ATTENTION West Virginia High School Teachers! 

Thinking critically about the importance of simple machines in everyday life?

The challenge requires students to design and evaluate solutions to a complex real-world problem by breaking it down into smaller steps and using the engineering design process. 

CONTEST begins Monday, May 4, 2020 | All submissions must be received by 5:00 pm Monday, May 11^th

• CONTESTANTS: West Virginia Middle School Students
• STARTS: Monday, April 20, 2020
• END: Monday, May 4, 2020 at 5:00pm
• PRIZES: Five classes, randomly selected, will win a $100 Amazon gift card to use for their classroom.
• ELIGIBILTY: To be entered into the drawling, a middle school teacher must submit 10 or more completed scavenger hunt questionnaires from their class.
• HOW IT WORKS: In this virtual scavenger hunt, individual hunters take a field trip to 12 West Virginia manufacturing
  companies. The virtual tours are provided by the 2020 West Virginia What’s So Cool AboutManufacturing? Video Contest. Each video will contain answers for the scavenger hunt questions.

Wow, what a contest!  Social distancing may have extended the voting period and delayed the awards ceremonies, but it didn’t derail our efforts.  Thanks to Paul Ruggieri, Glass Valley Media LLC, we were able to produce virtual ceremonies to recognize the student participants.

NORTHERN Awards:

• Outstanding Creativity:  Sherrard Middle School with The Ziegenfelder Company 
• Best Manufacturing Message:  Brooke Middle School with Eagle Manufacturing Company 
• Viewer’s Choice: Oak Glen Middle School with The Fiesta Tableware Company

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — ND Paper has donated personal protective equipment to health care providers across the state.

According to a release sent out by the West Virginia Manufacturers Association, ND Paper donated 1,500 Tyvek suits and 30,000 surgical masks to providers in the state who have been testing and treating state residents for the coronavirus.

Wheeling, WV – Explore: The New Manufacturing will hold a virtual awards ceremony for the Northern West Virginia student video contest, What’s So Cool About Manufacturing? on Tuesday, April 14th, at 6:30pm.  The ceremony will be available on the Explore YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/mmmyQ6Ocmeg