{"id":8461,"date":"2016-10-06T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/troy-mayor-visits-campus-on-national-manufacturing-day-friday-oct-7\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T16:00:32","slug":"troy-mayor-visits-campus-on-national-manufacturing-day-friday-oct-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/troy-mayor-visits-campus-on-national-manufacturing-day-friday-oct-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy mayor visits campus on National Manufacturing Day &#8212; Friday, Oct. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Troy Mayor Patrick Madden visits campus at noon on Friday, Oct. 7 to tour the college&#8217;s Advanced Manufacturing Technology facility with President Drew Matonak and David Larkin, professor in the AMT program.<\/p>\n<p>Madden&#8217;s visit coincides with National Manufacturing Day, an annual celebration of modern manufacturing meant to inspire the next generation of manufacturers, as well as kicks off Troy Manufacturing Week.<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing represents the 9th largest economy in the world, supporting over 18.5 million jobs in the United States alone. However, a recent assessment of US manufacturing found a significant shortage of talent available to fill open skilled positions, a trend that is projected to increase over the next decade. Cities like Troy have a role in encouraging young people to explore potential career opportunities in manufacturing through events like Troy Manufacturing Week, according to John Salka, the mayor&#8217;s deputy director of public information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 06 Oct 2016 12:00:32 +0000 by\u00a0d.gardner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Troy Mayor Patrick Madden visits campus at noon on Friday, Oct. 7 to tour the college&#8217;s Advanced Manufacturing Technology&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}