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NASA Glenn Hosts Manufacturing Day

NASA’s Glenn Research Center is hosting its second annual Manufacturing Day event to educate 100 high-school students about manufacturing careers and to encourage an interest in science, technology, engineering and math.

Manufacturing Day at Glenn 2016
At Manufacturing Day 2016, students watch Pat Spanos, a master craftsman at Glenn, demonstrate a vertical machining center that creates components for jet or rocket engines such as brackets out of blocks of metal like steel and aluminum. Credits: NASA

The event will be held on Friday, Nov. 17, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Glenn, 21000 Brookpark Road.

Students from Beaumont School, Benedictine High School and Max S. Hayes High School (Cleveland); Parma Senior High School, (Parma); and St. Edward High School (Lakewood) will participate in a day-long experience that includes a question-and-answer session with a panel of engineers, facility tours  and hands-on activities.

Media interested in attending must contact Jeannette Owens at (216) 433-2990 or jeannette.p.owens@nasa.gov by noon on Thursday, Nov. 16, to register for a NASA visitor’s badge. Please include your name, citizenship, company name and estimated time of arrival in the message.

To request photographs, media representatives can send an email to jeannette.p.owens@nasa.gov.

NASA Glenn Manufacturing Day is a collaborative effort between the Office of Education at Glenn, local educational institutions and MAGNET: Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network.

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Jeannette Owens
NASA Glenn Research Center
216-433-2990
jeannette.p.owens@nasa.gov