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F a l l 2 0 1 9 • S T U F F 2 1 C O M P A N Y P R O F I L E S S T U F F M a d e I n N H . c o m at Hypertherm, Inc., directly after high school by attending the company's Summer Institute and other programming. During those early experiences at Hypertherm, "I really thought it was a good job," said Spaulding, who is now a technician at the company. "It's a great place to work, a great place to start a career. I enjoy the environment that Hypertherm created, the family and close-type atmosphere, and the teamwork. "I learn new things every single day . . . [and] the advancement is crazy," he said. "You can go all the way up the food chain if you put your nose down and work. And they're more than willing to help you out to get there. They want you to get there. They want everyone to succeed." Starting in high school As a 16-year-old summer intern, Calista Chappell has gotten a taste of the real-life manufacturing world at an even younger age than Spaulding did, by taking advantage of a years-long partnership between Hitchiner Manufacturing and Milford High School, where she is a senior this fall. With ambitions of working in engineering, Chappell appreciates the opportunities the company has given her. "I thought I'd be in one section, working with the same group of people, but they moved me around from product engineering to quality engineering, process engineering, and all those different sections, which was really nice because I got to work with a lot of people and I learned a lot more than I could have at school," Chappell said. Her experiences at Hitchiner have been invaluable, she says, "because you can see what you're more interested in and what Tom Beaulieu did training this summer at Milford manufacturing company Hitchiner, Inc. The Hitchiner training program includes a lot of hands-on experience to expose young people to a career in manufacturing.