The Precision Metalforming Association Educational Foundation (PMAEF), Cleveland, OH, an organization established to support and develop training and education for metal-forming skills and to improve the aware-ness of careers in metalforming, awarded a total of 34,370 dollars in grants to five programs created to enhance the U.S. metalforming workforce. Following is a summary of the grants awarded: 10,000 dollars to the Connecticut Business Industry Association's Manufacture Your Future Careers Exposition, held in Hartford, CT, on May 16-17. The event was designed to expose 3000 middle- and high-school students to advanced manufacturing by displaying technology such as CAD/CAM, coil slitting, metal finishing and CNC programming. 5000 dollars to the Jane Addams Resource Corp. to supplement its funding for the Manufacturing Technology Summer Camp, held in July 2006 as part of the Education-to-Careers Program. The summer camp exposed 14 students to manufacturing technology in a concentrated curriculum.
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