North Alabama business leaders listen to plans for a new "space roundtable" in the auditorium of the Space Camp Operations Center at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.Alabama aerospace and tech business leaders met in Huntsville Monday to hear a new plan to find and train the employees space and technology industries will need in Alabama and nationally in coming decades.
“These best practices will be demonstrated first here in north Alabama, where we’ve already got so much of it going on,” said organizer Stephanie McCullough of North Alabama Works. “But then it will also be implemented nationwide utilizing these best practices.” Job training organizations, nonprofits and others “in the workforce arena” will be included, McCullough said. “There is work to be done entry level as well as a lot of opportunity for students through these enrollment programs even at the high school level. There are entry level positions that just take a little bit of education.”