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12 | /INSIGHT ON MANUFACTURING • July 2015 w w w.in s i g h t o n m f g . c o m Whether you need custom tags or labels in low minimums or millions, your order is important. Need help figuring out how to create a tag or label that meets your challenges, then get started with a FREE sample packet. Ta g s a n d L a b e l s, J u s t a P h o n e C a l l Aw a y Random Lake, WI 800-331-4863 sales @ badger tag.com w w w. b a d g e r t a g . c o m Contact us via your smart phone, tablet, or any technology you choose and you'll be treated to personal customer attention. who are working in the community. "We really want them to meet women who are working a s engineers and talk to them about their experiences," Douglas says. She and Tirel are also working with local employers to set up tours and to create partnerships for internships. The program also will help get students out into the field early in their academic careers. "Often times students don't get the opportunity to do internships or research projects until the junior or senior level," Douglas says. "So one of the things our grant does is provide some opportunities for those women students to actually get in the lab or work on a project at a local company on a professional level." Also new this year, Fox Valley Technical College launched its Girls in the Shop weeklong day camp. Fifteen high school-age girls spent a week in June designing a patio table. They used computer-aided design, cut out parts and welded them together under the leadership of FVTC welding instructor Jessie Lloyd. "We wanted to give them a taste of every part of the manufacturing process," Lloyd says. "Everything from how we process raw materials to putting the final pieces together and doing some of the finishing on them." Lloyd, currently the only female welding instructor at FVTC, says the camp was started to help increase the number of young women who enter the school's welding program — and therefore the number of women in manufacturing fields. Girls in the camp had a chance to talk to female graduates of the welding program and tour a manufacturing company where they work. Lloyd says more girls might take STEM classes if they had a different perception about them or understood what they might be able to do with the experience. There's also an intimidation factor. "A lot of girls don't necessarily feel the confidence to take a class where they might be the only girl," Lloyd says. "One of the things I talked to my girls about this week was to buddy up with a friend if you want to take a class that you're not sure you'd like." Students often aren't aware that starting in the welding program can lead to robotics programming, or they can continue on to become engineers, Lloyd says. "It's kind of amazing to watch these girls when the light comes on and they get a real interest in something," Lloyd says. "So I think that's been one of the highlights of this program." F On the Web www.fvtc.edu/ www.morainepark.edu www.nwtc.edu www.uwfox.uwc.edu/ www.uwosh.edu/ "Often times students don't get the opportunity to do internships or research projects until the junior or senior level. So one of the things our grant does is provide some opportunities for those women students to actually get in the lab or work on a project at a local company on a professional level." — Jamie Douglas, UW-Fox Valley assistant professor