{"id":420229,"date":"2026-10-06T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420229\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T13:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:56:12","slug":"spc-awarded-2-9-million-grant-to-advance-technology-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420229\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC awarded $2.9 million grant to advance technology education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 6, 2026 &#8211; St. Petersburg College has been awarded with a $2.9 million, five-year U.S. Department of Labor Title III Strengthening Institutions Program grant. It will support the educational institution&#8217;s Next-Generation Educational Infrastructure for Technology and Artificial Intelligence (NEXT-AI) initiative. According to a prepared statement, &#8220;the funding will support upgrades to the College\u2019s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and expand AI-powered tools for career exploration, academic advising and workforce connections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 6, 2026 &#8211; St. Petersburg College has been awarded with a $2.9 million, five-year U.S. Department of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-420229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}