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Lake Washington Institute of Technology company history timeline

1949

Lake Washington Institute of Technology (LWTech) was founded in 1949, and is the only public institute of technology in the state of Washington.

1978

In 1978, local taxpayers passed a bond issue to construct a new facility for the school.

1983

A site then north of Kirkland near Totem Lake (since annexed) was chosen and the school opened by 1983.

1991

In 1991 LWTech became independent of the school district and on September 1, 1991 the institute became a degree-granting technical college with all the rights and responsibilities of a technical college as prescribed by state law.

1996

The school dental program was initiated in the fall of 1996, the state's first new program in 22 years.

2002

Ground was broken on August 12, 2002 for a new 60,000-square-foot (5,600 m) $17 million technology building adjoining the administration (or West Building) that was to add twenty classrooms and a new multi-level library facility to the school.

2004

The college expanded again in 2004 with a satellite campus on the edge of Marymoor Park in Redmond replacing a small training building owned by the school that was formerly a missile-repair shop built during the Cold War as part of the Nike Ajax missile-defense system.

2011

In 2011, LWTech opened its new 83,000-square-foot (7,700 m) Allied Health building, housing the college's ever expanding health services programs.

2017

The Redmond Campus was closed in spring of 2017.

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