Creating pathways: Springfield’s Tech Foundry celebrates latest graduates, $50K grant from MassTech

Before she started training at Tech Foundry, Damaris Ortiz of Springfield didn’t know how to leap from classes at Springfield Technical Community College into the career she wanted working with computers. Erwin Bates of Ludlow was laid off in December and didn’t want to go back to the factory jobs he’d had since getting out of the Marines in 1994. “I’d always been interested in IT, hobby programming, learning on my own time,” Bates said.

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