Thank you!
| Thank you to these partners who through their active participation & payment of their membership fees help our program provide high-quality career & technical education for the next generation of leaders in manufacturing:
Aallied Die Casting of IL Abrasive-Form Arrow Gear Company Aztec Plastic Company Belden, Inc Brite Site C. Cretors & Co. Chicago Metal Fabricators Chicago Paper Tube & Can Co. Columbia Metal Spinning Cragin Metals DeCardy Diecasting Dudek-Bock Dudek Manufacturing Co. Freedman Seating Graymills Company Hudson Precision Machining IMS Buhrke-Olson Janler Corporation Johnson Controls Label Master Laystrom Manufacturing Co. Matrix Tooling, Inc Mazak Corp. Menasha Packaging NADCA Overton Chicago Gear P-K Tool & Mfrg Co. Paasche Airbrush Co. Plymouth Tube Co. Saporito Finishing Co. Sunstar Americas Inc. TMA Education Fdn. Tower Oil & Technology WaterSaver Faucet Winzeler Gear Company Wrightwood Precision Zenith Fabricating Company We also receive generous support from:
Bank of America City of Chicago Field Foundation of Illinois John R. Houlsby Foundation The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation The Kendeda Fund William G. McGowan Charitable Fund The Nathan Cummings Foundation
The Polk Brothers Foundation
Surdna Foundation
Society for Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation
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About Austin Polytech
| Austin Polytechnical Academy is an engineering- and manufacturing-focused and college prep public high school on Chicago's West Side.
Thanks to the support of nearly 60 partner companies, our students learn about the many different career opportunities in manufacturing through field trips, guest speaker visits, job shadowing opportunities, internships, and more.
Austin Polytech's Career Program is a project of the Chicago Manufacturing Renaissance Council. Our career program is operated by Manufacturing Renaissance.
Learn more at austinpolytech.org
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Support our Career Program
| It takes more than a traditional high school budget to help our students engineer their future.
Please help by sending us a check, payable to Manufacturing Renaissance, at 3411 West Diversey, Suite 10, Chicago, Illinois 60647.
You can also contribute online securely through PayPal by clicking below:
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Contact
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Austin Polytechnical Academy 231 N. Pine Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60644
Main Office: (773) 534-6311 Career Services: (773) 534-6326
austinpolytech.org
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I want to welcome students, parents and staff back for the 2013-2014 school year. APA made some positive gains last year, and we want to continue moving in the right direction. Let's prepare to work hard to ensure we are successful.
-Principal Muhammad
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Where Are They Now?
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Austin Polytech is unique because it provides graduates with opportunities to pursue higher education and/or work for manufacturing companies, making money and building their careers right out of high school. Here are a few great examples:
Diquan, Class 2012
- Highlight: President and Owner Joan Wrenn told us: "Finding a great employee like Diquan who is also serious about continuing his education reinforces my commitment to supporting a school like Austin Polytech."
Click here to read more.
Asia, Class of 2012
- Highlights: Asia told us the best part about her job is "the learning experience that I am gaining while being there and me knowing that I am helping to make my company to be #1."
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Rahkeem, Class of 2012
- Highlights: Rahkeem takes great pride in his job and feels a great sense of accomplishment when his supervisor tells him that the parts he makes are correct. In the future Rahkeem is thinking about studying architecture or work towards becoming a foreman at Paasche Airbrush Co..
Click here to read more. Desmond and Mark, Class of 2012 - Highlights: "I knew exactly what I was doing when I first started because of what I learned at school" said Desmond who will be working while attending Triton College in the fall of 2013 and majoring in pre-engineering. Mark also has aspirations to attend school or the military in the near future and believes that his manufacturing training will help to build the foundation for his career.
Click here to read more. Javon, Class of 2013 and Trevon, Class of 2012 - Machine Operators: Trevon has been operating a "Four Slide" machine since December 2012. Javon has been on the job for nearly one month and is training to be a machine operator. Both young men are responsible for troubleshooting machinery as well as for making sure that the dimensions of the parts produced are correct.
Click here to read more. Torres, Class of 2012 - Highlights: Torres says he enjoys the freedom that his job gives him. He gets to work with his hands and does not have to be in the same place for the whole day. Torres says his biggest challenge is making sure he gets to work on time, but he accomplishes it and cannot remember the last time he was late. He feels a sense of accomplishment because he knows that the parts he is making are going into a quality product that is used all over the United States.
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Summer Job Program Highlights
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Denisha, Freedman Seating
Best Part: meeting friendly people, especially Susie.
Most Challenging: learning the importance of timing, completing tasks quickly enough.
Damion, Dudek & Bock Best Part: eating lunch with coworkers and learning how people respect you if you work hard. Most Challenging: learning to communicate with people who speak different languages. Kenney, Freedman Seating Best Part: learning how to weld and use the manual lathe. Most Challenging: having a boss and learning how to communicate effectively with them.
Sylvia, Dudek & Bock
Best Part: enjoyed that opportunity to have a summer job and was proud of the fact that she was one of only three women in the company that knew how to weld.
Most Challenging: making sure that all of the parts that she created met the correct specifications.
Delafonte, DeCardy Diecasting
Best Part: friendly co-workers and they were clear in the instructions they gave him that made his job seem easy.
Most Challenging: making sure that he did not misplace any of the parts he made.
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