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THOUSANDS OF CONNECTICUT STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT MANUFACTURING CAREERS AT THREE-DAY EVENT IN HARTFORD
Manufacture Your Future: Careers Expo II
June 3 - 5, 2008
8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Connecticut Expo Center
265 Reverend Moody Overpass
Hartford
The Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA), the Connecticut Community College's College of Technology Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing and dozens of manufacturing companies from across the state are hosting “Manufacture Your Future: Careers Expo II,” a three-day event to increase student awareness of opportunities in manufacturing and help them consider rewarding, high-paying careers in the industry.
More than 3,300 middle and high school students from across the state will visit the Connecticut Expo Center, which will be transformed into a simulated manufacturing company. Actual manufacturing processes will be demonstrated to show how products are made, and there will be exhibits of a wide range of Connecticut-made products along with student demonstrations. The students will participate in a virtual manufacturing process to help them understand the connection between what they learn in school and the job skills they will need in the future.
The actual machinery used in design and production will be on display and running, helping students see how raw materials become finished products. They will see firsthand the machinery and processes used to produce a key chain, including:
- CNC machining
- CAD/CAM
- Eyelets and stamping
- Plating and coil slitting
- Laser technology
- Plastic injection molding
In addition, the expo will feature:
- Student displays and demonstrations
- Robots built by winners of the FIRST Robotics Competition
- Projects created by machining students
- Exhibits of Connecticut-made products, including a space suit, model submarines and rockets
- Virtual reality welding experience
- Environmental aerospace and medical products that preserve and enhance lives
- Educational institution representatives giving students information on how they can best prepare for a career in manufacturing
- A flight simulator
On Wednesday, June 4, science, math, engineering technology and manufacturing teachers can attend free faculty workshops to learn how innovative technology can transform classroom teaching and help students develop the skills needed to succeed in the workplace.
Workshops include:
- Employability Skills – 8:45 – 9:15 a.m.
- Rapid Prototyping - 9:20 – 11:20 a.m.
- Gender Equity in Engineering and Technology Education – 11:25 – 11:45 a.m.
On Thursday, June 5, the student finalists in the Connecticut Technical High School Yankee Ingenuity Challenge will have their exhibits judged and a winner will be announced.
Businesses participating in the three-day event include:
| Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford & Granby | Alcoa Howmet, Winsted |
| Capewell Components Co., South Windsor | CUNO/3M, Enfield |
| Electric Boat Corp., Groton | Electro Energy Inc., Danbury |
| Hotseat Chassis Inc., Danbury | IPCC, Bridgeport |
| Whelen Engineering Co., Chester | Kamatics Corp., Bloomfield |
Schools attending the Careers Expo II during the three-day period, include:
| Academy of Info Tech & Engineering, Stamford | Mark T. Sheehan High, Wallingford |
| A.I. Prince Tech, Hartford | Metropolitan Business Academy, New Haven |
| Bacon Academy, Colchester | Metropolitan Learning Center, Bloomfield |
| Berlin High School | Montville High School |
| Bethel Middle School | Nathan Hale School, New Haven |
| Branford High School | Naugatuck High School |
| Brien McMahon High School, Norwalk | New Britain High School |
| Bristol Central High School | New Fairfield High School |
| Bristol Eastern High School | New Haven Academy, Hamden |
| Bristol Technical Education Center | North Branford Intermediate School |
| Bulkeley High School, Hartford | North End Middle School, Waterbury |
| Bullard-Havens Technical High School, Bridgeport | Northwestern Regional High School, Winsted |
| Bunnell High School, Stratford | Norwalk High School |
| Canton High School | O.H. Platt High School, Meriden |
| Collaborative Alternative Magnet School, Northford | Old Saybrook High School |
| Cooperative Educational Services, Trumbull | Oliver Wolcott Technical High School, Torrington |
| CREC Soundbridge at Wethersfield High | Oxford High School |
| Crosby High School, Waterbury | Pathways to Technology, Windsor |
| Danbury High School | Plainfield Central Middle School |
| Derby High School | Plainville High School |
| East Hampton High School | Platt Technical High School, Milford |
| East Hartford High School | Read Middle School, Bridgeport |
| East Windsor High School | RHAM High School, Hebron |
| E.B. Kennelly Middle School, Hartford | Ridgefield High School |
| Eli Whitney Technical High School, Hamden | Robinson King School, New Haven |
| Emmett O'Brien Technical High School, Ansonia | Rocky Hill High School |
| Enfield Public Schools & Fermi High School | Scofield Magnet Middle School, Stamford |
| Enlightenment Alternative School, Waterbury | Simsbury High School |
| Farmington High School | Somers High School |
| E.C. Goodwin Technical High School, New Britain | Southington High School |
| Glastonbury High School | Sport & Medical Sciences Academy, Hartford |
| Grasso Technical High School, Groton | Staples High School, Westport |
| Haddam-Killingworth High School, Higganum | Stevens Alternative High School, East Hartford |
| Hartford Job Corps Academy | Terryville High School |
| Hartford Public High School - Academy of Engineering | Thomaston High School |
| Hartford Transitional Learning Academy | Torrington High School |
| H.C. Wilcox Technical High School, Meriden | Troup Magnet Academy of Sciences, Hamden |
| Henry Abbott Technical High School, Danbury | Weaver High School, Hartford |
| High Road Student Learning Center, Wallingford | West Haven High School |
| Hill Regional Career High School, New Haven | Weston High School |
| Howell Cheney Tech, Manchester | West Side Middle School, Waterbury |
| Housatonic Valley Regional High School, Falls Village | Westwoods Academy, Bristol |
| John S. Martinez School, New Haven | Wethersfield High School |
| Kennedy High School, Waterbury | Wilby High School, Waterbury |
| Ledyard High School | Windsor High School |
| Leonard J. Tyl Middle School, Oakdale | Windsor Locks High School |
| Lewis Fox Middle School, Hartford | Woodland Regional High School, Beacon Falls |
| Lewis S. Mills High School, Burlington | Woodstock Academy |
| Lyman Hall High School, Wallingford | |
| Manchester High School |
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Media wishing to attend the event should contact Nancy Andrews, CBIA media relations manager, at 860-244-1957 or andrewsn@cbia.com.
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