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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and we're here tonight to talk about an interesting thing and very exciting thing that's going on here in the talk in Clinton. And what we're going to be doing tonight, we're going to talk about coalition between the Morgan School, also manufacturers in town, also a good one college. We're really excited about this, and we hope that you enjoy it. We'll be talking to some of the manufacturers, we're talking to some of the people who have started the program. Most importantly, if you have any questions about this, we'll give us some information at the end of the show. If you have other shows you'd like us to cover, like this one, please contact us at iris.com at clintonpublic.net.

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So start off, we're going to be talking to some of the, again, some of the people started, but we're also going to be talking to some of the manufacturers.

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Okay, we say we'll be talking to some of the manufacturers, we have us tonight, your name.

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Terry Corson.

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I carry in your name?

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Aaron Corson.

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Hi, Aaron.

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Oh, mother and daughter?

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Yeah.

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Oh, and that's what a good team, right?

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I'm going to talk a little bit about Bosch.

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What you do and how you're involved in this program and what, you know, what the main theme is at Bosch and some of the things you do.

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Okay, so, as I said, I'm Terry Corson and I'm the purchasing manager.

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And I actually have been in September, I'll be about 25 years.

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Congratulations.

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Yeah, it's pretty exciting for me.

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And so, as I mentioned, I'm the purchasing manager,

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and I actually purchase a lot of the manufacturer.

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Manufacturer pharmaceutical machines.

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So we do the filling and the closing machines for the pharmaceutical industry.

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We are here because Mr. Bouch, the president of our company,

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is very involved with Morgan School and trying to get interns

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so that students can get

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that can get like a involved in their career.

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Oh, great.

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Now, what are some of the things that you actually

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manufacture?

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So we manufactured the machine that made

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like filling and closing machines for like syringes,

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files, powder filling machines.

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We do a little small bench top machines from anywhere

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from, you know, like I said, the curing and like different

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tools.

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Oh, nice.

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You actually have about 10 students, actually a few of them here that are graduating this year are interns for our engineering software program,

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chemical engineering, and actually students who have graduated and work and have stayed at interns and will work throughout their school year,

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and then come back and go into breaks.

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Now can they come directly from high school into a job?

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I mean, there are some where the degree is needed, but we also offer a number of different

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departments that don't require a college education.

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Okay.

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We do a lot of monitoring.

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Great.

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Because I imagine in today's environment, inflation, everything that's going on in college

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education becomes so expensive.

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I think this is a great transition from high school into some manufacturing job, and I think

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that's awesome.

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You guys are participating.

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Yes.

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Helping the kids.

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That's something a few parents understand.

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You know, it might not necessarily be that it has to go to college and there's good jobs up here

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And we've got manufacturers like Baush who are willing to participate it help your kids get a good job

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And then we come and fight a part of the community. Yes, absolutely and being that even when we talk about the manufacturing

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It's there like a full service

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You know between you know, you can do the sales to you know from designing it to assembly and then we have a

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manufacturing, you know, where we do manufacture, but there are other so many other

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departments, project management that you can learn from. Great. Now, some of the

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if some of the kids or the parents want to learn more about, why don't you

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want to do it? Who should they contact? What would be the best place to contact?

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They should contact Kathy Tanner, our human resource manager. And so you can just

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call about and ask for Kathy and or even ask for Aaron. I am the human resource

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assistant and we're more than happy to speak to anyone who's interested. Great. And also

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on our website, the www.bouge-group.com. You can go there, and we'll also talk about the jobs

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that we have open and available. Perfect. Well thank you very much for participating.

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Thank you so much. Great for your community. I'm Tom Foster. Scott, why are you representing

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Argo EMS? Explain what your business is and how you relate to the kids and how you're participating

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in this program. So Argo EMS is a contract manufacturer of printed circuit board assemblies.

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This is our 53rd year in business. We're located right here in Clinton.

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We like what you said. Look at right here in Clinton.

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Right here in Clinton. Okay, and what do you, so explain what you're doing,

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in terms of your manufacture. What do you do?

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So we manufacture printed circuit board assemblies.

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Yeah, we have things that are in satellites all the way up in the air,

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all the way down to military and aerospace, all the way down to commercial stuff like

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induction cooked out. Wow, so how would that be, so how would you use something like that?

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You said you'd use it in the military.

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They're all custom designed.

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They're all custom designed.

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They're proprietary to the customer.

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We do not do any of the design,

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but we manufacture to our customers' needs.

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That's great.

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Now how many employees you currently have?

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I have 36.

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Now, are the president of the company?

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I am the general manager.

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General manager of the company.

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Now, tell me about the programs with the kids.

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How are you relating with the Morgan students

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and some of the youngest students of town?

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So this is something that's new for me.

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There's a lot of families that were unaware that we're making this here right here in

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I wasn't aware before that.

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Part of the Clinton Business Coalition, and just being a good business leader, we have

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to get out to the students.

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Part of now that we're out of, I hope, over this COVID hurdle, is to start to look at, you

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know, the next year you're developing an internship program, or a work share, or a job

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share.

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Some type of job shadowing.

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We have to generate the next.

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next generation.

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And next generation.

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And today, kids, it's important to think, oh, or have a path.

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That's absolute.

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So now, do you currently have an internship?

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We do.

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That's something you're, that's the process in the office.

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And how long are the parts of the manufacturing quarters?

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Something's up here.

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I think it's been going over years now.

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So five runs pretty good.

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It's good that we're trying to get together.

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I think it's great sharing ideas and that helps you better your company.

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Scott, thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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Okay, next manufacturer is representing tonight is Kenyan electric wheels.

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Thank you.

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Is this Phil?

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And Phil, what's your position?

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Phil Williams.

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What's your position?

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You're the president.

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Well, thank you for participating in this.

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And tell me a little bit about what you do besides the grills.

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What kind of grills, how many you produce typically, different sizes, shapes, tell us a little

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bit about it.

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This is our entry level grill.

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They're all electric.

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We don't do any gas, no charcoal grills.

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So, we make this entry size, and then we go up to a grill that's got three of these on it.

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So, you've got three different cooking zones.

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They're all separately, temperature or regular.

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We do all of the sheet metal work.

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We punch it, we've got robotic bending machines, machines, and CNC turret punches.

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We also do ceramic cooktops with the largest manufacturer of two burner ceramic glass cooktops in North America.

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Wow, we supply all of the extended stay hotels with their two burner cooktops that they use for their

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Facilities such as Marriott residents in that's probably one of the best name sure extended stay hotels out there

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The employee just under 60 people were based here in Clinton great

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It was started by a man by name of Ted Ken and we started in the marine industry

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We're still very strong in the marine industry, but the hospitality business is where we really excel, right now

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Have you worked with kids in the program for Clinton? Do you have an interim program? They can participate in yes, and how did they get involved in it?

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The younger schools and teaching them about engineering and what manufacturing is about we've had

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job shadows where the kids will come in with a coach and they'll walk through the facility

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for a day or two and see if they want to get involved with the manufacturing.

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We've had interns from Morgan, work in our engineering department, we've actually got

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several graduates from Morgan that work for us, that we have brought in and we are paying

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their tuition to get their degrees and the fields that they really want to work in.

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We've also done a lot of training, internal training of the students so that they can come up and down the airs and the highest pay employees in the company.

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That's great. Now, can a kid who does say, you know, I don't want to go to college. First of all, you have a tuition program. What part of the tuition are you willing to pay? Or are you paying for the tuition?

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Well, it depends on the grades, take it.

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What should be?

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It's in the Senate.

