Butler Intermediate students competing in manufacturing video contest
Seventh- and eighth-grade students stepped onto the floor at JSP Manufacturing in East Butler to watch workers perform their daily duties that make products come together.
Breit Cochran, an eighth-grade history teacher at Butler Area Intermediate High School, said the students’ understanding of not only how products are made, but how much of their lives are impacted by the work of manufacturers is like a revelation in the moment.
“Once they start to talk to the manufacturers, they come to the conclusion that everything in my life is manufactured,” Cochran said. “It was amazing, all the companies were such great hosts.”
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