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How to Get Your T2202 Tax Form from GBC

With tax season quickly approaching, it’s time to start preparing and gathering all relevant receipts and paperwork to file your taxes! GBC Technical Training students whose tuition fees have totalled at least $100 are eligible to receive a tax credit for tuition fees through the Tuition and Enrolment Certificate (T2202). Students can access and download their T2202 form from their online student account, which will account for all programs paid for during this calendar year.

How to Access your GBCTechTraining Official eTranscripts

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An official transcript is a record of the grades you’ve earned while attending college.

GBCTechTraining 2023 Winter Holiday Hours

2023 Holiday hours

With the holiday season quickly approaching, we wanted to update you on how the holiday break will impact our GBCTechTraining technical, tutorial, and administrative support. 

Office Hours 

The Student Support Center will be closed on Friday, December 22 at 5:00 p.m. and will re-open on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024. 

PLC's and Water Treatment Facilities

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It wasn’t that long ago that treating wastewater and delivering clean, safe drinking water to homes relied on manual processes. Today, water treatment is largely automated, thanks in no small part to the use of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and other electrical devices that can be programmed to complete many of the tasks required with little to no human oversight.

Watch Our PLC Webinar on How to Advance Your Career with PLC Technician Program

PLC Webinar on how to advance PLC career with PLC Technician Certificate Program

Our recent informative and interactive PLC Webinar introduced ways to build in-demand PLC skills and pave your way toward a rewarding career. It included essential information about our PLC programs, such as:

How Smart Factories Integrate PLCs, Automation and Robotics

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As we embark on the journey through the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the manufacturing sector continues to witness the seamless integration of PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers), automation, and robotics, giving rise to the era of smart factories. Despite PLCs being developed almost six decades ago, their adaptability and efficiency persist alongside cutting-edge technologies.

An Overview of the Allen-Bradley Family of PLCs

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After a general introduction to the Allen-Bradley brand name for those who are new to the field of industrial automation and control, we will take a brief look back at the founding of the Allen-Bradley company and how they have been a going concern since the early 1900s.  We will move on to examine some of the significant contributions the company has made in the development of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) dating as far back as the 1970s and how their subsequent contributions to PLC

Latest Advancement in PLC Technology

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PLCs, or Programmable Logic Controllers, have been in use in one form or another since the proliferation of modern manufacturing. In fact, PLCs have proven so vital that they have ostensibly helped to replace many of the strictly manually executed processes in thousands of plants across the globe.