RRC Polytech receives $10M donation
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This article was published 28/06/2023 (1010 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Gerry Price and the Price Family Foundation has gifted $10 million to RRC Polytech — the largest donation in the college’s history — to establish the Price Institute of Advanced Manufacturing and Mechatronics.
The founder and CEO of Price Industries — the largest non-residential HVAC company in North America — also re-committed to a scholarship fund for students at RRC Polytech for another five years, a gift that will total more than $11 million.
The new institute will focus on training and research revolving around the integration of digital technologies with the mechanical side of manufacturing — sometimes referred to as mechatronics — which underpins advanced manufacturing.
The province contributed close to $5 million and the federal government, through PrairiesCan, contributed $3 million to bring the total to $17.8 million for the initiative that is expected to increase the number of engineering technology graduates at RRC by 150 per cent.