ETCOTA - the concept.

06. ETCOTA: the solution.

The College’s Emerging Technologies Center of the Americas (the ETCOTA) is prepared to help fulfill these workforce needs with Florida residents.

Almost 40,000 square feet of space in the downtown campus’ Parking Facility, only two blocks from the NAP of the Americas, is about to be inaugurated.

Miami-Dade Community College has been granted a $7.9 million for the build-out, for high tech networking infrastructure and for equipment to take this shell space and create a dynamic, state-of-the-art technology-training center to rival any in the world.

The Emerging Technologies Center of the Americas Project is included in the Commissioner of Education’s budget request; it has the support of the IT Florida Task Force, the State Board of Community Colleges, the InternetCoast, the NAP of the Americas, the Miami Internet Alliance, the Beacon Council, and many others.

This Project will allow Miami-Dade Community College to serve approximately 20,000 individuals with the kind of skill-based training and educational opportunities they need to succeed in this new high tech economy.

The numbers

Miami-Dade Community College has planned 39,000 gross sq. ft. for a state-of-the-art IT and Telecom training facility just two blocks away from the NAPs that wil count on:

375 high tech training stations
20 classrooms and technology labs
High tech demonstration areas

Yielding over 1,000 training sessions per year
Training over 20,000 people per year

Be part of the Emerging Technologies Center and secure your future by receiving cutting edge information technology training in ETCOTA's Connected Community of Students, Educators, Industry and Community Leaders.

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