Interest at Worcester Technical High School (WTHS) in the fields of Machining, Sheet Metal and Welding is disproportionately low when compared to the industrial demand for workers in these fields. To help promote these programs, videos of the shops in action were created to aid the instructors in the recruitment of incoming freshman. Interviews with successful seniors at the school were also filmed. Lastly, a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the competitive wages of the metal fabrication fields was created. These tools have been provided to WTHS, as well as to the individual shop instructors, to spread positive information about these important trades. -

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Creator

• Proulx, Dennis Winston
• Hill, Patrick S.

Subject

• Industry
• Learning
• Computing

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-052408-142857

Keyword

• Marketing

Advisor

• Sisson, Richard D.

Year

• 2008

Center

• Worcester Community Project Center (Massachusetts) - IQP

Sponsor

• Worcester Technical High School (WTHS)

Date created

• 2008-05-24

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright