Northern Virginia Community College and Amazon.com Inc. partnered this week to lead a fiber-optic fusion splicing course and career networking session, during which nearly 40 participants learned the basics of the broadband technology in just two days, for free.
Many of the participants were NOVA students, enrolled in the community college’s information engineering technology department. Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Inc., an optic fiber manufacturer and data center solutions provider based in Raleigh, North Carolina, also partnered in the course and networking session on Wednesday and Thursday at NOVA’s Woodbridge campus.
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) launched the fusion splicing course in 2019, Ardine Williams, Amazon’s vice president of workforce development, said in an interview with the Washington Business Journal. Now, it’s included in Amazon’s workforce development efforts and commitment to train 29 million people globally in tech skills at no cost to them.
Williams, based in…
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