{"id":13294,"date":"2021-10-21T19:25:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T19:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/?p=13294"},"modified":"2021-10-21T19:25:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T19:25:06","slug":"gene-haas-foundation-awards-40000-grant-to-nash-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2021\/10\/gene-haas-foundation-awards-40000-grant-to-nash-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Haas Foundation Awards $40,000 Grant to Nash Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-13296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5767.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5767-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5767-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_5767-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Gene Haas Foundation has awarded Nash Community College a $40,000 grant to support scholarships and student competition teams.<\/p>\n<p>A portion\u00a0of the grant will support the sponsorship of a competition highlighting the CNC\/Machining program. Scholarships will be awarded to students who are currently enrolled or will be enrolled in a CNC technologist or CNC machining-based engineering program at NCC.<\/p>\n<p>The Gene Haas Foundation was founded in 1999 by Gene Haas, owner of Haas Automation, Inc., America\u2019s leading builder of CNC machine tools. Haas Automation, Inc. began in 1983 as a manufacturer of economical and reliable machine tools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nash Community College enjoys a long-standing relationship with the Gene Haas Foundation, and their generosity has assisted many students in preparing to enter the workforce,&#8221; Vice President of Advancement Pam Ballew said. &#8220;We remain extremely grateful to them for their commitment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In September 2021, the college held a ceremony to commemorate the naming of the Gene Haas Center for Advanced Manufacturing on the south end of campus. The building is used Electrical Systems Technology, Computer-Integrated Machining, Electronics Engineering Technology, and Robotics training.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gene Haas Foundation has awarded Nash Community College a $40,000 grant to support scholarships and student competition teams. A portion\u00a0of the grant will support the sponsorship of a competition&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2021\/10\/gene-haas-foundation-awards-40000-grant-to-nash-community-college\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13297,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294\/revisions\/13297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}