Training partners
SMaRTech is built to be hosted. Each partner college delivers the related supplemental instruction for a pathway, while employer partners provide the paid on-the-job training that turns coursework into a career.
Our partner network
SMaRTech is built with leading community colleges, adult schools, employers, workforce boards, apprenticeship intermediaries, and government partners — delivering an employer-driven curriculum and a recognized SMaRTech credential.
Community colleges deliver the Related Supplemental Instruction (RSI) — the classroom instruction, CTE pathways, and apprenticeship-related courses that anchor SMaRTech programs.
Lead Education Partner
Saddleback College is the lead community college partner for SMaRTech, delivering Related Supplemental Instruction (RSI) through clean-energy CTE pathways and apprenticeship-related coursework that anchors the program.
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Related Instruction — Automotive, Culinary, Hospitality
The Advanced Technology & Education Park (ATEP) campus in Tustin hosts purpose-built automotive and culinary facilities that deliver the related instruction for the Automotive Service Technician, EV-focused Automotive Service Technician, Cook, and Hospitality Management apprenticeships.
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Community College Partner
Santiago Canyon College delivers Related Supplemental Instruction (RSI) through clean-energy CTE pathways and apprenticeship-related coursework, helping train the next generation of renewable energy technicians in the SMaRTech program.
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Regional CTE Alignment
OCRC connects community colleges across Orange County with regional workforce priorities, ensuring SMaRTech pathways align to employer demand and labor market needs.
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Anaheim, CA · Related instruction — SMaRTech
Delivers the tuition-free, not-for-credit related instruction behind the SMaRTech solar maintenance pathway, with the EVSE pathway following the same structure.
Pathways
Tustin, CA · Related instruction — automotive, culinary, hospitality
The Advanced Technology & Education Park campus hosts purpose-built automotive and culinary facilities that anchor the ATEP apprenticeship pathways.
Pathways
Orange, CA · Related instruction — electrical
Scoping the Electrical Technician apprenticeship pathway covering installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting fundamentals.
Pathways
Partnership model
A portable model
Industry defines the competencies, a local college delivers the related instruction, and employers supply the paid hours. That separation is what lets SMaRTech extend across Orange County without rebuilding the program each time.
Colleges hosting or lined up to host related instruction:
Training partner campus
8045 E. Chapman Avenue, Orange, CA 92869
Santiago Canyon College is the training partner scoping the related instruction for the Electrical Technician (ET) apprenticeship pathway. A Rancho Santiago Community College District campus, SCC brings credit-bearing career education in electrical, construction, and advanced manufacturing trades to the ET pipeline in development.
Campus office: admissions@sccollege.edu · (714) 628-4900
Training partner campus
1830 W. Romneya Drive, 2nd Floor, Anaheim, CA 92801
NOCE is the training partner campus delivering the tuition-free, not-for-credit related instruction behind the SMaRTech solar and EVSE maintenance pathways. As one of California's largest noncredit institutions, it anchors the featured apprenticeship and the earn-while-you-learn model in Anaheim.
Campus office: starhelp@noce.edu · (714) 808-4679
Training partner campus
1634 Valencia Avenue, Tustin, CA 92782
Saddleback College's satellite campus at the Advanced Technology & Education Park delivers hands-on Automotive Technology and Culinary Arts training in purpose-built, sustainably designed facilities — the related-instruction home for the ATEP pathways now enrolling.
Campus office: scatep@saddleback.edu · (949) 348-6401
Become a training partner
If you represent an Orange County college, an employer, or a workforce agency, the program office will walk you through curriculum alignment, cohort planning, and apprentice recruitment.