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So we will pay up to, I think, it's 80% of the tuition.

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And how many kids have actually taken advantage of that field?

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We've had three.

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And could a Morgan student who didn't run necessarily get involved in college, could they transition

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directly into your placement employment directly in the kind of?

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All right, so they don't have to necessarily go to college?

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And but I imagine the the salary they receive will be will be predicated upon whether they have that degree or not or no

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Right, it depends on the position that they would be hired. Yeah, so you know, we have

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Just assembly people they'll start off actually the people that have come to us from Morgan

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Over the years have started off in the shipping and receiving department the very basic you know bringing boxes in putting them

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and they've gone up to become certified standards deal.

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Wow, that's great, yeah.

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Well, we appreciate the participation.

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I think this coalition of argument manufacturers

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coming together for the good of our town, the kids,

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and the parents, I think it's a great thing.

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And thank you very much for participating, Phil.

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Thank you.

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Others who came tonight to see what's going on here

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with the Clinton Coalition.

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And your name is?

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My name's Karissa McCombsky.

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Now, I think I've seen your husband somewhere before.

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I think we interviewed your husband for the marathon, Ronnie.

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And what did you take away from tonight's meeting?

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I'm really excited about the new program. Luke is a freshman here at Morgan and Tom is an engineer, so he has a background I actually wish you could have been here today.

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Sure.

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Was he out running?

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So actually, surprisingly. But I think it's really exciting.

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Good.

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I'm excited for Luke. I'm hoping he gets interested in some new offerings and classes.

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Great. And Luke, what did you take away from it?

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I'm looking forward for the next couple of years because I'm looking forward to be taking

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these classes and be using these machines.

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And you also want to follow in your father's footsteps, right, being an engineer?

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Maybe.

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Oh, that's good.

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Well, good luck and congratulations.

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How about yourself?

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What's your name?

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My name's Cole Donnelly.

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I'm a freshman here at Morion.

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And I was excited about just the opportunities to be presented at Morion and just helping

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getting out of college and I'm really looking forward to doing engineering like later

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in life.

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My father works in engineering chemical and kind of want to fall in and so it's great

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And what was that one of the things or it impressed you the most tonight?

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Definitely on the machine. I've never seen a machine that big before so yeah

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We just think both you and Luke can be working on this machine someday, right? Yeah, they make it happen

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Well, thank you very much. I hope you enjoyed it and we hope we'll see you guys in freshman right now

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Maybe as seniors will see you moving on to better bigger and better things

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And hopefully it's in manufacturing and engineering the following footsteps of your dad

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So thank you. We have another parent here. What is your name? Brian Donnelly.

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Hi, Brian. How are you? Good. How are you? Good. And what did you take away from the program tonight, Brian?

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It was really good to see all the local manufacturing as someone I'm a I run manufacturing sites around Connecticut also

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Yeah, and so it's good to see local

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Local manufacturers helping with the school really kind of really giving the opportunity to train the kids and things

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They'll actually be doing and kind of get some hands on experience. It was interesting as I said to several the parents

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Were you aware that we had that many manufacturers right here in Clinton a little bit?

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I used to run a manufacturer or site or a girlfriend, so a little bit, but not I didn't know

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Yeah, were you impressed by that machine?

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That was pretty incredible.

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Now was your son be pursuing engineering, you think?

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He seems to be interested in it, so good.

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And I think this coalition between the school and Goodwin College and of course the coalition

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with all the managers.

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I think it's a great thing for our town.

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I agree.

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I think it would be very good.

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Well, we hope that works out.

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We hope you enjoyed it tonight.

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And we hope your son falls in their footsteps and becomes just as successful as his dad.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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Thank you very much.

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It was one of the parents and what is your name?

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And what did you get out of the program tonight?

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Well, it was really from my son.

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He's interested in engineering.

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It was good to see all the different opportunities they have here.

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In the presentation, you found a good presentation.

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That machine was pretty incredible, wasn't it?

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I didn't know it was a first.

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No, it was really nice.

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As parents, did you realize we had so many manufacturers in the town

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and the various things that they do in the stop?

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It's really incredible to see what they're doing

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and the jobs that they have available for your kids.

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And is your child going to be interested in getting involved in engineering and maybe

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involved in the program?

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Yes.

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And he's already taken engineering one.

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And I hope you're not worried about what Morgan has offered.

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Great.

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And I think he's got lots offered.

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I think.

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Well, thank you so much.

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Your name?

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Susan Landino.

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Susan, and what is your name?

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Cool.

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Landino.

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And Susan, what made you come to this program?

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What was the interest that you had in coming and learning all about it?

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So my son, Colton, has one of his aspirations as to be an aeronautical engineer.

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Wow. Great. He's in seventh grade. So we're ahead of the times right now. I figure get him exposed to it before he comes here.

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Sure. And Mr. Chapman and Bob over there. Um, it's, it's a great opportunity. And I'd like to be involved as possible.

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Sure. And talk to him as many people as I can. Even though my kids get more to find about it. I think it's, I think it's wonderful.

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More parents we get involved in your kids and everything I volunteer for everything. Well, that's good for you because that's what all parents

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This is my this is my best job

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Right. Well, you've done a good job

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This is my most important job

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So this is what I do and and although he didn't want to be here. I think maybe he'll save later on

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Thanks for bringing me mom great. And what was it. What was the thing to impress you the most tonight?

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I'm really impressed with these seniors

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and their projects.

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Great.

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Did you look at that electric car?

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It's, I mean, it's really cool.

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And we're going to be doing a separate show,

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just let the electric car.

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Well, one of the things I said, I said, where did you race it?

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And they're like, right out here.

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I mean, like they've seen that.

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Come on.

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And how about that machine?

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That was pretty impressive, wasn't it?

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I think we came into the lake because we had another meeting.

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But even to see the studio projects over here,

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this is where I was at the beginning of this year.

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And then this is what I developed towards the end.

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That's great. And that, you know, it's pretty impressive. That's great. I'll call one about from your perspective, you know, did your mother drag you or did you?

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Yeah, I'm a little bit of interest. I had a little bit of interest, but I also got dragged here. You got dragged? So it was dragging with interest. Yeah. Yeah. And having come now, are you glad you came? Yes. Do you have some of the cookies? Not yet. Come on. You got to get some cookie. Now, but what was one of the things or some of the things that impressed you the most, Colton? As my mom said, seeing what they were doing in the beginning of the year, and then what they did at the end of the year, there was so much like, so I saw a calculator. It was big and bulky.

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and then I saw a touch screen that actually showed the answer and it was really

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impressive. That's great. What'd you think about that machine? It was pretty cool. Yeah.

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Well listen it's great that you know you're starting seventh grade that's awesome and

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hopefully next time you interview where you'll be a senior and you'll be ready to go off to be

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come back after a local, an astronautical engineer. I can imagine that you graduate you're

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gonna have to deal with it. Your mom's gonna be all over it. Yeah. Well listen it's great to see

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parents like yourself involved like that. And Colton I hope this is something you're gonna

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We are a path of allegiance and success, and I'm sure it will, you know, give your

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mom behind you back.

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We're going to be all set.

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Again, thank you so much for coming.

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It's a great pleasure.

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This is rewarding.

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The other person's favorite, very interesting and very integral in this whole process is the

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state.

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It's not going to involve.

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I don't have any Paul Boy Paul.

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Maybe you could explain what your role is and how you're interrelated with this whole program.

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Sure.

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Yes, very much so.

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So I am the Chief Manufacturing Officer for the State of Connecticut, appointed by

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the Governor.

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Connecticut's the only state with the Chief Manufacturing Officer, and my job is simply

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to help support and grow manufacturing in the state of Connecticut and our single biggest

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issue in the state of Connecticut relates to manufacturing these workforce is making

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sure that we have a well-trained workforce to be able to meet the needs of our manufacturers.

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Connecticut is a state that has work looking for workers and so we're in the prime, I'm

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thrilled to be out here at the Lorge School to be here in Clinton to talk a little bit

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to understand a little bit more about the coalition and to really get kids excited about life

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changing careers that are available in manufacturing.

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Absolutely.

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And you know, one of the things I think is important that today's environment, you know,

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inflation and everything else allows people, so I got to go to college and get a good

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job.

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But I think through the program and the internship, this is a pathway that perhaps they can do

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something besides having to go to college and get a good job.

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Would you agree?

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Oh, absolutely.

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I mean, there are many exits off of the manufacturing pathway, if you will, and this is a great

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way for the kid that loves to work with their hands, you know, and really wants to get

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started on a career.

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and their education doesn't stop when you go to work in manufacturing.

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There's training opportunities and there's new technology that's being introduced all the time

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and so, you know, people are continually training.

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They're continually sharpening their saw and growing and learning

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and they'll get a great education and have a great career and get paid for it.

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Hey, it's nothing better than getting paid to learn.

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That's rather than learning, you know, paying to learn, right?

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So, you know, when you came to Clinton, we now have this coalition.

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The manufacturers came together with Goodwin College and also the Morgan School.

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Well, is there any other talent that's doing this similar in the state?

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Oh sure, absolutely.

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There's about, I think at last count, about 120 towns that have advanced manufacturing

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centers in the towns, and then we have our technical high school system.

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And then we have our 13 community colleges and four-year universities under the Connecticut

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State College University system.

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Connecticut has one of the most robust manufacturing educational systems in the country.

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When we go outside to Connecticut and talk to people about what we offer and manufacturing

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states that are much, much larger than us are looking at us saying you've got to be kidding

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me that you have all that.

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So when it comes to manufacturing education and technical education, Connecticut punches

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above its weight class.

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And plus, you're one of a kind because you say you're the only state in the whole country.

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That's true.

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That's your team manufacturing officer, right?

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Yeah, that's true.

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And again, my job is to make sure that we're supporting and growing manufacturing.

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So I get to go out to events like this and visit manufacturers and make sure that we

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programs in place that make sure that we have a strong

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manufacturing ecosystem.

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Manufacturing jobs create other jobs.

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Every job you have in manufacturing, we create three

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to four of their jobs in the economy.

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Every dollar that's spent in manufacturing

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generates $2,779 cents in the economy.

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So how you grow economies through manufacturing jobs.

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That's right, now the other thing is you said

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there's work looking for workers.

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Yeah, and how's the employment right here in Connecticut

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right now, given the COVID end data with still in the

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inflation, but what's the job market look like to you?

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So there's probably there's I think got the last numbers or this one point eight jobs for every person looking for a job

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Wow, so if you're if you're seeking a job, there's plenty of work available

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The issue we have with Connecticut is there's a hundred ten thousand open positions

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Not just manufacturing throughout the whole state and there's 80,000 people on unemployment

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So we're 30,000 short if we took everybody off of unemployment

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So we really need to look at what we call the labor participation rate

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And that is people that can work that are not working and we have to look at the reason why they're not

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And we know that, for example, child care is an issue for people not working.

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We know that transportation is an issue.

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Especially the gas price.

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Yeah, exactly.

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And the governor in the last budget has a $100 million set of size for child care to be

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able to make more accessible child care.

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So we really have to look at creating the, growing the labor participation rates.

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It really isn't about unemployment rate or unemployment.

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We'll reskill people who are unemployed.

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But we also need to look at people who can work, but for some reason they're being preventive

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or eliminate those and get them back.

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So what the governor is really trying to do is he's trying to eliminate those obstacles so those people can go back to work and get those jobs that are out there.

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Right, we're trying to make the pie bigger, right? We're trying to make, you know, try to get more people engaged in working and then, you know, try to attract people to come into Connecticut to work in advance manufacturing because we make some pretty cool stuff there.

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Right. Well, Paul, thank you so much.

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My congratulations, the number one in the country. I know, right?

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Yeah, it's exciting. Thank you so much for your participation.

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Thank you.

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Okay, welcome back. As they said, you know, it takes a team to bring things like this together.

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And so, we're going to talk to some of the other participants, our principal here, our

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teacher, and a gentleman from Goodwin College, so if you like to introduce yourselves,

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first of all.

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Sure.

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Hi, everyone.

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Carrie Hague, principal of the Morgan School.

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And?

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And I'm Mathadona on the Assistant Superintendent of Pathways and Partnerships at Goodwin

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University.

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And Larry?

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I'm Larry Chowman.

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I'm Morgan School Agency for Engineering.

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Now, let's talk about, from the school's perspective, how did the school get involved and

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how did you get involved with Goodwin College?

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Sure, so I have to really defer to Marco Femaglady, our assistant superintendent, who

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really was eager to see the partnership between the high school and Goodwin College.

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And I think in looking at that partnership reached out to Math and reached out to the

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university to kind of see like, what are the capabilities of us partnering because we knew

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that we really wanted to blend some of the components of engineering as it

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currently existed but also see the growing need in our town of manufacturing

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and so really looking at what are the possibilities and is there potential for

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students to be able to earn college credit and really looking at getting more

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career ready and so Marco really reached out and I'll let you kind of talk about

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So from your perspective, how did you, how did this all come together?

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I know Marco was a big motivating fact.

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We talked about Warner.

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We talked about Ariana Con.

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But from your perspective, how did this all come about?

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And how did you get involved?

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Yeah, so I've been dealing with it with the school now for over a year.

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It started out kind of doing really an audit of the program.

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What's existing currently?

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What do we have?

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Where do we want to improve?

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What are the businesses looking for?

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What are the great things that Larry and Ted, the teachers here are doing?

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And then how do we take that up a level?

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Right, and so it started with that audit we were looking at the current current programming offerings

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What was here for equipment? I remember coming down to the shop very early on before the piece of equipment was in

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Talked to advise them about you know, what are the right pieces of equipment to buy what aligns with the needs of industry

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And then we talked about how can we take the existing high school courses and

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Articulate those with the university and so the students have that opportunity and not only earn their high school credits

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while they're here but then also earning three college credits and that

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levels up the experience for them and it opens up the doors to other

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opportunities for them post-secondary. So the credits they're earning here they're

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taking courses as Bob was explaining also Mary Ann that then can be applied at

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a good one and then is there any type of financial help that comes as a result of

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this in terms of the kids you know continuing with that education? Yeah so we offer

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the credits at significantly reduced price here the students are able to earn

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in those credits for, it's $150 for a three credit course.

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The book value of that course, if they were to come

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and take it on our campus at Goodwin, is $2,121.

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So it's an incredible value to be able to earn those courses.

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They have the opportunity to earn,

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to take two courses while they're here,

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and we're looking to expand those even further.

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And then from there, there's scholarships that are available.

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There's a grant scholarship through the Jean Haas Foundation,

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where students can earn scholarships for that.

472
00:23:45,110 --> 00:23:48,570
a lot of students will also go on into manufacturing,

473
00:23:48,730 --> 00:23:50,190
so they'll get sponsored by a company,

474
00:23:50,590 --> 00:23:52,650
and that manufacturing company or engineering company

475
00:23:52,650 --> 00:23:55,310
will pay for them to continue their education.

