Intentional Success

East Chicago - Ivy Tech Community College student John Kowalski looks into googles used with a virtual welding machine in class at their East Chicago campus, Thursday, November 1, 2012. The students are shown a virtual environment where they can weld and receive numerical feedback on the qua…

Intentional Success

East Chicago - Ivy Tech Community College student John Kowalski of Hammond uses a virtual welding machine to practice a standard weld on the East Chicago campus, Thursday, November 1, 2012. The machine provides tactile and numerical feedback to help the student understand their mistakes.

Intentional Success

East Chicago - Ivy Tech Community College Industrial Technology, Welding Program Chair Parnell Jordan shows a score received after a virtual weld on a newly aquired virtual welding machine at the East Chicago campus, Thursday, November 1, 2012. The machine can instantly provide numerical fee…

Virtual Welding Machine

Ivy Tech Community College student John Kowalski, of Hammond, uses a virtual welding machine to practice a standard weld on the East Chicago campus earlier this month. The machine provides tactile and numerical feedback to help the student understand their mistakes.

Virtual Welding Machine

Ivy Tech Community College Industrial Technology Welding Program Chairman Parnell Jordan shows a score received after a virtual weld on a newly acquired virtual welding machine at the East Chicago campus earlier this month. The machine can instantly provide numerical feedback on the quality …

Virtual Welding Machine

Ivy Tech Community College student David Smith uses a virtual welding machine to practice various welds earlier this month at the East Chicago campus

Electric Vehicle Training

Gary Garrisi, of the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium, looks for a key fob in a Toyota Prius to show local fire department representatives during a safety training program on hybrid and electric vehicles at Ivy Tech in Valparaiso on Thursday

Electric Vehicle Training

Gary Garrisi, of the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium, gives a presentation at Ivy Tech in Valparaiso on how to safely work with hybrid and electric vehicles in an emergency during a workshop for first responders Thursday.

EVTRAINING - Electric Vehicle Training

Gary Garrisi, of the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium, gives a presentation at Ivy Tech in Valparaiso on how to safely work with hybrid and electric vehicles in an emergency during a workshop for first responders Thursday.

Time, money needed to save Valpo Tech site

Three investors purchased the former Valparaiso Technical Institute building in 2010 intent on fixing it up and finding a new long-term use for the structure.

Time, money needed to save Valpo Tech site

Old electronic devices are found on display at the old Valparaiso Tech building in Valparaiso.

Time, money needed to save Valpo Tech site

This is the ballroom at the old Valparaiso Tech building in Valparaiso.

Time, money needed to save Valpo Tech site

Joe Elder and Brad Patrick install a new stairway at the old Valparaiso Tech building in Valparaiso.

Old Valparaiso Tech building looks for new life

VALPARAISO | One of the current tenants of the old Valparaiso Tech building in Valparaiso is Jeremy Bustos, owner of Studio This Is, a photography studio.