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| Small Business Development Center's Entrepreneurial Training Course Starts October 3 in Lowville September 14, 2019 10:15 a.m. |
SBDC Entrepreneur Class Comes to Lowville
College is offering its Entrepreneurial Training Course in two locations this fall to people interested in starting a new business or growing their existing one. The classroom course will be held over eight weeks on Thursday evenings from October 3- November 21, 2019 (no class October 31) in the JCC Extended Learning Center building on the campus in Watertown. The course features different speakers each week who are professionals in their fields: banking, marketing, accounting, insurance and business law. For the first time, the class is being offered simultaneously via live beaming to the distance learning classroom at the Lewis County JCC Education Center in Lowville. Participants there will be able to interact with the instructor and speakers. The Education Center was officially opened in January of this year and includes five instructional classrooms, a fabrication lab, a mechatronics classroom, a lab for BOCES engineering instruction, along with office, conference and administration space for Education Center partners. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Lewis County is also located in that building. The Center currently offers a mix of both credit and non-college credit bearing classes in the areas of agribusiness, hospitality and tourism, and advanced manufacturing, as well as a variety of professional development and personal enrichment workshops through the Workforce Development and Business Division. A 14-week online version of the Entrepreneurial Training Course is also available and will begin on October 7- January 10, 2020. It covers the same materials in seven modules with videos from local experts, but participants have two weeks to complete each section and work at their own pace and location on their own computer. The courses are co-sponsored by Jefferson Community College Workforce Development and Business, Jefferson Country Economic Development (JCED) and Watertown Local Development Corp. (WLDC). Either course costs $195. The courses are open to everyone in the north country. For these two courses, the SBDC is able to offer free tuition to veterans, military members and spouses through a special program income funding opportunity. Upon successful completion of the course, participants who are otherwise qualified will be eligible to apply for a low-interest, micro- enterprise loan of up to $40,000; there is also a microenterprise grant available in Lewis County. Pre-registration with payment is required, by cash, credit card or checks made payable to SBDC/JCC. Call the SBDC at 315-782-9262 or send your registration to: SBDC/JCC, 1220 Coffeen Street, Watertown, NY 13601. There is no refund after the class begins unless the course is cancelled. The deadline to register for the classroom version is September 30. For the online course, the registration deadline is October 2 and can be paid by a credit or debit card at https://oct19onlineetc.eventbrite.com or by calling 315-782- 9262. If participants are veterans, military or spouses, they should not pay online but should call the SBDC directly to register. This program is funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the US Small Business Administration. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance. |
