Three Students to receive financial assistance for data center operations program
RICHMOND, Va. — Power Distribution Inc. (PDI and the Potomac AFCOM Chapter announced that students from North Virginia Community College (NOVA) will be awarded a $6,000 scholarship. The scholarship award will be divided equally between three carefully selected students who are enrolled in the Spring 2020 semester of NOVA’s two-year Data Center Operations program.
The scholarship was created to ease the financial burden and help stimulate interest within data center management as the industry faces a skills gap. The severity of this gap is noted in a survey of AFCOM members who found that, across the industry, only 21% of workers are below age 45, while 73% are between the ages of 46 and 61.