OUR COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION  |  MIDWEST

Morris Group HFO’s support over 350 educational programs throughout our 14-state region.  These Haas Technical Education Centers (HTECs) are building the future workforce for our manufacturers, creating entrepreneurs and allowing students to learn lifelong skills in cutting edge facilities.  We support these programs through increasing awareness and excitement for careers in machining, assisting in strategies for recruiting, connecting manufacturers and educators to strengthen advisory committees, facilitating regional HTEC Educator Conferences and supporting Gene Haas Foundation initiatives for scholarships, grants and named projects.

Haas Automation established the Haas Technical Education Center (HTEC) Network more than 20 years ago, to support manufacturing education programs at high schools/technical centers, community & technical colleges and universities, and educate the next generation of CNC machinists. Today, there are more than 2400 HTEC schools throughout the USA.

The HTEC Network is an industry and education led initiative that enables manufacturing technology educators and their schools to acquire the latest CNC machine tools and related CNC ancillary equipment, software, and educational materials. The goals are to provide students with a relevant, high-tech, and hands-on educational experience, and graduate work-ready CNC machinists, programmers, and engineers who fulfill the needs of today’s industrial employers, and are ready to meet the manufacturing challenges of the future.

HTEC Training Centers are dedicated to providing the highest quality training available for Haas CNC Machines and related technologies.  The centers leverage the support of manufacturing partners to provide training on the latest technology available. For more information about the work we are doing and how you can get involved, please contact Toni Neary, Education Director.

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GENE HAAS FOUNDATION

In 1999, Haas Automation owner Gene Haas founded the Gene Haas Foundation. Growing up with a strong social conscience instilled by his family, Mr. Haas initially formed the foundation to fund the needs in the local community of Southern California, current home to Haas Automation’s 1.1-million-square-foot, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility.

Over time, the foundation expanded its mission by supporting educational institutions throughout the United States to help fill the skills gap for American manufacturing. A recent report titled “2018 skills gap and future of work-study” forecasts that 2.4 million manufacturing jobs will go unfilled between 2018 and 2028, with a total economic impact of $2.5 trillion to the U.S. economy. His commitment to strengthening U.S. manufacturing-led Mr. Haas to expand his Foundation and its focus on manufacturing education in the form of scholarships for CNC machinist training, and general support for programs nationwide.

The Gene Haas Foundation donates millions of dollars every year to education. In 2019 alone, the Foundation provided more than $10.9 million in grants to education, the majority in the form of scholarship funds.

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