AUBURN — The Gene Haas Foundation has donated $50,000 to the CMCC Education Foundation for the 2017-18 academic year.
The funds will provide scholarships to new and continuing students in the precision machining technology program at Central Maine Community College.
The Haas Foundation has contributed over $150,000 to the college and foundation for scholarships in the past several years.
The program at CMCC, one of the largest in the Northeast, offers a two-year associate in applied science degree, a one-year certificate and an advanced certificate. Students are trained in conventional and computer numerical control machining.
Graduates of the program are employed as machine operators, computer numerical control machinists, tool and die makers, quality control inspectors, machine assemblers, machine tool designers, computer numerical control programmers or field service representatives.
Marc Lapointe, left, a Haas computer numerical control sales associate, presents a check for $50,000 from the Gene Haas Foundation to Central Maine Community College President Scott Knapp.
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