mining, power and culinary training.
That sequence explains why workforce development occupied one of the site’s seven primary navigation categories. The organization treated skills as economic infrastructure: a way to serve existing mineral and industrial work while also giving employers and workers a broader base of practical capability. The archived business-owner letter and Data Center provide the regional labor context.
The page’s order reinforced that message. It moved from the center’s total scale to the diesel area, then across the individual technical fields, and finally to culinary and younger-student access. The result was a compact picture of one facility serving several stages and kinds of workforce preparation.
For current institutional and program information, consult Gillette College’s official website.