Are you interested in networking with local woodworking industry and education professionals? Would you like to learn about local educational woodworking programs in the area? Do you enjoy hosting or participating in events and activities to support woodworking education? We intend to meet regularly and explore ways to help develop the future workforce for the woodworking industry. […]
AWFS Education Chair Meets with Legislator on CTE In September, AWFS Education Committee Chair, Don Bigelow, of Vero Software, attended an exclusive informal dinner event with Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) to discuss industry involvement with Career Technical Education (CTE). The invitation was extended to AWFS by the Association of Career and Technical Education (ACTE), one […]
Approximately 150 local area high school students and teachers attended the Manufacturing Day event hosted at Architectural Woodworking Company (AWC) near Los Angeles (CA) on Friday, October 7. Manufacturing Day is a national campaign to promote careers in manufacturing and increase awareness of the realities of the manufacturing industry by encouraging companies to offer tours […]
If you are a student, teacher or parent you will have noticed that scholarships, particularly for furniture/design/woodworking and related fields, are hard to find! That is why I am VERY happy and excited to share with you the details of a GREAT scholarship from a wonderful organization, the The American Society of Furniture Designers (ASFD)! Here are some […]
Seize the day! Manufacturing Day that is, along with multitudes of other companies across America as they salute modern manufacturing and bring it to the attention of the next generation of workers. Now in its fifth year, Manufacturing Day is a “host it or attend it” opportunity, slated for the first Friday in October […]
Check out this great event that is bringing industry and education a step closer together. It is called Manufacturing Day and it takes place each year on the first Friday in October – October 7 in 2016. The event takes place all around the country, with schools and colleges opening up their doors to showcase […]
August 9, 2016 Press Release Contact: Nancy Fister, AWFS Education Director 323.215.0303; nancy@awfs.org […]
AWFS Public Policy Update, from NAM’s Manufacturing Economic Daily Briefs The Washington Post (6/7, Eilperin) reports the Senate on Tuesday evening, through a voice vote, “unanimously” passed legislation updating the 40-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA, clearing the way for President Obama’s signature. The bipartisan bill to “overhaul the way the federal government regulates […]
For a variety of higher education learners, your dissertation is the most vital bit of tutorial writing you are likely to have carried out on the whole course. For a few courses, the mark you get in your dissertation piece can account for up to 70% of one’s whole mark. It’s always most clearly the […]
Sound like too much long-range planning? Think again. Educators are now saying that for many students and their parents, high school age is too late to introduce them to technical careers. If you want today’s kids to consider jobs in the skilled trades, they need to be exposed in middle school. Fortunately, it’s happening. The […]
