Manufacturing’s Most Valuable People

Inspiring High School students to explore careers in manufacturing.

Manufacturing’s Most Valuable People is a manufacturing career awareness program that recruits young manufacturing professionals from area companies to serve as ‘MVPs’ for manufacturing careers by visiting targeted high schools and sharing about the requirements and rewards of their profession to students, teachers, and administrators.

The goal of this effort is to get more high-school students to think about manufacturing-related post-secondary education and careers.

Meet Tim Brown from Southco.

Meet Lisa Miller from Greene Tweed Co.

Meet RJ Lualhati from Globus Medical.

Purpose

The purpose of the Manufacturing’s Most Valuable People Program is to grow the talent pool of students pursuing manufacturing-related education and increase the number of students interested in STEM careers so they can become skilled employees at area manufacturing companies.

One of the most effective ways to expose area students to STEM careers, technology, and modern manufacturing environments is by introducing them to young successful employees who work in the field.

Manufacturing’s MVPs

Meet our amazing Most Valuable People! MVPs share their stories with high schoolers to help unlock interest among students to consider similar STEM careers.

Nico de Sousa Serro

Lean/Continuous Improvement Content Expert

DVIRC

Jon Etter

President

B & G Manufacturing

DaeQuan Jordan-Stead

Welding Supervisor

DeVal

RJ Lualhati

Additive Manufacturing Manager

Globus Medical

Lisa Miller

Automation Engineer

Greene, Tweed & Co.

Gunner Spain

Research Analyst

DVIRC

Benefits

Bringing an awareness of manufacturing into high schools and career and technical schools
Heightened awareness by teachers and administrators
Student awareness of advanced manufacturing
Increased interest in STEM and technical education by students and parents
Helping students learn about and understand the broad range of rewarding careers in manufacturing