476
00:23:55,750 --> 00:23:57,530
So there's a tremendous amount of opportunities,

477
00:23:57,730 --> 00:23:59,470
and I think what we heard tonight too,

478
00:23:59,870 --> 00:24:02,230
was there's over 6,000 manufacturing jobs

479
00:24:02,230 --> 00:24:05,910
in Connecticut, and so companies need to,

480
00:24:06,490 --> 00:24:07,830
companies are getting creative,

481
00:24:08,070 --> 00:24:09,610
we're trying to recruit students to try

482
00:24:09,610 --> 00:24:11,110
and get people into these opportunities,

483
00:24:11,110 --> 00:24:15,050
and so they want to make it as enticing as possible.

484
00:24:15,050 --> 00:24:18,270
And offering college courses is one way to do that.

485
00:24:18,450 --> 00:24:19,930
Now are these credits that they take,

486
00:24:20,290 --> 00:24:21,690
are they just for good when college,

487
00:24:21,870 --> 00:24:22,610
are they transferable?

488
00:24:22,910 --> 00:24:25,650
No, so all the courses that they're taking are transferable.

489
00:24:25,850 --> 00:24:30,630
The good one is a part of the university consortium

490
00:24:30,630 --> 00:24:33,430
within the state, so the credits will transfer.

491
00:24:33,870 --> 00:24:37,450
And I've had students that take manufacturing courses,

492
00:24:37,910 --> 00:24:39,630
but then I've had students go to university

493
00:24:39,630 --> 00:24:44,330
They are for the UCOD and they're able to apply those credits in their engineering program

494
00:24:44,330 --> 00:24:44,710
as well.

495
00:24:44,990 --> 00:24:47,610
Now, being the principal of the school, how's the response been to the whole program?

496
00:24:48,150 --> 00:24:49,110
A lot of excitement.

497
00:24:49,330 --> 00:24:49,430
Yes.

498
00:24:49,530 --> 00:24:53,710
A lot of excitement on behalf of the staff, a lot of excitement on behalf of the community,

499
00:24:53,990 --> 00:24:58,510
a lot of excitement, I think, for parents who really are looking for their children to

500
00:24:58,510 --> 00:24:59,130
have opportunities.

501
00:24:59,510 --> 00:25:03,110
And I think this is a great opportunity with a partnership that we're forming.

502
00:25:03,110 --> 00:25:13,310
and I think for many it's looking at allowing us to change with the needs of where careers are going and that's exciting for me.

503
00:25:13,390 --> 00:25:14,050
Sure, frankly.

504
00:25:14,270 --> 00:25:16,910
And it's possible because you know college education becomes so expensive.

505
00:25:17,190 --> 00:25:18,550
So a nice thing here are our scholarship programs.

506
00:25:18,870 --> 00:25:26,170
But it's possible for my students capability to transition right into the manufacturing itself without having to take that next step.

507
00:25:26,530 --> 00:25:28,890
And I think we want to give kids options, right?

508
00:25:28,890 --> 00:25:30,670
And so students have choices to make.

509
00:25:30,790 --> 00:25:34,090
They have choices in terms of, do I want to maybe start

510
00:25:34,090 --> 00:25:36,910
in the world of work to see really, do I enjoy this?

511
00:25:37,130 --> 00:25:38,990
Is this something that I'm passionate about

512
00:25:38,990 --> 00:25:41,150
before I go into that next level?

513
00:25:41,490 --> 00:25:44,310
So we are very conscientious about what are the things

514
00:25:44,310 --> 00:25:46,750
that they're learning here, that give them decisions

515
00:25:46,750 --> 00:25:47,990
that they'll make later on in the life.

516
00:25:48,130 --> 00:25:49,870
Now Larry, being the future here

517
00:25:49,870 --> 00:25:53,630
in the engineering department, how does this program really

518
00:25:53,630 --> 00:25:55,530
change your life and the lives of your students?

519
00:25:56,190 --> 00:26:00,770
Well, I think because it gives a real world experience and it's kind of a different educational

520
00:26:00,770 --> 00:26:04,010
experience because there's no real right answer.

521
00:26:04,370 --> 00:26:07,430
They come in here and they have to kind of develop the answer.

522
00:26:07,770 --> 00:26:07,910
Right.

523
00:26:08,070 --> 00:26:08,690
The electric car.

524
00:26:08,830 --> 00:26:10,410
Yeah, and we're going to talk about that in upcoming show.

525
00:26:10,630 --> 00:26:14,790
So anything like that, they come in and it isn't like they can look up the answer.

526
00:26:14,950 --> 00:26:20,290
They have to kind of formulate it, be creative, innovate it and do all these things that they

527
00:26:20,290 --> 00:26:22,710
don't, they haven't done as much in their life.

528
00:26:22,710 --> 00:26:29,050
So it's kind of their some of their first experience for that and you know, it gets it can look kind of different sure

529
00:26:29,990 --> 00:26:31,850
But other times it can look amazing

530
00:26:32,790 --> 00:26:38,730
It's just the way this but I think it's changed the kids. I mean they come in here. We've had a lot of successful kids here

531
00:26:39,290 --> 00:26:46,090
Move on and I think the thing I enjoy being a teacher the most is is getting cards and letters back from them

532
00:26:46,090 --> 00:26:52,270
Sure how much it helped them their first year and later on and they're working or even a few years ago when I was a little sicker

533
00:26:52,270 --> 00:26:56,150
the kids wanted to talk to me like 10 years later.

534
00:26:56,410 --> 00:26:56,870
That's awesome.

535
00:26:57,110 --> 00:26:59,790
And it was, you know, my daughter met these kids

536
00:26:59,790 --> 00:27:01,410
and they called up and they couldn't come down.

537
00:27:01,950 --> 00:27:04,510
I didn't, and I wish I had, but you know,

538
00:27:04,570 --> 00:27:06,130
that's what I love to bump into on.

539
00:27:06,450 --> 00:27:07,790
Sure, it's a sense of gratification.

540
00:27:07,910 --> 00:27:10,010
And you're creating a legacy, both for yourself

541
00:27:10,010 --> 00:27:12,290
and for the school and they had those kids come back

542
00:27:12,290 --> 00:27:14,490
and you know, 10 years later, and still want

543
00:27:14,490 --> 00:27:15,870
to get your information from you.

544
00:27:16,210 --> 00:27:17,390
I think that's the real tribute to you,

545
00:27:17,510 --> 00:27:17,950
what you've done.

546
00:27:18,150 --> 00:27:19,810
And I think this program's going to even hand

547
00:27:19,810 --> 00:27:26,010
more when you say, I mean, this is, I mean, not an ass is just something that, it helps both,

548
00:27:26,250 --> 00:27:31,450
many fashion kids can get a job right out of school. That was our first member, we really wanted

549
00:27:31,450 --> 00:27:36,970
to have a career path for kids that wanted to just work after school. Right. And this can give them

550
00:27:36,970 --> 00:27:43,450
a great career path to start, get paid well and a good future. But lots of health friends, you're

551
00:27:43,450 --> 00:27:48,970
sure. Like the one I just didn't go to MIT, he would have loved just learned how to use this

552
00:27:49,710 --> 00:27:54,190
Because they do like F1 formula cars at any of the good engineering schools.

553
00:27:54,390 --> 00:27:58,650
And if to get on those teams, my son went to an engineering UConn.

554
00:27:58,750 --> 00:27:59,830
He didn't have that experience.

555
00:28:00,610 --> 00:28:03,990
And he went to his dad if you're a freshman and you get him at UConn.

