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PBS Newshour Valencia College and UCF Featured on PBS NewsHour for Efforts to Help Low-Income Students Finish College

The smart sensor project currently underway in Osceola County is big and some call it a game changer, but the president of University of Central Florida thinks it’s much more than that. During a panel discussion July 15 at the Florida Economic Development Conference, UCF President John Hitt was asked what he thought about the…

A year after it was created, The International Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research is planning its “coming out party” at the nation’s leading semiconductor manufacturing conference, which runs July 14-16 in San Francisco. Last June, the University of Central Florida, Osceola County and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council committed funding and resources to develop…

Valencia College had a dilemma. When it got a $2.5 million federal grant under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training initiative in 2014 to expand training and education in high-tech manufacturing, it was missing a key component: A manufacturing training center. Wanting to get started on training the future workforce due to…

A ribbon cutting and open house for the The Carrousel Therapy Center was held on May 18, 2014. The Center is a 14,200 square foot state of the art facility that offers unique interdisciplinary and centralized therapy and behavioral health services in Central Florida.

Osceola County’s first trauma center is now open, an addition local officials say will save lives.

Osceola County already has seen one transition in its consumer power base from agriculture to tourism. The next seismic shift could be to becoming a manufacturing base. The proposed Florida Advanced Manufacturing Research Center under construction just east of Kissimmee will lead much of the new push in the technology-manufacturing field. But many other Central…