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Greg Troyer is part of an exciting new engineering program at Central Virginia Community College:

• He gets all of his college education paid for.
• He gets paid to work with some of the top engineers in the world at the same time he’s doing his studies.
• He gets an engineering degree from the University of Virginia (UVA), one of the most prestigious schools in the nation.
• He gets to stay home in Central Virginia the whole time.
• And he will likely have a full-time job waiting for him right here, when he finishes school.

Before college, Greg attended Bethel Mennonite School in Gladys – a small school in a small community with maybe 50 students total in grades one through 12. “It was a lot of self-study,” Greg says, which – he realizes now – prepared him well for college. “It forced me to work things out on my own.”

When it came time for college, Greg went online to the Central Virginia Community College (CVCC) Web site and found an application for the engineering program. Several local companies “sponsor” students in the program, and Greg applied for and was accepted for sponsorship by AREVA in Lynchburg, a company that designs ways to make and use nuclear energy all around the world.

AREVA is pretty much paying for everything Greg needs to become a licensed engineer: all of his schooling at CVCC and UVA, all of his books and fees, and a paid internship all through college. (It’s a four-year degree program that’s spread out over five years, so Greg has time to study at school and work at AREVA at the same time.)

“Working at AREVA is awesome,” he says. “I get to learn the engineering world and its language. I get to build relationships. And I get real-world exposure to the very things I’m learning in school.”