The Guthrie Chamber of Commerce, Meridian Technology Center, and the City of Guthrie have been awarded a collaborative grant of $100,000 from the Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development (OOWD). This funding will support the planning and launch of training programs to build the local film and television industry’s workforce through Meridian Technology Center’s new South […]

For Meridian’s newest instructor, Miranda Mitchell, the decision to leave the front lines of nursing during a pandemic was not an easy one. “I really had to stop and think,” Mitchell said. “I only have two hands. There are only so many patients that I can help myself.” Mitchell explained that the impact of the […]

Christopher Jones is the recipient of the 2021 Salute to the Skilled Workforce award from Kinnunen Sales and Rental. The award, created in 2018 by Greg Hughes, owner of Kinnunen Sales and Rental, recognizes an outstanding construction trades student at Meridian Technology Center. Stanley Black & Decker’s DeWALT tools is a contributing partner to this […]

High stakes conversations can be tricky, even in the best of settings. What about when we have those difficult conversations in a virtual world? In a virtual world, it seems these can go from being difficult conversations to impossible conversations, but when the stakes are high these important conversations need to take place regardless of […]