Nearly 200 people came to Moraine Park Technical College on Friday, Dec. 9 to celebrate the accomplishments of 23 Fall 2016 Manufacturing Skills Academies completers. (To view more photos from the event, click here). Continue reading
Nearly 200 people came to Moraine Park Technical College on Friday, Dec. 9 to celebrate the accomplishments of 23 Fall 2016 Manufacturing Skills Academies completers. (To view more photos from the event, click here). Continue reading
From a young age, Sara Martens found joy working with machinery. After high school, she considered the CNC/Tool and Die Technologies program at Moraine Park in West Bend to make this passion a career.
Wonderful, right? A passion. A plan. Perfect.
Well, it wasn’t quite that easy. Continue reading
The next installment in our Boot Camps: The Student View series brings us to the welding boot camp. For the welding boot camp students, classes have been running for about a month, and their internship experiences are just beginning. Continue reading
Have you been to Moraine Park’s Jackson Regional Center? If you have, you will know that it’s the home of Moraine Park’s newest and largest welding lab and located in the Northwest Business Park about ½ mile from Hwy 60 and Hwy 45 interchange in Jackson, WI.
Did you also know that there is a high demand for welders in the manufacturing industry? This is due to the great importance of a welder in the manufacturing process and the number of baby boomers retiring. Continue reading
Manufacturing boot camps have become a staple at Moraine Park over the last four years and continue to keep going strong. Throughout those four years, we’ve promoted our Manufacturing Skills Academies for their job placement rates and life-changing stories – and we’ll continue to do so. But there’s more to it than that. Continue reading
Moraine Park manufacturing students attended the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago, IL on Sept. 12th. IMTS is America’s largest manufacturing show, featuring more than 2,000 exhibiting companies. Continue reading
Skills Gap in Manufacturing
Manufacturing companies have realized there is a significant gap between the talent they need to continue to grow their business, and the talent they can actually find. Here in Fond du Lac, Mercury Marine has run into this problem, and is working with Moraine Park Technical College to address these issues. The company has lost a lot of “tribal knowledge” due to retirements and they realized the need to improve the skills of their current employees. Continue reading
On Wednesday, May 11th, the Integrated Manufacturing Students at Moraine Park Technical College held the championship match of their Techbots Competition. In the championship match, Flippin Awesome proved to be nearly indestructible against the dangerous Chips Miller.
Manufacturing skills are in high demand and the manufacturing industry continues to expand, Moraine Park Technical College Economic and Workforce Development is giving students the opportunity to gain those skills by offering short-term training boot camps. We often boast about the success of students who leave this short-term training opportunity and go on to succeed, not just in steady jobs, but in careers. We want you to be successful long after you leave, and part of that success comes from finding the right fit in an internship.
What’s the value of an internship?
It’s a chance to show employers your skills, while making sure that they’re a fit for you too. It’s an extended job interview – a chance to shine off paper. It’s an opportunity that could lead to a new future.
But maybe it’s better if you heard it right from the source. Meet our spring 2016 boot campers: Continue reading
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