Three local universities receive portion of Duke Energy grant
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Duke enegry has gifted 380 thousand dollars statewide for educational programs. 3 universities in terre haute are receiving a portion of it.
Indiana state university...rose hulman institute of technology...and ivy tech community college were among the schools picked.
That's more than 62 thousand dollars coming to the wabash valley.
We spoke with rick burger of duke energy.
He says normally these programs would use the money for camps and events.
Now...the money gives the colleges the opportunity to change their programs making them more accessable.
"our work force is changing but theres so many opportunities out there for these young students to really gain knowledge of so many opportunities with duke there's so many opportunities with a lot of companies sitting here in the wabash valley" burger says overall duke gives more than 2-point-1 million dollars a year to educational