Find out what the future holds for you in today's high-tech workplace!
The right skills and education lead to in-demand, high-paying jobs in advanced manufacturing. Get a head start on your career at the 2018 Youth Technology Career Academy. See how next generation manufacturing offers exciting career opportunities for young men and women entering the workforce. Learn about local businesses and see first-hand what today's manufacturing workplace is all about. Find out what skills you will need to prepare for a career in advanced manufacturing.
This FREE 4-day Youth Academy is open to all students entering grades 10-12 and will focus on the technologies in our local industries. The participants will be exposed to plant tours, hands-on workshops, and classroom activities all focusing on the specific industry and technology. Participants will explore how manufacturing has changed over the years to the lean, clean, high skill, high-tech industry it is today with hands-on activitites. Such activities could include:
These activities expose the students to leadership, problem-solving, critical thinking, efficiency, completion, collaboration, and other skills.
This academy, structured to present opportunities to participants to participate in hands-on experiences with industry related activities. The site tours will allow the students to speak with engineers, meet local manufacturers, and explore how manufacturing has evolved into the high-tech, high-skilled industries they are today.
The primary objective is to develop the manufacturing workforce in the high schools. To this end, the academy:
The Academy is a FREE Program
Open to all students who will be entering grades 10-12 in 2018
Daily lunch and snacks are included
Apply now! Space is limited to 20 students.
The Academy will run for 4-days
From July 30, 2018 to August 2, 2018
From 8:30 am to 3:30 pm