Helping build a highly skilled domestic workforce.
About the Battery Workforce Challenge Program
The Battery Workforce Challenge Program is the U.S. Department of Energy’s comprehensive electric vehicle and battery workforce development program that fosters a diverse talent pipeline by building an educational ecosystem that delivers training and education for high school and collegiate graduates, vocational and transitional workers, and technicians who will charge North America’s battery industry forward.
The Battery Workforce Challenge Collegiate Competition
The Battery Workforce Challenge collegiate competition is a three-year engineering competition that provides an immersive hands-on learning experience for university and vocational students to gain critical battery design, integration experience and to build engineering and technical skills well beyond traditional engineering curriculum.
Regional Workforce Development
Regional Workforce Training hubs will address critical skill gaps and reskill/upskill vocational and transitional workers for in-demand positions in battery manufacturing. The hubs include a collaboration among battery manufacturers, local departments of labor, training institutions, local high schools and vocational schools, and community leaders.
Career Connected Learning
The national Career-Connected Learning management system is a cloud-based application tool providing flexible, accessible and equitable training and job opportunities for learners across the education pipeline, including high school graduates, transitional workers and university students.
STEM Education
In this program, middle through high school students will be introduced to careers in EV and battery manufacturing. Here they will organize build challenges and other experiential learning activities and integrate EV and battery manufacturing into Career Technical Education courses. This will help recruit students into manufacturing careers.
About the Battery Workforce Challenge Program
The U.S. Department of Energy is the primary sponsor of the Battery Workforce Challenge Program and its four initiatives and has been developing partnerships with academia and industry for more than 35 years to drive workforce development in North America.
We are building a public-private partnership of government and industry sponsors from EV and battery manufacturing across North America to help enable the Program’s four key initiatives. Sponsors may opt to sponsor the BWCP as a whole or designate funding to one of more of the four initiatives. Learn how your organization could benefit from sponsorship.
