The Class of 2023: Hinds Community College, Workforce Division

“Our vision was to develop a space that would bring awareness to the use of AR/VR for employee training and put it in the hands of local business and industry, as well as to offer classes in XR content development,” said Hinds Community College Workforce systems administrator Corey Durham (pictured on right).  (Image credit: ViewSonic)

AV/IT TEAM: Corey Durham, workforce systems administrator 

GOALS: The Workforce Division of Hinds Community College (HCC) aligns community members with local jobs and fulfills training needs for local industry and business partners. In 2020, HCC joined an expansive development project that would transform a historic building in Vicksburg, Mississippi into a state-of-the-art accelerated technology transfer center. The Senator Thad Cochran Mississippi Center for Innovation and Technology (MCITy) was scheduled to be fully operational in Spring 2023. The HCC Workforce Division agreed to use their space to showcase the rapidly evolving world of extended reality (XR) for education and training, with the goal of opening as soon as possible.