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BUSINESS<br />
CONNECTIONS<br />
Manufacturing Day<br />
Statewide<br />
On October 6, Manufacturing Day, factories threw open their<br />
doors for thousands of middle and high school students across<br />
the state to demonstrate that modern manufacturing is anything<br />
but dark, dirty and dangerous.<br />
Businesses in plastics, metalwork, automotive parts and<br />
even fried chicken hosted events at their facilities to debunk<br />
old manufacturing stereotypes and showcase a variety of highskill,<br />
high-paying jobs as future career paths for youth. Students<br />
got up close and personal with cutting-edge technology and<br />
manufacturing operations, many of them for the first time.<br />
“Before, I thought of factories as being a place where<br />
it’s really smoky and people are really sad and it’s not like<br />
anything that you’d want to be in,” said David Pirozhnik, a<br />
student at Missouri Military Academy. “But now that I come<br />
here, everyone’s happy, they’re working together. It’s like a<br />
huge team and like a family.”<br />
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