556
00:28:04,030 --> 00:28:05,230
You're not getting on that F1 team.

557
00:28:05,630 --> 00:28:14,050
Unless you can weld, you can do as CNC machining or other or at the time program for an Arduino.

558
00:28:14,950 --> 00:28:17,250
So that's why I bring that stuff here.

559
00:28:17,250 --> 00:28:20,710
because that allows the kids to come in as a freshman

560
00:28:21,170 --> 00:28:23,750
and get on those exciting teams right at the beginning.

561
00:28:24,010 --> 00:28:25,210
Right, and I, as a matter of fact,

562
00:28:25,290 --> 00:28:27,310
as one child is out here right now, it's in seventh grade.

563
00:28:27,990 --> 00:28:30,450
And, you know, having that sort of that backfill,

564
00:28:30,550 --> 00:28:31,530
these kids just keep coming.

565
00:28:31,830 --> 00:28:33,050
And I think the other thing, too, is, you know,

566
00:28:33,170 --> 00:28:34,270
I'm talking about creating a legacy.

567
00:28:34,790 --> 00:28:38,010
Those kids who have graduated with this kid student from MIT,

568
00:28:38,530 --> 00:28:40,330
they'll come back and I'm sure they'll be, you know,

569
00:28:40,430 --> 00:28:42,270
influential of the kids in the program right away.

570
00:28:42,530 --> 00:28:43,730
Oh, yeah, I'm going up to visit him.

571
00:28:44,170 --> 00:28:44,250
I'm sorry.

572
00:28:44,650 --> 00:28:45,850
I'm so big meeting that.

573
00:28:45,850 --> 00:28:51,290
I mean, it's just interesting, MIT is an interesting school in a lot of different ways.

574
00:28:51,430 --> 00:28:51,510
Sure.

575
00:28:52,110 --> 00:28:56,230
They already had him in there, he met professors and other students.

576
00:28:56,350 --> 00:28:56,730
That's awesome.

577
00:28:56,930 --> 00:29:02,690
And they went out for dinner and he says the stuff that they work on and they do, he just,

578
00:29:03,570 --> 00:29:06,670
like he loves this lab, he spends a ton of his day down here.

579
00:29:07,030 --> 00:29:07,330
That's great.

580
00:29:07,670 --> 00:29:08,730
More than he probably should.

581
00:29:10,330 --> 00:29:11,930
We've got the principal's blessing.

582
00:29:12,490 --> 00:29:17,030
And even the teacher's blessing because he's actually far ahead in some of the classes

583
00:29:17,030 --> 00:29:20,670
to where, you know, whether he's missing math or whatever, but he's also working.

584
00:29:21,070 --> 00:29:21,270
Right.

585
00:29:21,390 --> 00:29:24,030
Because like you say, this trains your mind to think outside the box.

586
00:29:24,250 --> 00:29:27,030
And in today's environment, you've got to be able to think outside the box in order to

587
00:29:27,030 --> 00:29:27,430
be successful.

588
00:29:27,770 --> 00:29:29,410
So I think that's a great thing for the kids as well.

589
00:29:29,530 --> 00:29:32,090
They have that learning experience because you can read something in textbook.

590
00:29:32,090 --> 00:29:32,730
You take the test.

591
00:29:32,990 --> 00:29:35,850
But it doesn't give you that hands-on experience of working with the machines like you're going

592
00:29:35,850 --> 00:29:37,090
to explain to me those machines over there.

593
00:29:37,450 --> 00:29:38,090
That's really incredible.

594
00:29:38,190 --> 00:29:39,590
I think it's a great thing you've all come together.

595
00:29:40,170 --> 00:29:44,910
It's also nice to see a seed has been planted and now it's growing and it's due to credit

596
00:29:44,910 --> 00:29:48,990
of these three people and not everybody else we've talked to tonight, so thank you so much for

597
00:29:48,990 --> 00:29:54,090
presenting it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much to very individual people getting this whole

598
00:29:54,090 --> 00:29:58,630
program started. One of the persons we're missing tonight is Mark O'Fragment. Frank Milletti, he's

599
00:29:58,630 --> 00:29:59,190
for me to say.

600
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:29,940
But he's been very integral, but two of the most influential people in our town, Bob Warner, who actually set up this whole coalition. And, of course, Mary Ann O'Donnell, who's our superintendent of school. So, first of all, Bob, how did you go about getting this done? And, you know, you got this great coalition, all these great manufacturers coming together. How did you do it? How I did this started in 2018 when we first pulled together the coalition. That was the very first thing that happened when I came here, and that's the six manufacturers. And from the output of that very

601
00:30:29,940 --> 00:30:35,380
very first meeting that we had, I made them put an action plan together. I didn't, I don't

602
00:30:35,380 --> 00:30:40,260
believe in just sitting down and say, well, we're going to get together and sing Kumbaya.

603
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,220
And I said, let's, where do you want, what do you want to achieve? What are your problems

604
00:30:45,220 --> 00:30:49,960
and how can I help to do that? Well, we have a whole action list and not only one of those

605
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:56,220
came, and it actually came from Bosch back in 2018, is we have to have a much deeper presence

606
00:30:56,220 --> 00:30:57,400
in the school system.

607
00:30:58,400 --> 00:30:59,860
And that was an action item.

608
00:31:00,820 --> 00:31:07,180
Fast forward to 2019, we decided they wanted to move with that.

609
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,800
And I'm learning all this on the go.

610
00:31:10,540 --> 00:31:14,620
I had enough information to be dangerous at that time,

611
00:31:14,620 --> 00:31:15,960
but I spent some time in the walling

612
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,360
for it with a gentleman called Sal Menzo.

613
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,780
We did it, and then I basically went to him

614
00:31:20,780 --> 00:31:22,260
and said, what the heck do I do?

615
00:31:23,180 --> 00:31:24,800
And the first thing I did is set that

616
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:30,420
Marianne and Marco and I had heard some rumors that I was here to tell them what to do

617
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:37,960
and I in 3 years of my own self being self-employed never told anybody what to do on the process

618
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:43,660
got right and we sat down together and we had a very good meeting and the three of us were

619
00:31:43,660 --> 00:31:47,780
probably on the same page and said our biggest challenge is going to be awareness

620
00:31:47,780 --> 00:31:48,000
Yes.

621
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:54,960
Meaning, we have, and I know this long before, that parents are pushing kids to go to college,

622
00:31:55,100 --> 00:31:56,080
go to college, go to college.

623
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:01,360
And there's other avenues, and so we chose to sit down.

624
00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:08,740
We put a core team together, and Martin's, by the way, Markle's been become a great partner.

625
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:13,620
He and I are kind of joined it to hit with this process, but it's been a learning process

626
00:32:13,620 --> 00:32:20,280
for both P and I and we put an action plan together, put our team together and we started

627
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:26,560
to go forward and we stayed together and I said listen even if we do one little thing

628
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:33,240
I have a lot of free time I can do you just I can be a grunt let's just do whatever and we did

629
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:38,900
some small things and I said I'd like to come out when this we get the green light not come out

630
00:32:38,900 --> 00:32:44,340
having to start all over, yes. And we didn't. We came out ahead of the game. We

631
00:32:44,340 --> 00:32:50,260
would not be here tonight, if we had not, and none of us had told Mark, give credit,

632
00:32:50,380 --> 00:32:55,460
we're credit skill, Mark, if he wasn't as persistent as he was. And that's all you

633
00:32:55,460 --> 00:33:01,460
got to do with me is be persistent. So the long story short, that's what led us to

634
00:33:01,460 --> 00:33:06,900
actually restart the engine. And I think it was a good thing. Right. I think the

635
00:33:06,900 --> 00:33:11,620
break turned out to be an asset for us personally yeah because it gave you time to get your thoughts

636
00:33:11,620 --> 00:33:20,480
together and get the game plan I can't from a world if you live in a world where Darth Vader showed up

637
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:28,160
it causes you to be be more creative and more innovative not just cruise with what's going on and

638
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:34,020
that helped me through this process and I pursued other ways that I never dreamed of and heard of

639
00:33:34,020 --> 00:33:36,080
and Mark with it, so we pulled that together,

640
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,080
and that's what caused all of what we're seeing here

641
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:40,880
tonight to come to fruition.

