(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of the Community College of Beaver County)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Monaca, PA) According to a release from the Community College of Beaver County, CCBC in Monaca is one of fifteen nationwide recipients to recently join Year 7 of the prestigious Metallica Scholars Initiative. CCBC will use a supported grant of $75,000 because of this honor to give support to students for the 2025-2026 year that are in its Air Traffic Control (ATC) specialist program. CCBC will also use this grant to try to get new students to get education from their school and to make the ATC program grow, which will assist in addressing the shortage across the nation of air traffic controllers that are trained. Year 7 of The Metallica Scholars Initiative was announced by the All Within My Hands nonprofit from the rock band Metallica and their management, which goes through seventy-five colleges throughout the United States and Guam. The Metallica Scholars initiative will reach around 10,000 students with an approximate total of $3 million, which came in a recent announcement as their biggest grant to date.