(Beaver Dam) Moraine Park Technical College passed a $55-million-dollar referendum in November 2022 that gave the college the opportunity to expand. The first phase included the addition of a fire training facility providing students with hands on training featuring live fire conditions, burning with props, and controlled fire situations for a lower risk training experience.
The second phase provided the West Bend Campus with a manufacturing, automation, and robotics lab. Vice President of Teaching and Learning Doug Hamm says the project is now in its third phase.
“[We are] adding 40,000 square feet to our West Bend facility again in that air center mentality,” says Hamm. “We’re actually calling it ARM in West Bend. That’s Automation, Arm, Robotics and Manufacturing. So, we’re doing much the same as we did in Fon du Lac in West Bend, and that will be wrapping up sometime in late spring.”
Hamm says open house for phase three is scheduled for next September. He adds there is a fourth and final phase at the Fon du Lac campus.
“We’re adding on to our healthcare wing, Hamm says. “We call it the E wing, where we’re going to be adding 19,000 square feet onto the building, and it’s going to have brand new nursing simulations, surgical assistants, medical, respiratory therapy.”
Hamm says the expansion will greatly benefit all the healthcare programs the college offers.
