About 500 Inland students caught a glimpse of life as a manufacturing professional Friday, Oct. 4, at a National Manufacturing Day summit at Chaffey College’s Industrial Technical Learning Center in Fontana.
Employers with California Steel Industries, Garner Holt, Crown Technical Systems, Dimic Steel Tech and other companies spoke to students from the Fontana, Ontario-Montclair, Jurupa and Pomona school districts about careers in the booming field.
Sandra Sisco, director of economic development and the InTech Center, said in a news release that between now and 2023, employers in the Inland Empire will need about 8,000 new workers in the manufacturing sector due to industry growth and retirements.
Craig Slape, operations leader for Sulzer Electro-Mechanical Services Inc., talks about one of the fuses as students learn about manufacturing jobs during a National Manufacturing Day summit at Chaffey College’s Industrial Technical Learning Center in Fontana on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Granite Hills High School junior Toby Brown, 16, listens during a tour of the pneumatics and hydraulics lab as students learn about manufacturing jobs during a National Manufacturing Day summit at Chaffey College’s Industrial Technical Learning Center in Fontana on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Fontana High School sophomores Destiny Castillo, 14, left, and Edith Garcia, 14, try to solve a 3D printed puzzle piece as students learn about manufacturing jobs during a National Manufacturing Day summit at Chaffey College’s Industrial Technical Learning Center in Fontana on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Pnuematics and Hydraulics instructor Mike Koehler works a hydraulics demonstration board during a tour as students learn about manufacturing jobs during a National Manufacturing Day summit at Chaffey College’s Industrial Technical Learning Center in Fontana on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Summit High School sophomore Elijah Walker, 15, operates a universal robot at the Advanced Technologies Consultants, Inc. booth as students learn about manufacturing jobs during a National Manufacturing Day summit at Chaffey College’s Industrial Technical Learning Center in Fontana on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Fontana High School junior, Antonio Galvez, 15, tries a virtual welding machine at California Steel Industries’ booth as students learn about manufacturing jobs during a National Manufacturing Day summit at Chaffey College’s Industrial Technical Learning Center in Fontana on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
“We hope to plant a seed with these students now,” she added, “so that they might take advantage of this opportunity in the future and help meet the region’s workforce needs,”
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, manufacturing involves the mechanical, physical or chemical transformation of materials, substances or components into new products.
Chaffey College Superintendent/President Henry Shannon said the college hopes some of the visiting teens return as InTech students “so that we can help transform their lives.”
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