Educators Tour Area Work Sites
Educators in the Workplace (EITW) has a simple goal--provide exposure of industrial and manufacturing jobs to teachers, counselors, and administrators in SE Iowa school systems so that they have a much better idea of what kinds of work are available to their students. Even if those students doing have college plans, there are lots of options for high-paying, long-term careers in the manufacturing or industrial sectors. Eighty two educators, including eight from Ottumwa, participated this year, a 37% increase over last year. Ottumwa educators included: Shelley Bramschreiber, Norm Diers, Don Hansen, Stephanie Haupert, Mary Orman, Sherri Small, Kathy Mobley, and Wendy Maas. Educators were able to tour The Ottumwa Courier and John Deere in Ottumwa, Ajinomoto and the Iowa Bio-Processing Center in Eddyville, Clow Valve, Interpower Corp. and Tassel Ridge Winery in Oskaloosa, Agri-Industrial Plastics, Dexter, Fairfield CoLab, Global ID, and Heartland Grain in Fairfield, plus a full day at Iowa Works and the IHCC north campus including the Regional Entrepreneurship Center, and IowaWorks. Our workforce and workplace is changing, and while its ever more technology driven, the basics