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'What's So Cool About Manufacturing' videos

Hoping to promote manufacturing as a career, Manufacturers Resource Center, an organization in the Lehigh Valley, came up with idea of having teams of middle-schoolers pair up with area manufacturers to produce short videos that answer the question: "What's So Cool about Manufacturing?" At the end of the year, there's a contest to see which videos are the best. Now that same program is being expanded into Philadelphia, Bucks and Montgomery counties. Here are some of the videos produced about Lehigh Valley and Chester County companies.

Ocean Spray

Northwestern Lehigh Middle School's "What's So Cool About Manufacturing" video featuring an Ocean Spray plant near Breinigsville begins as a middle-school narrator holds up a white-collared shirt and a blue-collared shirt, trying to figure which he needs for a job in manufacturing. Both, he's told. Too bad for him that he tossed both the shirts behind him into one of Ocean Spray's cranberry bogs. Northwestern Lehigh Middle School is located in New Tripoli. Both the school and the plant are in Lehigh County.

Just Born

Students from Broughal Middle School challenged common perceptions of manufacturing with a trip to Just Born Quality Confections, maker of Peeps, in their "What's So Cool About Manufacturing?" video. Both the school and the company are in Bethlehem.

Omega Design Corp.

You can see a video overview and find out more about the project here.