Local upcoming CVTC spring graduates adapt to new learning, workforce
6 Apr 2020
The final semester of college is supposed to be about real-world learning, searching for employment and celebrating graduation.
For spring graduates, that ideal final months of school will be much different this year.
Riley Henneman, from Bloomer, is in his final semester of the automation engineering technology program at Chippewa Valley Technical College. Instruction typically involves the greatest amount of hands-on work as students near their point of entering the workforce, but with buildings closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been a challenge to receive the same level of learning.
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