OrthoWorx Plans ‘Think Ortho Tour’ For 8th-Graders
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OrthoWorx has announced plans for a Think Ortho Tour where students and parents will tour several facilities.
The purpose of the event is to lure young people into a career path in the growing orthopedic industry.
The tour will be Oct. 5 and include visits to Ivy Tech’s Orthopedic and Advanced Manufacturing Training Center, the Warsaw Area Career Center and a local orthopedic company, Precision Medical Technologies.
Students and parents will learn about the orthopedic industry, advanced manufacturing career opportunities available in the Warsaw region and the skills needed to pursue those careers.
Tour times will be 9 a.m. to noon and 4 to 7 p.m. To register as a parent or student, contact a guidance counselor.
The Think Ortho Tour is part of OrthoWorx’s talent development initiative to address the skills gap in the orthopedic industry, particularly in advanced manufacturing fields.
The program started as a bus tour for local teachers, administrators and guidance counselors, but has now grown to include students and their parents.
“Ivy Tech Community College aims to generate awareness around the various career options available in orthopedic manufacturing here in Kosciusko County,” stated Tom Till, director of Advanced Manufacturing at the Orthopedic and Advanced Manufacturing Center at Ivy Tech Warsaw.
“The Think Ortho Tour will provide individuals a chance to see these high-level careers first-hand as well as the local educational resources that can prepare them for these positions.”
This program is open to students from Warsaw Community, Tippecanoe Valley and Whitko Community schools whose students feed into the Warsaw Area Career Center. It is also open to eighth-grade students from Wawasee Community Schools.
Selected eighth-grade students and their parents/guardians will receive communications from their respective schools throughout the weeks leading up to the Think Ortho Tour.
