---Marshall Advanced Manufacturing Center (MAMC) has announced the inaugural recipients of the Mary “Mickey” Welch Scholarship. Each of the four full-time students in MAMC’s career skills programs will receive $1,000 scholarships to support their educational pursuits.

---Winners were selected based on their academic standing as well as essays they wrote explaining their decision to pursue careers in manufacturing in addition to their personal and professional goals, according to MAMC Director Derek Scarbro.

---The recipients are Savannah Black, first-semester CNC Machine Tool Technology student from Charleston; Jordan Chapman of Huntington and Jessica Setliff of Hurricane, both third-semester SMART (Systems Maintenance, Automation and Robotics Technology) students; and Gregory Meadows a third-semester Welding Technology student from Kenova.

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---In a repurposed old building on Main Street in Sutton, a creature of colossal proportions slowly comes to life.

---World-renowned sculptors Bill Hopen and Ai Qui Hopen – West Virginians by choice – transform Ai Qui’s carefully crafted work of art – a 4-foot clay buffalo sculpture – into an 18-foot-long, 12-foot-tall, three-ton metal monument for the city of Buffalo, New York.

---Morphing a hand-formed sculpture into a larger-than-life beast is a gargantuan task in itself. How does one reproduce exact features to scale? And perhaps more importantly, how does one ensure the structural integrity of the buffalo once it’s enshrined atop a 10-foot-tall fountain, where it must withstand fierce ice storms and the buffeting winds off Lake Erie?

---Bill had an idea but wasn’t sure where to turn.

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---Skyler Clagg first walked through the doors of Marshall Advanced Manufacturing Center (MAMC) in 2014 as a scraggly 13-year-old, eager to participate in one of our 3D printing camps. The running joke around the office is that he never left—thank goodness!

---The former 3D printer and maker camp participant, now a Marshall University sophomore majoring in computer science, has become MAMC’s go-to problem-solver for nearly any technical issue. Phone not working? Computer acting up? 3D printer misbehaving? Audiovisual system on the blink? Nine times out of ten, Skyler is the one with a solution.

---“I’ve always been curious about how things work,” Clagg said. “When I was about 10, I took apart a Windows XP desktop just to see how it operated. Unfortunately, I also took apart the monitor. That wasn’t such a good idea.”

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---With its industrial maintenance-focused S.M.A.R.T. program, Marshall Advanced Manufacturing Center (MAMC) continues its partnership with Toyota West Virginia by assisting the automaker – as well as companies all across the state and region – that are facing workforce skills challenges.
---This recent Forbes article details the automotive industry leader’s focus on filling the skills gap with the talent of local, young workers through an innovative work-and-learn approach at MAMC in tandem with Toyota’s successful “Grown Your Own” workforce strategy.

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