Featured photo: Mott’s Mobile Learning Lab.
Story and photos by L. M. Land
The Courier visited Mott Community College’s (MCC) amazing Mobile Learning Lab (MLL) on October 22, 2022. It was parked in Flint’s north end at the Peace Park on M. L. King Blvd.
The Mobile Learning Lab was specifically designed to offer classes in Flint’s neighborhoods and for training at facilities like Lear’s corporate training.
Lo White and Darryl Pettway gave tours of the mobile facility. Daryl Pettway explained that life happens to derail educational goals, and the Mobile Learning Lab offers options for all.
“You can have stackable credentials and not need a college degree to make a good living,” Pettway stated.
Because the Learning Lab can go to its students, it offers options for those for whom transportation is a problem.
The huge space inside was a surprise. The MLL is a modified 48-foot-long, expandable semi-trailer providing access to modular classrooms as an alternative to traditional on-site classrooms. One expandable (side) is a classroom with 12 screens and a capacity for 22 students (in pre-COVID measures). Each student on the classroom side will have access to a Chromebook. The middle section and other expandable portion is an advanced manufacturing lab that is adaptable for the class being taught.
Short-term and mid-term training is available for a variety of advanced manufacturing programs. The programs include, but are not limited to: welding, machining, robotics, mechatronics, HVAC, 3D printing, computer literacy and healthcare. Computer certification programs are available, such as computer repair, Google project management and more. The unit will also provide training in literacy, information technology and lifelong enrichment classes for all ages.
MCC unveiled its Mobile Learning Lab (MLL) on August 25, 2021. It is managed by MCC’s Workforce and Economic Development Division.
To learn more, please call 810-232-2555. An intake person will help you through the process of commissioning the Mobile Learning Lab or with information about classes.
About MCC: Mott Community College is committed to excellence in education and offering services that cultivate student success and improve the overall quality of life in a multicultural community. With almost 100 academic and occupational degree programs, Mott helps students prepare to achieve more in an ever-changing economy. Through university transfer agreements, high-demand associate degree programs and one-year certification programs, Mott helsp ensure that all itst students are ready to get more out of life.
“As an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution, the college encourages diversity and provides equal opportunity in education, employment, all of its programs and the use of its facilities. The college does not discriminate in educational or employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, gender, gender expression, gender identity, national origin, veteran’s status, age, disability unrelated to an individual’s ability to perform adequately, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law. Title IX Coordinator Contact Information: 1401 E. Court St., Prahl College Center – Student Success Services Center (PCC-2280E), Flint, MI 48503, (810) 762-0024. Title II, ADA, Coordinator Contact Information: 1401 E. Court St., Curtice-Mott Complex (CM-1117, Flint, MI 48503 (810) 762-0373. Section 504 Coordinator Contact Information: 1401 E. Court St., Prahl College Center (PCC-2280A), Flint, MI 48503 (810) 232-2557. For important information about the educational debt, earnings, and completion rates of students who attended these programs, please see the following link: http://www.mcc.edu/gainful_employ_disclosure/index.php.
Mott Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (hlcommission.org), a regional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
