From May 12th to May 28th, 2024, Danko Arlington, Inc. was honored to host four very bright Gilman High School students for their Senior Encounter Program.
Gilman School is an all-boys independent school located in Baltimore, Maryland and is located about four miles from Danko Arlington. The Seniors will graduate at the end of May and will soon start as college freshmen in the Fall. Their majors include Chemical Engineering at Carnagie Mellon University, Aerospace Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Entrepreneurship at the University of California—Santa Cruz (Baskin), and Electrical Engineering/Computer Science at University of California, Berkely. The students chose the company to see first-hand a well-established local manufacturer and how their future studies will apply.
Danko Arlington enjoyed the opportunity to showcase its traditional pattern, foundry, and machining practices and state-of-the-art Industry 4.0 technology including 3-D plastic and sand printing, solidification simulation with finite element analysis, CAD, optical 3-D scanning, advanced metrology, and robust ERP software.
The student’s encounter was a great way to experience a manufacturing working environment, not to mention what is like to eventually enter the working world. Lessons-learned at this stage will no doubt be memorable. Likewise, the company too can better prepare for its future, particularly witnessing first-hand interest and trends from the next generation, what it will take to retain and engage our youth, and how the latest technology and upcoming AI will soon transform our working environments – even a one-hundred-and-four-year-old-foundry business!
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