Baltimore County, MD NextUp: Baltimore County, 24 Oct 2016

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From YouTube: Who's Making it?

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Baltimore County is still strong in manufacturing, things are made here and thousands work here in manufacturing. Join NextUp Baltimore County as we look at who’s making things today, and who will be making them tomorrow.

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This is next up: Baltimore County, we're focusing on the things we make in Baltimore, County who's, making them and who's gonna make them tomorrow. My.

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Name is JC Beatty, my family owns ATI performance products and we manufacture high performance, precision, racecar parts right here in Baltimore, County.

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I'm Matt Turpin I'm, with Zen tech manufacturing we're an engineering and electronics manufacturing company here in Baltimore, Maryland have about 150 people at this location and we build products ranging from small little consumer devices. You know we make things kind of like a Fitbit all the way up to you know large pieces. Military equipments about half of our business is defense and aerospace, but the other half of our business is commercial in nature that we have to compete with Asian sources and we're pretty proud of the fact.

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We've been able to restore a number of jobs, we're.

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An American manufacturer right here in Baltimore County, and we want to keep it that way.

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It's really a real-world education, there's we're not following any textbook we're not following any curriculum. It's what we refer to as student driven student-centered education and we're allowing them a great broad brush to say what is it that you want to get exposed to I? Think.

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I'm really interested in the GM tour, because all the motive and I've always been interested in cars are stuff like that. Anyway, we.

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Already discussed them about how they want energy, they want people worried, fright a high school to go there all today. What we're doing is trying to get students from our local Baltimore County Public Schools into our facility, to give them a little taste of what manufacturing is like day to day. It.

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Shoni, it's not just about what they're making it's, how they're making it.

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We're looking for forward minded young folks, there's.

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The opportunity for anyone coming to this facility to learn and grow I.

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Have a brother that works here, wife that works here and a stepson that just recently got hired after five years of being a temporary employee. We.

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Have so many the baby boomers retiring, so even if the manufacturing job stayed flat or even if they declined a little bit, there are so many jobs that are opening up because of people leaving the workforce. We've.

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Never not been looking for CNC Machinists and CNC operators. The harder to fill spots are programming, CNC, programmers and some of the mechanical engineers to design the parts that you get CNC program, but.

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Students having a wide range of opportunities when they are enrolled within our school system. We have everything from health science careers to computer sciences, to manufacturing into culinary cosmetology, you name it. We got it.