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Center Pilots Transit Core Competencies Curriculum with Students from Denver’s Mile High Youth Corps

Posted May 2017

Dustin Hughes and Juston Hrubes deliver TC3 to Mile High Youth Corps students

Transportation Learning Center has completed its first full pilot of the six modules that have been developed for the Transit Core Competencies Curriculum (TC3) . The five-week Denver-based course featured a collaborative effort between Denver RTD, Mile High Youth Corps (MHYC), and the Transportation Learning Center, with assistance from the Community College of Denver (CCD). After an initial train-the-trainer course run by the Center and held at CCD, RTD trainers, led by RTD’s Maintenance Training Manager Matt Younce, taught the TC3 curriculum to a diverse cohort of MHYC students.

TLC Instructional Design Associate Contella Mills, who worked on TC3 development with ISD Program Manager Julie Deibel-Pundt, joined RTD instructors Dustin Hughes and Juston Hrubes in teaching the Mechanical Theory and Application module. Contella described her experience teaching TC3: “Exposing youth and young adults to careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) is exciting and a fulfilling opportunity to shine a light on the transit career area that is very rewarding and provides for future professional growth”.

TC3 is designed to introduce diverse groups of young people and adults in the communities public transportation serves to frontline career opportunities in the industry generally and to provide baseline knowledge and skills in electrical and mechanical theory and practice and vehicle and facilities maintenance. TC3’s goal is to provide participants nationally the opportunity to become strong and successful applicants, trainees and apprentices in the transportation field.

The Denver pilot concludes a year of delivering TC3 in various forms to range of groups in Cleveland and throughout Massachusetts, in addition to Denver. TLC staff will be using the feedback from the pilots to finalize the curriculum so it can be made broadly available in conjunction with training programs on how to use the curriculum in a variety of contexts. For more information about TC3, contact Sr. Program Director, Pat Greenfield .