Multiple scholarships from the SME Education Foundation have been instrumental in the postsecondary education of Benjamin Martin Lipper, a manufacturing engineering student at California Polytechnic State University.

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.

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.

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.

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.