"Every year, new kids – I ask them what we do in
manufacturing – silence," Orloski said. "No one knows
what it is. And it's so much different than what it was."
Zoomers & Millennials' advantage
with technology
Orloski, along with David Tuttle at Platt Technical
High School in Milford, is amazed at the speed in
which new students are able to pick up manufacturing.
But a lot of that has to do, said Tuttle, with the tech-
nology and innovation being done in the manufactur-
ing field and how that combines nicely with the daily
lives of his students.
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(Left) Paul Ong, lead artist at VR Sim in East Hartford,
test the training system for painters. (Right) The
SimSprayGo system at VR Sim is designed to be a
portable version of the training system.
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