PRIME Highlight
By providing an extensive package of manufacturing- and engineering-related educational resources, the SME PRIME (Partnership Response in Manufacturing Education) program has enabled Troy High School to bring a near-decade-long conversation about expanding the school’s career and technical education (CTE) offerings to fruition this year.
Scholarships
Caitlyn Ulinski, a cybersecurity engineer at General Motors’ Lansing Delta Township Assembly plant, says her SME Education Foundation scholarship was instrumental in helping her get through college and start her career.
Student Summits
Jacob Belser, a 17-year-old senior at Jacobs High School in Algonquin, Illinois, eagerly anticipated his involvement in the Bright Minds Student Summit that took place in early May at RAPID + TCT at Chicago’s McCormick Place.
Student Summits
Our Bright Minds Student Summit at EASTEC allowed high school students to get their first taste of manufacturing with keynote speakers and guided show-floor tours of exhibiting manufacturing companies.
PRIME Highlight
Filling manufacturing jobs is a growing challenge across the country. Nearly 2.5 million manufacturing jobs will go unfilled in the United States by 2030. Launched in May 2023, the Edwardsburg PRIME program is an important step to help strengthen the Southwest Michigan labor force and fill future manufacturing positions.
Education Foundation News
Author: SME Education Foundation
Stratasys is funding the Foundation’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) scholarship initiative, and will provide a $20,000 award — $5,000 per year for four years.
Scholarships
A 19-year-old environmental engineering student at Jackson State University
in Mississippi, has been able to attend school debt-free since receiving SME’s $10,000 IQAir
North America Scholarship in Fall 2022.
Student Summits
With the Bright Minds Program at HOUSTEX, high school students had a chance to explore the latest technologies and connect with industry professionals. At the convention center, students saw a virtual reality training program where machines are used to simulate the floor of a worksite. Learn more about how the SME Education Foundation is inspiring future workers.
PRIME Highlight
Students across the state have new opportunities to learn some very important, and applicable skills for careers, in science, technology, engineering and manufacturing.
PRIME Highlight
Unadilla Valley High School is making vast strides in implementing the SME PRIME (Partnership
Response in Manufacturing Education) program since being temporarily thrown off course by
the COVID-19 pandemic.