LB Training – LB Electric Company

LB Training Center LLC

Giving back to disadvantaged communities.

We offer a renewable energy curriculum to small business, students, and veterans to facilitate entry into the renewable energy sector.

HISTORY

The LB Training Center was started in 2005 by Leon K. Baptiste, President and CEO of LB Electric Co., LLC. Leon used the relationships developed at NJIT as a student and as a start up on campus within their incubator program to create an inner city and reentry program for disadvantaged individuals. He was able to convince the city of Newark, under the Cory Booker administration, to allow him to employ 30 inner city kids with “on the job training”.

The LB Training Center helps provide education and training in solar technologies educating college students and teaching skills to disadvantaged individuals (inner city residents and reentries) enabling them to qualify for jobs in the solar industry. This program gives inner city kids the opportunity to learn in real time and helps provide LB Electric with a highly-skilled and loyal workforce.

One employee, a former gang member, said he was so proud to wear his work uniform, he would walk through his neighborhood during off hours in his gear and would actually sleep in his uniform because it made him feel good. It was the first time this individual felt productive outside of the streets.

Programs At LB Training Center

Onsite Training

Arrangements can be made to bring courses on-site to your company. LB Training Center can customize courses to meet the training, educational, and coaching needs for your institution and/or your company.

Current Job Training Programs

Solar Panel Installation

COURSE GOALS

No solar industry or electrical construction experience is assumed. Knowledge requirements include 9th grade reading level, basic math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, percentages, proportions, exponents, area calculations, use of formulas, basic algebra and word problems). In addition, students will be expected to use the Internet, a scientific calculator, voltmeter, hydrometer, multimeter, and a solar path finder as problem solving tools.

Course Learning Objectives

Describe markets and applications for photovoltaic systems
Identify safety hazards of photovoltaic systems; identify practices and protective equipment during photovoltaic system installation and maintenance
Define basic electrical terms and calculate simple circuit values
Define and demonstrate solar energy fundamentals
Explain and calculate photovoltaic module fundamentals

Describe purpose and operation of photovoltaic system components
Calculate photovoltaic system sizing
Understand photovoltaic system electrical design
Understand photovoltaic system mechanical design
Describe photovoltaic system performance analysis and troubleshooting

Student Knowledge & Experience Assumptions

Life Skills - Qualities of Successful People

The “Life Skills – Qualities of Successful People” Program contains a series of “Discrete Programs”, which can be packaged and presented in different combinations to meet the needs of the audience’s workshop timeframe and specific demographics and objectives.

The “Life Skills Program”:

Exposes the participants, via Program “Elements”, to:

Encourages the participants to discuss the meaning of the various Program “Elements”

Engages the participants to discuss the value to them, and application by them, of each Program “Element”

Complements the learning and training goals, objectives, and programs of the organizations and institutions that sponsor and/or host the “Life Skills Program”

Workshop Programs Directory

Professional esteemed educators, and/or successful business persons, are utilized to deliver the “Life Skills Programs”. They utilize topical perspectives, and situational discussions, supported by their personal experiences, to enhance and edify the “Life Skills Program” content.

Program Components

The students can complete each of the aforementioned Program “Worksheets” either in the workshop, and/or at home. The Program “Worksheets” are designed to be “living documents”, for which the students can continuously add to, and update, the information contained therein.

Future Job Training Programs

Audio Engineering Basics

Data Entry

Medical Billing

Carpentry

Basic Construction

Laborer

Plumbing

Mortgage Applications

The current and future LB job training programs are intended to be offered at the New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), NJ community colleges, and NJDOC facilities.

(other locations to be announced)

About LB Training Center

LB Training Center was birthed by Leon and Dena Baptiste February 2009 due to their passion to give back to disadvantaged communities by offering a renewable energy curriculum that would prepare students, re-entries, and veterans for entry level employment in the renewable energy sector.

In alliance with Newark, NJ’s One Stop platform, the youth program was extremely rewarding as they watched students with limited aspirations, part of gang societies, and/or uninformed, change their trajectory by renewing their minds with direction and hope to pursue a career with confidence. Unfortunately, the youth program discontinued due to the lack of participants from the One Stop program. Despite the circumstances, LB Training consorted with local colleges to instruct their renewable energy program to interested students. They had the opportunity to present their program at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Camden community College and Sussex County colleges located in New Jersey. Moreover, Leon’s engineering expertise and Dena’s passion for the industry, positioned LB Training to guide and encourage the expansion of smaller businesses by giving them more administrative, financial and compliance awareness required for growth.

LB Electric Co., LLC

RC Lic No: 0620 | NJ Lic No: 144668