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Offshore Wind Lunch and Learn Events
Discover renewable energy careers by attending our upcoming Lunch & Learns. Join industry leaders and training experts as they share valuable insights into the rapidly growing profession.
What You Can Expect
- Learn about high-demand and well-paying career opportunities
- Insights on education and skills necessary to enter the workforce
- Overview of self-paced renewable energy fundamentals online course
- Attendees will be offered free enrollment
- Enjoy a free lunch and be open to new professional development opportunities
Upcoming Lunch and Learn Events
- Event Name:
- Lunch & Learn with Goodwill’s Goodskills Program
- This event is open to all students enrolled in the Goodskills program
- Date & Time:
- April 14th, 2025
- 11:00am – 12:00pm
- Location:
- Goodwill of Western New York
- 1119 Williams Street, Buffalo, NY 14206
Holli Monroe is a Program Manager in Workforce Development & Training at NYSERDA. She leads a team of staff in defining, planning, and developing programmatic strategies and interventions that address skills gaps and grow the clean energy workforce in New York State through career and technical training. Her work helps drive job growth and investment, support diversity, equity, and inclusion, and prioritize service to disadvantaged and environmental justice communities.
Holli Monroe has over ten years of experience in clean energy. She graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology and holds several professional certifications.
Ben Ballard, Ph.D. is a Professor of Renewable Energy at SUNY Morrisville and has served as the Director of the Renewable Energy Training Center since 2008. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Forest Resources Management from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF), an M.S. in Statistics from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in Forest Ecosystem Science and Applications from SUNY ESF. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Ballard led the development of the Renewable Energy A.A.S. and B.Tech. degree programs at SUNY Morrisville and developed and taught over 17 college courses. Dr. Ballard is currently leading the SUNY Morrisville team’s Offshore Wind Technician Training as part of SUNY’s OWTI.
- Event Name:
- Lunch & Learn with Goodwill’s Goodskills Program
- This event is open to all students enrolled in the Goodskills program
- Date & Time:
- May 19th, 2025
- 10:45am – 12:00pm
- Location:
- Goodwill of Western New York
- 1119 Williams Street, Buffalo, NY 14206
Ben Ballard, Ph.D. is a Professor of Renewable Energy at SUNY Morrisville and has served as the Director of the Renewable Energy Training Center since 2008. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Forest Resources Management from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF), an M.S. in Statistics from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in Forest Ecosystem Science and Applications from SUNY ESF. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Ballard led the development of the Renewable Energy A.A.S. and B.Tech. degree programs at SUNY Morrisville and developed and taught over 17 college courses. Dr. Ballard is currently leading the SUNY Morrisville team’s Offshore Wind Technician Training as part of SUNY’s OWTI.
Registration
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