Area students got to experience on Tuesday what you may have already known: Door County is a manufacturing hub with countless job opportunities available. Hundreds of students from Sevastopol, Sturgeon Bay, Southern Door, and Gibraltar visited more than a dozen manufacturers throughout the peninsula, including candles and coffee in Carlsville, cheese in Algoma, and metal component parts in Sturgeon Bay. Sevastopol School District Counselor Melissa Malcore says Tuesday was great for students to see the different ways manufacturing looks in Door County

Like many area manufacturers, NEW Industries Vice President of Manufacturing Operations Dave Moore says there is plenty of need for good, hard-working individuals. Many of those hard-working individuals now come from the youth apprenticeship through the schools in Door and Kewaunee counties. Moore wants to show those students what is possible in their own backyard.

Organized by the Door County Economic Development Corporation, Hatco, Therma-Tron-X, NEW Industries, Renards Cheese, Door County Candle, Cadence, Itasca, Door County Coffee, Hi-Tec Fabrication, Wiretech Fabrication, ExacTech, Marine Travelift, Just in Time, and Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding were the manufacturers that participated in Tuesday’s event. October is Manufacturing Month across the country.