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Five-figure grant bringing new lab to Madisonville Community College

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The grant will also provide the college with new laptops and transportation to be able to offer this type of training. The grant will also provide the college with new laptops and transportation to be able to offer this type of training.

Some Madisonville Community College students will soon be able to get a more hands on learning experience.

It's all thanks to a Rural Development Grant worth nearly $50,000.

Officials say the money will go towards a mobile business synergy lab. This will allow students to have on-site training with local businesses in the community.

The grant will also provide the college with new laptops and transportation to be able to offer this type of training.

"It'll allow for a lot more interactive environment, a lot more hands on, a lot more problem based learning and not just sitting and reading from a textbook or lecturing from a textbook. So it'll be much more interactive," said MCC Social Sciences Chair Chet Cunningham.

MCC hopes to receive all the new equipment by the start of the next school year.

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