Student Day at METALFORM--a special opportunity for students, instructors, and parents to meet and talk with metalforming companies, explore career opportunities, and see the latest state-of-the-art equipment demonstrations.

Dear instructor/administrator: 
We look forward to welcoming your student group to METALFORM. Here are the answers to the quiz questions found in the Student section on this web site. We encourage you to visit www.pmaef.org often with your students to continue their learning experience.

1- D   2 - E   3 - A   4 - C   5 - B

METALFORMING is the industry that gives utility to sheet metal by shaping it using tooling in machines.

A TOOL & DIE MAKER is a skilled operator of machine tools who creates and maintains the tooling, fixtures, and equipment necessary for metalforming.

Skills necessary to become a MACHINE OPERATOR include basic math, problem solving, reading and writing, communication, computer, teamwork.

Some BENEFITS OF A CAREER IN METALFORMING include good pay, competitive benefit packages, stability, portability of skills, opportunities for training, potential for rapid growth, challenging work, job security.

C. -- The AVERAGE ANNUAL INCOME for the metalforming industry is $33,000.

D. -- The VALUE OF THE TRANSFER PRESS is $5 million.

TRUE -- Skills learned in the metalforming industry are transferable throughout the country.

1. Ask your students to go to the library, look in the help wanted section of an out-of-town Sunday newspaper, and count jobs listed under tool & die and the metalforming processes mentioned in this program.
2. Have your students look around their houses and list things that might be metalformed.
3. Contact a nearby metalforming facility (visit PMA’s web site at www.metalforming.com for a list of member companies in your area) to arrange a plant tour and have your students write a report on what they saw.

         METALFORM, the premier trade show for the precision metal stamping and fabricating industries, is sponsored annually by Precision Metalforming Association.  Each year at METALFORM, Student Day is a special opportunity for students, accompanied by their instructors, school administrators, parents, and other adult supervisors, to meet and talk with leading-edge exhibitors and see the latest state-of-the-art equipment demonstrations. Exhibitors display technology, information, and ideas, targeted for the metalforming, and fabricating industries.

         Student participation begins with a short orientation by representatives of PMA, the metalforming industry trade association, and its member companies.  Participants view a video and receive literature describing career opportunities in the industry.  Each instructor also receives a free Student Ambassador Program, including the video and support literature, for use in promoting career opportunities back at the group's school.  After the orientation, student groups are led to the show floor for a self-guided tour, directed by a list of designated "Student Friendly" exhibitors and others where "technology at work" is demonstrated.

           Thank you for your continued efforts to educate America’s future workforce!