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20 | /INSIGHT ON MANUFACTURING • September 2015 w w w.in s i g h t o n m f g . c o m "It's more critical now than ever to expose young people to manufacturing as a viable career choice," he says. "Over the next five or six years, we will have about one-third of our workforce at our Green Bay facility retire. Many other companies are seeing the same thing." Bushmaker and Franz presented the plan for the math videos during the Wisconsin Math Council in May and the teachers were excited about the production. "I really think that the teachers who come to this will get a lot out of it, and it'll be a great event," Bushmaker says. "Ultimately, my hope is that more and more schools will start using the videos and become aware of them. "I think it's a great collaborative effort with both education and manufacturers working together to create something that's going to be useful to them, the community and manufacturers," he says. e event is free for manufacturers and educators. "Plus, we're giving some great prizes away," Franz says. All math teachers will be entered into a drawing for a $500 cash award for their school and $500 also will be given to a technical education department. Tickets to October's Manufacturing First Expo & Conference and the K-12 Education Manufacturing Partnership also will be given away. Also at the event, one local manufacturing company will be selected to be featured in an upcoming math video, each of which costs about $2,000 to produce. F BUSINESS SOLUTIONS MADE BETTER. YOU CAN BANK ON IT. Fox Valley (920) 237-5126 Green Bay (920) 469-0500 Manitowoc (920) 652-3100 Sheboygan (920) 694-1900 For better banking, think First www.BankFirstNational.com Business banking has never been easier when you partner with Bank First. Our team helps businesses large and small to achieve their goals with financial solutions customized to fit their current and future needs. Bill Rehn Curry Kuehl Joel Steber Aaron Faulkner Joan Woldt ■ Design-build ■ Commercial ■ Industrial 920.733.7305 | www.crstructures.com 571 Marcella St. | Kimberly, WI 54136 Listen better. Plan better. Build better. "I would highly recommend CR Structures Group and will use them again. From planning to building they exceeded our expectations." – Owner, PolyFlex, Inc. If you go The Get Real Math Video Premiere will be from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Sept. 30 at the Meyer Theater in downtown Green Bay. The event is free. See the alliance's math videos online at www.newmfgalliance.org/math- videos.html.