Manufacturing Day is the nation’s largest one-day celebration of manufacturing. The Western Indiana Workforce Development Board and the Vigo County School Corporation are partnering to provide approximately forty middle and high school counselors with a view of today’s advanced manufacturing environment and an opportunity to learn more about the numerous related career pathways available to students. Counselors come from schools in Clay, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion, and Vigo counties were invited to attend the day’s events. Terre Haute Mayor Duke Bennett has signed a proclamation declaring Friday, October 5, 2018 “Manufacturing Day” in the city.
Did you know:
- Advanced Manufacturing plays a critical part in the economic prosperity and a quality standard of living in Western Indiana and Eastern Illinois.
- Advanced Manufacturing employs 17% of all workers in the Indiana/Illinois Bi-state Workforce Region, which includes Clay, Parke, Putnam, Sullivan, Vermillion, and Vigo counties in Indiana and, Clark and Edgar counties in Illinois.
- Advanced Manufacturing has a multiplier effect on the U.S. economy in which every dollar in final sales of manufacturing goods adds $1.48 in economic output from other sectors of the economy.
- Advanced Manufacturing drives innovation, giving American workers the tools and processes to remain the most productive in the world.
- Advanced Manufacturing continued prosperity depends on the promotion of educational and vocational opportunities that align workforce and economic development resources with employment opportunities.
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