642
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,720
That's really the, we have a commitment

643
00:33:44,180 --> 00:33:47,880
from not just from the school, the board of education,

644
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,720
the PTA, the manufacturers, the town council.

645
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:53,620
We pull them all together way back when,

646
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,220
and I'll be quite frank, I would not be standing here right now

647
00:33:57,220 --> 00:33:59,780
if any one of you said that this is not gonna happen

648
00:33:59,780 --> 00:34:02,160
because I'm not gonna go back fishing again or something.

649
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:07,380
No, Mary, I was very impressed by the fact when you were talking to the parents.

650
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,000
You really were giving them some background on the program and maybe you can give us a

651
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,740
little bit of background on the program and how it gets about how the good and college

652
00:34:13,740 --> 00:34:14,280
get involved.

653
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,940
And how the rest of us come together, you know, Bob put together this amazing coalition.

654
00:34:18,240 --> 00:34:20,800
He's worked together with Mark and a lot of the other people in town that he said about.

655
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:21,920
But what was the impetus?

656
00:34:22,140 --> 00:34:27,420
What really, if I was a parent right now and you wanted to sell me and doing this, give

657
00:34:27,420 --> 00:34:27,880
me that pitch.

658
00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:28,420
Absolutely.

659
00:34:28,420 --> 00:34:31,740
So we've had the bones of a lot of components.

660
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,440
In our middle school we have two STEM teachers

661
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,080
and so we start our students with exposure there.

662
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:38,540
We have some great things going on

663
00:34:38,540 --> 00:34:40,340
in individual classes with robotics,

664
00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:43,400
woodworking and some of the basics of engineering design.

665
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,080
Then we built this beautiful high school in this town

666
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,040
and we were able to kind of vision it

667
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,260
with this program and equipment

668
00:34:51,260 --> 00:34:53,540
and thinking about what we wanted its own problem.

669
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:55,540
And it's taken several years.

670
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:56,820
We've been here six years now.

671
00:34:56,820 --> 00:35:03,100
we built that and I will give credit because Bob came on board and Mark O'Famaglity, my

672
00:35:03,100 --> 00:35:08,260
assistant superintendent, he's my curriculum person. And we did a lot of talking about how

673
00:35:08,260 --> 00:35:12,820
we connect this together and we create opportunities for kids. And when you look around in the world,

674
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:18,560
what we want our students to do is to leave here with real experiences of applying problem-solving,

675
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:25,860
critical thinking, and manufacturing, engineering design, that's a whole area that has growth and

676
00:35:25,860 --> 00:35:30,000
opportunity for our students. What we didn't realize was the opportunity coming

677
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,660
right out of high school for our kids. And, you know, I will give credit to

678
00:35:34,660 --> 00:35:39,360
Marco as we started to dig in more work with Bob. Bob's a great listener and

679
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:43,580
he's a great systems guy and he told me that day one and I'm a systems person too

680
00:35:43,580 --> 00:35:49,280
and so we've built this to look at a pathway for kids and we have, you know, several

681
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,220
seniors that are making decisions to go into engineering who worked and had

682
00:35:53,220 --> 00:35:57,580
courses here, and they're all going into slightly different avenues, but they have real

683
00:35:57,580 --> 00:36:03,900
practical experience using higher tech equipment, real world application of software, and they

684
00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:08,520
also get a chance in our upper level courses to do some of their own designing and pursuing

685
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:13,000
their passions under our Mr. Chapman here.

686
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:19,380
And so, you know, we've been able to elevate our program, and the partnership with Goodwin

687
00:36:19,380 --> 00:36:20,540
was that final piece.

688
00:36:20,540 --> 00:36:22,260
No, it's playing their partnership with Goody and Holly.

689
00:36:22,900 --> 00:36:22,960
Sure.

690
00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:29,660
So, really, Marco Robob had a connection with former superintendent in Wallingford, Selmenzo,

691
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:35,100
who is now, I don't know, is exact title, he now is kind of a superintendent at Goody

692
00:36:35,100 --> 00:36:36,300
They're a mega school system.

693
00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:37,680
They're a mega school system.

694
00:36:38,140 --> 00:36:43,120
And so Matt, that connection up there, and Marco also had a connection with Matt prior.

695
00:36:43,540 --> 00:36:49,520
So as they started working, that idea of being able to offer our students, not just the experience

696
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,440
here but dual credit. So you can get credit here at Morgan for taking these

697
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:57,620
courses you get to explore, things that you might not have done before you get to

698
00:36:57,620 --> 00:37:03,480
develop skills. But now our students have an opportunity to follow a advanced

699
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,840
curriculum that gives them college credit for a good one. And so when that was on the

700
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:12,580
table it was a no-brainer for us to say this is the this is the future of high

701
00:37:12,580 --> 00:37:16,660
school. Everybody's heard of advanced placement classes, college board, but

702
00:37:16,660 --> 00:37:22,280
But these credits give kids that chance not only to elevate their transcript to continue

703
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:26,540
a good win, to get their associates degree almost completely before they leave here.

704
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,720
And now get into the workforce and continue their education with experience.

705
00:37:30,980 --> 00:37:34,560
So it gives a variety of pathways and opportunities to kids.

706
00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:39,880
And at 18, it's hard for the kids to know exactly what it's going to be.

707
00:37:40,020 --> 00:37:41,620
And I keep saying life is a journey.

708
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:45,120
I would never dreamed I'd be in this role when I was leaving high school.

709
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:50,480
but but that path along the way of taking steps having opportunities and that's

710
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:54,380
what we want to create here. So Goodwin has created that for us. Our students will

711
00:37:54,380 --> 00:37:58,420
have that opportunity to get credit and they're going to get a solid

712
00:37:58,420 --> 00:38:02,020
curriculum because that's the other piece that's really hard in a small school

713
00:38:02,020 --> 00:38:06,880
to be able to give industry standard curriculum. Goodwin helps to do that for us

714
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,880
and they're we're teaching Goodwin courses and then our partnerships with our

715
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,640
manufacturers do that as well. So our students here in Clinton are so

716
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:20,660
fortunate to have all of this and and passionate people both in you know our

717
00:38:20,660 --> 00:38:26,860
partners here Bob we now have a state who knows about the map and Matt

718
00:38:26,860 --> 00:38:31,760
Sedona at Goodwin has been amazing. So I'm just excited and if you talk tonight

719
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,660
to some of our I did and they were very excited the parents are very excited about

720
00:38:34,660 --> 00:38:38,520
they got a lot out of it and now the credits of the building up here those are

721
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:39,940
are applicable to when they go to a good one.

722
00:38:40,380 --> 00:38:41,940
But are they just applicable to good one?

723
00:38:42,460 --> 00:38:46,840
So I do believe there can be some recognition of credits.

724
00:38:47,060 --> 00:38:49,100
Just like we have a program with Yukon,

725
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,940
the early college experience, and you get Yukon credit.

