Southeastern Connecticut Private Industry Council, Inc. New London, CT

$749,400

In collaboration with the University of New Haven's Southeastern campus, Technology for Connecticut, Analysis & Technology, Computer Sciences Corporation and Sonalysts, Inc., this project will operate an innovative program to meet regional shortages of information technology workers.

Seattle-King County Private Industry Council Seattle, WA

$750,000

The project will work with Bellevue Community College to develop the Technology Innovations Program, a One-Stop/community college technology training program particularly for older women and people with disabilities.

Northern Virginia Community College System Herndon, VA

$735,383

The Northern Virginia Technology Workforce Initiative for Dislocated Workers, involving high-technology executives, local government officials, educators and civic leaders in a partnership to retrain workers in technology-oriented skills.

Economic Development and Industrial Corporation Boston, MA

$750,000

A program to retrain and re-employ dislocated workers seeking jobs in high-technology systems support work.

Bates Technical College Tacoma, WA

$680,718

Training 76 students in a five-county area in programming, PC maintenance and network support, and placing 52 students in careers requiring information-technology and other advanced technology skills.

Eastern New Mexico University Roswell, NM

$750,000

A project using new training technologies and distance learning to serve 350 unskilled dislocated workers in a large area of southeastern New Mexico and western Texas.

City of Phoenix, Human Services Department, Employment and Training Division Phoenix, AZ

$750,000

TECH-LINK project in the Phoenix One-Stop Career Center to bring together employers and training providers to train workers in a variety of computer-systems occupations.

Mitretek Systems McLean, VA

$724,478

TekAid project to help dislocated workers develop sufficient skills to transition into information-technology jobs initially focusing on Year 2000 and other legacy application problems.

City of Oklahoma City Oklahoma City, OK

$217,654

Training dislocated workers, particularly women, in software programs such as PowerBuilder and Java.

Southeast Minnesota Private Industry Council, Inc. Rochester, MN

$656,558

Training dislocated workers for jobs in high-technology fields with labor shortages, including computer scientists and engineers, information-technology technicians and computer assemblers.