Wilkes CC receives $4,000 manufacturing camp grant
-- Plant Engineering, 4/18/2008 7:59:00 AM
According to a report in the Mountain Times, the Ashe campus of Wilkes Community College was named a winner of a 2008 manufacturing camp grant awarded jointly by the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Foundation (FMAF) and the Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs Foundation (NBTF).
The grants are given to not-for-profit organizations and educational institutions that offer overnight or day camp experiences that introduce young people aged 12 to16 to careers in manufacturing and engineering.
Wilkes Community College, which received a $4,000 award, is one of 26 recipients nationally announced in March at the Metal Matters 2008 executive summit, a three-day conference sponsored by FMA and The Tube & Pipe Association, International (TPA).
The winners were named in a press conference by John Ratzenberger, host of the Travel Channel's "John Ratzenberger's Made in America," former Cheers star and co-founder of NBTF, a charitable organization dedicated to introducing young people to the pleasures of tinkering, and Terrence Egan, director of the FMA Foundation, an educational, research and charitable organization that promotes metal forming and fabricating technology in manufacturing.