726
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,860
If you don't go to Yukon, it can be transferable

727
00:38:54,860 --> 00:38:55,680
to other colleges.

728
00:38:55,980 --> 00:38:57,300
Each college is a little different.

729
00:38:57,500 --> 00:39:00,720
So in some cases, they might get a general elective credit.

730
00:39:01,060 --> 00:39:03,920
In other cases, the college might not afford credit there.

731
00:39:04,220 --> 00:39:06,340
Sometimes that's a business decision for the college.

732
00:39:06,340 --> 00:39:10,000
Yeah, but what it does is it helps build our students resumes and their

733
00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:17,100
Their applications are enhanced because they have these credits under their belt and they have experiences that are valid

734
00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:21,900
Are you sure and what what are the manufacturers just telling me that once the kids are involved in this program the internship

735
00:39:21,900 --> 00:39:28,540
They'll actually help subsidize their college education, which is fundamental and I think guys are so committed to this

736
00:39:28,540 --> 00:39:29,340
Yeah, and

737
00:39:30,140 --> 00:39:32,500
Something interesting is listen to Mary and talk

738
00:39:33,180 --> 00:39:39,840
When I first got these groups together, the manufacturing guys didn't know there was even

739
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,180
engineering courses here.

740
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:47,360
The school didn't know that these guys had these needs, and this is in a small town.

741
00:39:47,620 --> 00:39:48,720
And that doesn't surprise me.

742
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:49,560
That happens a lot more.

743
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:55,240
And for me, this helps bring the whole community together through that process.

744
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:02,060
And the other thing that excites me about this is not just the curriculum.

745
00:40:02,060 --> 00:40:07,020
You can be book smart, but not be able to apply that.

746
00:40:07,060 --> 00:40:07,480
Right, yeah.

747
00:40:07,620 --> 00:40:10,260
Here, it's like, well, I want to trade school.

748
00:40:10,340 --> 00:40:11,340
You got something you can physically do.

749
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:12,480
Yeah, I want to trade school.

750
00:40:13,020 --> 00:40:13,840
I need go to high school.

751
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:14,720
I want to trade school.

752
00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:18,520
Last back when they said you were too smart enough to go to high school.

753
00:40:18,540 --> 00:40:18,580
Yeah.

754
00:40:18,820 --> 00:40:20,520
I did pretty good in my life from that.

755
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:27,820
But it was, it go from classroom, then you'd go put that classroom and actually into use.

756
00:40:28,220 --> 00:40:28,360
Right.

757
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:36,560
this is it this is it I mean that's what I see down the road and really it

758
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:40,920
does provide an opportunity and Mark will road our problem state I haven't

759
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:45,500
put a charter together to stay focused and he wrote it and it basically was

760
00:40:45,500 --> 00:40:50,260
just to provide it's not the GMA manufacturing down kids or parents wrote it's

761
00:40:50,260 --> 00:40:54,600
just to provide them a view and an opportunity to see something they may never

762
00:40:54,600 --> 00:41:00,920
I thought I'd be for or unaware and for me that's this is it now you know we

763
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,300
talk about college is it possible I asked a couple of the manufacturers that

764
00:41:04,700 --> 00:41:07,240
just transition directly from high school with these things into a

765
00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:11,340
manufacturer without having to go to college yes oh yeah that's important I

766
00:41:11,340 --> 00:41:13,780
think if it was inflation being what it is and everything else in today's

767
00:41:13,780 --> 00:41:18,240
society if you can be paid go in this part of this program you go into a

768
00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:21,500
manufacturing company they take you under their wing you don't necessarily have

769
00:41:21,500 --> 00:41:23,700
to go to college you don't have that college debt and if you do want to

770
00:41:23,700 --> 00:41:30,300
of some of the money. That's one of the biggest, if not, you're making enough money to save for college and be able to pay for it without money.

771
00:41:31,940 --> 00:41:34,640
That's one of the, this is happening all over the country, right?

772
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:44,260
You need care, but it does provide the students a chance to come out of high school and go straight in, indignal to pass, but straight in the manufacturing.

773
00:41:45,020 --> 00:41:51,480
And the average, I know, I don't know what Paul said, but the average wage is like 84 grand a year for manufacturing.

774
00:41:58,120 --> 00:41:59,600
That's the key, no debt, right?

775
00:41:59,620 --> 00:42:04,340
I think the other thing for us is we were aware that the skill set, I mean, look at this

776
00:42:04,340 --> 00:42:05,520
house milling machine, right?

777
00:42:05,900 --> 00:42:09,980
The skill set that's needed, the math skills, the problem solving, the critical thinking,

778
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:11,940
the communication skills.

779
00:42:12,740 --> 00:42:17,860
It's not just, you know, sawing on something, it's not just cutting and tooling something.

780
00:42:17,860 --> 00:42:24,280
It is a complex machine that involves start to finish a variety of skillsets and that skill set

781
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:29,140
Whether you continue in manufacturing or you take it somewhere else is what we're trying to develop it

782
00:42:29,140 --> 00:42:36,660
It's definitely every brain that I'm planning to experience is that conduit to students finding out what you're doing is unbelievable

783
00:42:36,660 --> 00:42:41,280
Bob has started as you know it's at sea now it's going to be with trees and then it's going to go into something even much larger

784
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:46,820
And to have the cooperation these manufacturers the school and go ahead and I think it's a real testimony to all the hard work

785
00:42:46,820 --> 00:42:50,520
you guys have put in. I hope the kids appreciate it. I hope the parents appreciate it because

786
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,660
this is, you know, it's not unique to Clinton, but it's something that's helping these

787
00:42:53,660 --> 00:42:57,580
kids grow. I hope their parents as well, especially in this economic times that are in.

788
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:02,560
And if people want more information about this, where's the call which they do, Maryam?

789
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:07,560
So you can contact the high school. Our guidance office has information about courses.

790
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:12,560
You can contact our teachers directly. Mr. Larry Chapman runs most of these programs and we have

791
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:14,340
a couple other teachers who support it.

792
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,100
Marco Famigladi, my assistant superintendent,

793
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:18,480
can give that broad overview.

794
00:43:19,020 --> 00:43:21,000
We have information on our website.

795
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:22,360
There's a contact numbers.

796
00:43:22,580 --> 00:43:24,380
And there's a landing page with information.

797
00:43:24,620 --> 00:43:26,320
Hopefully, we'll have a little bit about tonight

798
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:26,980
and some pictures.

799
00:43:27,660 --> 00:43:30,040
But anybody in any of the schools, either the middle school

800
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:31,300
or here have some information

801
00:43:31,300 --> 00:43:32,580
and can get you to the right person.

802
00:43:32,660 --> 00:43:32,740
Great.

803
00:43:32,820 --> 00:43:33,580
Well, thank you so much, Bob.

804
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:34,540
You're a great job.

805
00:43:34,540 --> 00:43:34,820
Thanks.

806
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:35,960
Thank you for participating.

807
00:43:36,260 --> 00:43:36,480
My pleasure.

808
00:43:37,620 --> 00:43:38,060
All right, Matt.

809
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,420
It's interesting, as I was interviewing some of the parents

810
00:43:40,420 --> 00:43:41,980
and the kids, I said, what was the thing that

811
00:43:41,980 --> 00:43:43,640
and pressure the most is that machine,

812
00:43:43,980 --> 00:43:45,100
that machine was unbelievable.

813
00:43:45,700 --> 00:43:47,040
And I saw you're starting to give a little lecture

814
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:48,400
about just give us a quick rundown

815
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:49,560
about what this machine does.

