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The G-Town Manufacturers Alliance is a dedicated group of Germantown area business professionals whose goal is to increase & improve community awareness of manufacturing’s impact on local education, labor, & economics.

Family Tours
Germantown area manufacturing facilities will open their doors to provide tours to interested students and parents.  The tours will present information regarding the many career opportunities available in the local manufacturing community and provide a look at the technologies Germantown companies use to do business locally, regionally, nationally, and globally.

The next set of tours is scheduled for:   TBA

Coming Soon:  Information on careers in advanced manufacturing, Bots IQ, Job Shadowing, Internships, Co-Op

Manufacturing Focus Group
Mission Statement:

  1. To facilitate the communication of relevant issues between our manufacturing community and the public and private organizations which can and will provide support to provide healthy and sustainable business operations.
  2. To present programs and services available locally and in the greater Metropolitan area that enhance the efficiency of businesses operations and, which are not otherwise available. (and)
  3. To provide a forum where there is a free exchange of ideas between and amongst industrial representatives in the area.

Accomplishments of the group to date:

  • 3/22/06   Mfg. Focus committee toured GHS classrooms for firsthand look at facilities & equipment
  • 5/16/06   Mfg. Focus Group, school tech ed teachers (High school & middle school) & guidance counselors toured 6 manufacturers
  • 6/19/06   Letter to School Board informing them of Mfg. Focus Group and high school alliance and asking for their support
  • Fall 2006  Chamber newsletter introduces Manufacturers’ Page
  • 9/13/06 Parent Back to School Night  -  information and individuals available to talk to parents about careers in manufacturing; awareness building
  • 9/25/06   Mfg. Focus Group appears before Germantown School Board
  • 11/1 & 11/4   Tours  -  Eleven manufacturers gave tours
  • 12/5/06   Presentation by Pat Moerchen, MGS Mfg. Group on his experience working at MGS and being tech ed teacher at Kewaskum HS
  • 12/11/06  Start conversations about curriculum enhancements to technology areas
  • 1/27/07   Second set of tours at 7 area manufacturers
  • February 2007   Best Practices meetings begin
  • Spring 2007   Continue talks about how best to affect curriculum to serve what is needed by manufacturers.  Talked about placing manufacturers as mentors in classroom periodically to “hear & see” what is being taught.  Support teacher in life applications of what is being taught.  Offer by Len Riebau to mentor woodworking.
  • Fall 2007  Several manufacturers attend actual classes in woodworking,  to make observations and discuss current curriculum.  Other mentor relationships are being formed.
  • LiftCo of Germantown has become a strong partner in the automotive program at the high school.
  • MATC begins a Workplace Skills Center at the Germantown Community Library.  Course offerings aimed at incumbent workers.  First course:  Manufacturing Mathematics Computation.  Next courses working on for summer 2008:  computer applications and communicating in an industrial setting.
  • Family Tours offered by five Germantown manufacturers; attendance increasing.

 

Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce
PO Box 12 . Germantown, WI 53022
ph: 262-255-1812   fax: 262-255-9033

 
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