Gwinnett Tech, Mercedes-Benz join forces for training

Gwinnett Technical College and Mercedes-Benz USA have entered a partnership that they hope will better train students — and create a future workforce for the automaker.

Officials announced the new program Tuesday at the school's Lawrenceville campus. Mercedes will provide vehicles and other amenities for Gwinnett Tech, ensuring its students training to become auto mechanics will be up-to-date with the increasingly intricate technology in today's vehicles.

The long-term goal is for those students to be hireable by Mercedes-Benz itself, which plans to open its new Sandy Springs headquarters in 2018.

"They're not gonna stay here unless they have a sustainable, qualified workforce, and that's our job," Gwinnett Tech President Glen Cannon told Channel 2 Action News.

Officials hope instruction in the program will being in January, Channel 2 reported.

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