Featured Image

Get Ready for #MFGDay17 - October 6

MFG Day is a great opportunity to showcase your modern manufacturing workplace and enhance the image of manufacturing to your community, customers and future workforce. Check out the graphic below, which highlights stats on how MFG Day has changed...
Oct 03, 2017

MFG Day is a great opportunity to showcase your modern manufacturing workplace and enhance the image of manufacturing to your community, customers and future workforce. Check out the graphic below, which highlights stats on how MFG Day has changed student perceptions of the industry and more.

Tell us how you are celebrating MFG Day. Post your photos and tag them with #MFGDay

PicturePicture
Author
Kathy Keyes Webster
Managing Editor – Content
Recent smartforce News
For a view of the STEM classroom of the future  and to learn about careers available today,  educators, school administrators, students, and parents can visit the Smartforce Student Summit at IMTS 2024, which runs Sept. 9-14 at Chicago’s McCormick Place.
As someone who has spent 47 years working in manufacturing technology, I experienced firsthand, as you likely have, our industry’s impact on the prosperity of individuals and our local communities. I’m grateful AMT and IMTS...
It’s play time! FIRST Robotics teams from Milwaukee-area high schools teamed up to adapt toys for kids with disabilities. Using the technical skills developed in FIRST Robotics, the teens are making play time accessible for all.
To help celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, AMT and IMTS are shining the spotlight on three equipment manufacturers training the workforce of the future through their apprenticeship programs: Okuma, Schunk, and United Grinding.
In addition to building competition robots, students on the FIRST Penn Robotics team are also dedicated to crafting adaptive technology to help children with disabilities like this Hulk costume for a boy with a wheelchair.
Similar News
undefined
Smartforce
By Greg Jones | Dec 15, 2020

We are more ready than ever to put 2020 behind us. Despite all the challenges that we all faced, this year was also a year for improving processes, workflows, and product developments that will enable us all to have a more prosperous new year in 2021...

3 min
undefined
Smartforce
By Greg Jones | Mar 04, 2020

Smartforce Development recently attended the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Workforce Development Institute (WDI) Annual Conference on Amelia Island, Fla. The most common thread running throughout the conference workshop sessions,...

2 min
undefined
Smartforce
By Greg Jones | Jan 10, 2020

You might remember a move toward open classrooms in the 1970s. That proved to be a failed experiment due to lacking adequate structure for students and teachers alike. Today, in a few states, we are seeing similar experiments happening again with...

3 min