Overview

The Advanced Technology Center is the result of a partnership between Tidewater Community College, Virginia Beach City Public Schools and the City of Virginia Beach. This facility promises to be one of the most unique educational and training centers as it offers secondary and post-secondary students the highly technical training demanded of today's workforce.

Located on the Virginia Beach Campus of Tidewater Community College, adjacent to the new Virginia Beach Higher Education Center operated by Old Dominion University and Norfolk State University, and across the street from Virginia Beach's Landstown High School. The three adjoining facilities will create what city officials and the education community are calling an academic village for Virginia Beach.

The Advanced Technology Center will help the public schools and the community college meet projected enrollment figures for training in technology. It will also assist in addressing the demand among Hampton Roads' employers for a well-trained and educated workforce, especially in the area of advanced electronic technology. And, most importantly, it will ensure that local students and citizens have the best career opportunities in the new millennium.

The 137,000 square-foot, $22.5 million-dollar Advanced Technology Center has been developed by a special state/city partnership of the Commonwealth of Virginia through Tidewater Community College, the Virginia Beach City Public Schools, and the City of Virginia Beach. The City of Virginia Beach gave $12.5 million and the Commonwealth of Virginia contributed $10 million and also provided the land.