Welcome to the Blount Partnership Media Room. Below you will find resources from the Blount County area from our chamber and industry events and partners.
The Blount Partnership is hosted the Careers in Motion bus reveal and ribbon cutting on June 23, 2022. The Careers in Motion Bus features hands-on activities related to the Medical, IT, STEM, and Marketing fields to get K-12 students engaged and excited for high-wage, high-demand, high-skill careers, and technical education related programs. The three public schools…
The Blount Partnership celebrated high school students who have done one or a combination of the following to prepare for their jobs: took Career & Technical Education (CTE) courses on a career pathway, earned an industry certification in school, and/or participated in Work-Based Learning (WBL). The Blount Partnership hosted over 50 students who began training…
People who are 23 years old are now eligible for the Tennessee Reconnect scholarship if they have not previously earned a college degree. This is regardless of their dependency status on federal income tax forms. Similar to Tennessee Promise for college freshmen who are coming straight to higher education from high school, Tennessee Reconnect is…
People who are 23 years old are now eligible for the Tennessee Reconnect scholarship if they have not previously earned a college degree. This is regardless of their dependency status on federal income tax forms. Similar to Tennessee Promise for college freshmen who are coming straight to higher education from high school, Tennessee Reconnect is…
Click to view the online version of the Blount Partnership weekly newsletter for June 27, 2022.
This feature is a question-and-answer session with a new Blount County Chamber member. So, here we go with our 176th installment visiting with Andrew Vollman, Vice President / Relationship Manager of FirstBank which is a Tennessee-based, local, small community bank. We are very involved in giving back to our community thru volunteer work, donations, sponsorships…
A summer Nursing camp at Pellissippi State Community College left a lasting impression on Therese Lloyd when she was just 16 years old. Four summers later, Lloyd volunteered at that same camp as a Nursing student at Pellissippi State, helping 12 high school students from Knox and Blount counties with a simulated birth, newborn assessments,…
A summer Nursing camp at Pellissippi State Community College left a lasting impression on Therese Lloyd when she was just 16 years old. Four summers later, Lloyd volunteered at that same camp as a Nursing student at Pellissippi State, helping 12 high school students from Knox and Blount counties with a simulated birth, newborn assessments,…
They’re currently stored in the cool confines of Dr. Nathan Duncan’s basement, but on Saturday, June 25, eight brews created by Maryville College students will be available for sampling by roughly 1,000 attendees of a craft beer festival. The annual event, known as Hops in the Hills and held in downtown Maryville, is part of…
Cirrus Aircraft delivered the first of twenty-five SR Series TRAC20 aircraft to United Aviate Academy. The TRAC20 is an advanced, high-performance aircraft that will be used for initial pilot training at the only ab-initio flight academy operated by one of the largest U.S.-based airlines. In February, the company announced a purchase agreement with United Aviate…
