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IT Apprenticeship Program Expands To Oregon

Brian Bull
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KLCC

Today in Eugene, Oregon’s governor and a coalition of tech companies announced a new apprenticeship program they say will bolster the region’s IT sector. KLCC’s Brian Bull reports.

Governor Kate Brown met with members of the Technology Association of Oregon, Lane Workforce Partnership, and several local tech companies for a roundtable discussion on what’s called Apprenti.  The registered apprenticeship program debuted in Washington last year, and is now available in Eugene and Bend.

Allison Weatherly is with Technology Association of Oregon. She says she’s thrilled to have Apprenti in the state.

Credit Bryan Hockaday / Oregon Governor's Office.
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Oregon Governor's Office.
Governor Brown shakes hands with Cale Bruckner of Concentric Sky at today's roundtable discussion of Apprenti.

“And we’re very excited that Oregon is the second state to have companies join in and take on apprentices here," Weatherly tells KLCC. 

"Palo Alto Software, Concentric Sky, and IDX are our first three signed companies taking on apprentices in the next few months.” 

Weatherly says money from the Department of Labor is helping fund the effort. At least 45 apprentices are expected to be recruited over a three-year period.

Copyright 2017, KLCC.

Brian Bull is a contributing freelance reporter with the KLCC News department, who first began working with the station in 2016. He's a senior reporter with the Native American media organization Buffalo's Fire, and was recently a journalism professor at the University of Oregon.

In his nearly 30 years working as a public media journalist, Bull has worked at NPR, Twin Cities Public Television, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Wisconsin Public Radio, and ideastream in Cleveland. His reporting has netted dozens of accolades, including four national Edward R. Murrow Awards (22 regional),  the Ohio Associated Press' Best Reporter Award, Best Radio Reporter from  the Native American Journalists Association, and the PRNDI/NEFE Award for Excellence in Consumer Finance Reporting.
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