816
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,440
Yeah, so this is a Haas TM1P.

817
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:54,440
I've been working with these machines

818
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,160
for over 10 years now.

819
00:43:56,700 --> 00:43:58,760
I had the pleasure of bringing them

820
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,540
in at a previous school that I was out

821
00:44:00,540 --> 00:44:02,920
and was just impressed with the quality of it,

822
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:04,380
the tolerances that they can hold

823
00:44:04,900 --> 00:44:08,500
and that this machine is really an industry quality machine

824
00:44:08,500 --> 00:44:10,580
that you would see in a manufacturing facility.

825
00:44:10,580 --> 00:44:17,340
And one of the great pieces of outlet is that this control panel is on their least expensive

826
00:44:17,340 --> 00:44:19,240
machine and their most expensive machine.

827
00:44:19,260 --> 00:44:26,000
So everything from $40,000 up to $500,000, and it's on their CNC mills like this machine,

828
00:44:26,420 --> 00:44:32,780
the lathe, they have router tables, and so it really gives the students the skill, once

829
00:44:32,780 --> 00:44:37,420
they learn how to operate this control pendant, they can then tape that and apply that to all

830
00:44:37,420 --> 00:44:38,400
the machines across the wall.

831
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:38,560
Wow.

832
00:44:39,180 --> 00:44:41,820
And it really carries through a lot of different

833
00:44:41,820 --> 00:44:43,040
manufacturing processes.

834
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,480
So this is a CNC three-axis mill.

835
00:44:47,260 --> 00:44:49,840
Students learn really four different things.

836
00:44:50,020 --> 00:44:53,120
It's not just about doing an automated process

837
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:54,960
or doing the same thing over and over again.

838
00:44:55,260 --> 00:44:58,100
It's about how do you solve the problem, right?

839
00:44:58,300 --> 00:44:59,900
Every part that you need to make is like,

840
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:29,980
And so we solved that problem really in four different avenues through tool holding, which is our, these are our tool holders here. We would take different sizes and sheeding bits that fit into here, mills, and then these are what's used to cut away at our material. It's through a process that we call subtractive manufacturing. So tool holdings really that first step in the solution. The second thing that our students need to figure out is the work holding. This is a vice that's in here. There's a lot of different ways.

841
00:45:29,980 --> 00:45:33,160
ways that you can hold on to a part to get it ready to be machined.

842
00:45:33,780 --> 00:45:38,580
So students learn what is the proper technique to use, right, and then how do you use that

843
00:45:38,580 --> 00:45:42,980
piece of technology in order to hold the part properly so they can be machined.

844
00:45:43,720 --> 00:45:47,100
The third part is really comes in the program, right?

845
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:51,600
That's the set of directions that our students are creating for the machine to understand.

846
00:45:51,860 --> 00:45:56,820
And basically it's using the Cartesian coordinate system, you're moving from point A to point

847
00:45:56,820 --> 00:46:01,840
be to point C, you just keep going around until you machine your finished part and how fast

848
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:05,960
you want to move there, how deep do you want to cut it, and so it's that process, it's

849
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:10,280
learning that language programming. I mean going like this seems pretty easy but there's a lot

850
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:13,960
to go. There's a lot of points that, right, right, right, if you remember your high school geometry,

851
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:20,120
there's a lot of, there's a lot of points that go on your ground, right, and each, each point in space

852
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:25,240
has a point that needs to be programmed. And so it's that set of directions of how we want the machine

853
00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:30,600
to operate. And then the fourth thing that our students learn is is machine set up, right?

854
00:46:30,740 --> 00:46:35,840
So it's taking all those things, the tooling, the work holding and the programming and pulling

855
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:40,640
those together in order to make a finished part. And then once you've done it, made that part

856
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:44,320
once, it's trying to figure out, okay, how do I improve that? How do I make that better? How

857
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:49,380
can I cut down my runtime, right? How can I produce it more accurately? And then it's measuring it

858
00:46:49,380 --> 00:46:54,020
and comparing it against your original blueprint or your CAD drawing to make sure that it meets

859
00:46:54,020 --> 00:46:56,740
to design intent and then it's within all the tolerances.

860
00:46:56,900 --> 00:46:57,260
That's great.

861
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:58,960
Just as an idea for the people watching,

862
00:46:59,300 --> 00:47:00,520
what does a machine like this cost?

863
00:47:00,900 --> 00:47:01,060
Yeah.

864
00:47:01,540 --> 00:47:03,100
So it costs is very gracious.

865
00:47:03,300 --> 00:47:05,820
They have educational discounts that they offer.

866
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:07,540
They offer training to teachers.

867
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:12,060
So a machine like this, as it sits, is about $43,000.

868
00:47:13,060 --> 00:47:16,420
With that, that includes a lot of the tooling.

869
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:18,480
How started coming out with their own tooling.

870
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,920
So they've been able to use that and include that

871
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:21,520
in the packages.

872
00:47:22,700 --> 00:47:28,000
And then really from there it's just your material costs that you need and then the replacement

873
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,340
bits that you use, you know, because they're consumables, right?

874
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:32,280
It's like a drill bit, right?

875
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:36,940
So it gets used up over time or gets broken and so you need to be able to replace that repair.

876
00:47:37,060 --> 00:47:37,160
Great.

877
00:47:37,460 --> 00:47:41,200
Well I think this is the greatest you're doing and you've been in, how long you've been

878
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:42,100
involved in the program now?

879
00:47:42,820 --> 00:47:43,460
With Morgan?

880
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:43,680
Yeah.

881
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:47,240
It's been about a year and a half now and you know this is just a sort of our journey.

882
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:47,520
Great.

883
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:51,080
Well we hope the journey is very long and fruitful and again, thank you so much for

884
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:53,140
from our community to Goodwin College.

885
00:47:53,240 --> 00:47:54,780
I think what you're doing for our community or kids

886
00:47:54,780 --> 00:47:56,960
is really something we all appreciate very much.

887
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:58,020
Thank you very much, Matt.

888
00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:58,640
We appreciate it.

889
00:47:58,860 --> 00:47:59,760
And our best is Goodwin College.

890
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:00,560
Good luck in the future.

891
00:48:00,740 --> 00:48:01,080
Thank you, sir.

892
00:48:01,300 --> 00:48:02,160
Well, that wraps up for tonight.

893
00:48:02,300 --> 00:48:04,340
I hope you enjoyed tonight's show talking about

894
00:48:04,340 --> 00:48:07,220
this wonderful coalition between Morgan High School,

895
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:09,500
Goodwin College, and of course,

896
00:48:09,500 --> 00:48:11,660
all these great manufacturers are represented here tonight.

897
00:48:12,100 --> 00:48:13,840
And if you have any questions, make sure you contact.

898
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:17,080
If you want to see other shows, you can contact iris.dom.

899
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:18,740
at clintonpublic.net.

900
00:48:18,740 --> 00:48:20,460
We'd be happy to come out and film events like this.

901
00:48:20,460 --> 00:48:25,600
But we can't do it without your support and letting us know that you want things that are going to be that you want us to cover

902
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:29,580
And we'll make sure we do it and do the best way we can. So I want to thank Iris Dunham. She's had a long day

903
00:48:29,580 --> 00:48:33,040
She's been in the studio editing some of our shows. She's been a lot of time here tonight

904
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:38,000
But I want to thank Iris so much. She's our producer director editor. She's our do-it-all person

905
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:42,320
So thank you very much Iris and thank you all for watching tonight's show and we'll see you again another upcoming show

906
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,260
My name is Tom Foster. This was Talk of the Town