Franklin Cummings Tech

Growing Massachusetts’s climate tech industry will create considerable economic opportunity for Massachusetts while helping reduce carbon emissions. It can also be a source of economic opportunity for people from underserved communities. As the business and industrial communities shift operations and practices to build our climate economy and a climate tech future, they must also participate in innovative approaches to building the skilled, diverse workforce that will drive this new economy.

The energy thrummed around the conference table at Cambridge College, as 13 high school students prepared for a quiz, part of a paid summer learning initiative focused on green energy jobs, run by the Boston professionals’ chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers.

$50 million in state funding for life sciences training in Nubian Square hangs in the balance of legislative negotiations on an economic development bill.

Stakeholders, supporters and neighbors gathered last Tuesday morning, enjoying refreshments and conversation on an empty lot of land that will soon be home to the new Franklin Cummings Tech campus.