Engineering Career Day
On March 4, Menomonee Valley Partners partnered with Bradley Tech to bring 20 high school students to tour manufacturing facilities at Charter Wire and Taylor Dynamometer. Students were impressed to see the modern manufacturing sites, learn from professionals in the field, and asked great questions about how people started working in that field. A few were especially excited to learn more about welding jobs!
Young Women in STEM
On March 11, young women from local high schools, Milwaukee Academy of Science and Cross Trainers Academy, not only had the opportunity to tour Rexnord Corporation, but spent their school day learning about a wide variety of STEM careers directly from women who are currently practicing in those fields. Students sat one-on-one with their women mentors to learn what a day on the job is like for a civil engineer, mechanical engineer, safety engineer, architectural engineer, and even a chemist and how these roles fit into the process of manufacturing and engineering. Thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers from Rexnord, Komatsu Mining Corp, Ingeteam, Materion, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, and Zimmerman Architects who spoke with our students!
A big thank you to the companies for hosting students as well as the funders of the Career Discovery Initiative, including Bader Philanthropies!
