Manufacturing to some degree
Local metal shop students on Wednesday were out of the classroom and onto the production line.
"(It) gives them something to look at career wise, and education wise, and gives them some direction," said Todd Teague, Metal Shop Instructor at Reed High School.
"I definitely want to do an automotive, manufacturing to some degree, working on them or being part of the production line," said Jacob Maher, and Auto Shop Student.
As part of manufacturing week students toured Lincoln Cutting Systems and other facilities to see what jobs are availible for the skills they're learning in school.
"I was actually hoping to go into something like this because I don't want to go into a career where it is all on the computer and I have nothing to show for it," said Eryk Allen, a Metal Shop Student.
On their tour students learned how machines are thought up, designed, engineered, and manufactured. It's the same thing they are learning in school, just on a higher level.
"We wanted to show students that there are businesses here in Reno, here in Nevada that run the gamut of manufacturing jobs," said Travis Carr.
A partial goal of this project is to change the stigma of manufacturing. It's often seen as blue collar grunt work but the tour showed that is not the case.