Battelle Energy Alliance donates $1 million to support CEI's Future Tech building

Officials from Battelle Energy Alliance, the company that manages Idaho National Laboratory, presented a $1 million check to the College of Eastern Idaho on Wednesday to support the college’s upcoming Future Tech building.

“It is my absolute pleasure to make a donation of $1 million over the next five years to support the Future Tech building at CEI,” INL director John Wagner said. “I’m very proud to be a part of an organization that is Battelle that their mission is science and technology and education that is able and willing to make a donation to something as worthy as this cause.”

The Future Tech building is a $43 million, 90,000-square-foot facility the college plans to build and open for students in 2024. The building will be a career and technical education center and house cybersecurity, nuclear technician, solar technology, engineering and advanced manufacturing programs among others.

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