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Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington was recently awarded a $240,000 Advanced Technical Education grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a curriculum that prepares students for the demands of the modern manufacturing environment. The award is part of a larger grant of $880,000 awarded to a regional partnership of three community colleges: Ivy Tech Community College-Bloomington; Madisonville Community College in Madisonville, Kentucky; Jackson State Community College in Jackson, Tennessee. WFHB News Director Alycin Bektesh spoke with Kirk Barnes, Dean of the School of Technology at Ivy Tech, about the new opportunities the grant brings to Bloomington, for this WFHB Feature Exclusive.