Rockwell Automation Calls on Next Generation of Innovators, Builders and Makers to Dream Big with “You Make It” Challenge
June 13 2019 - 10:05AM
Business Wire
Challenge aims to build on the creative passion and excite the
next generation about technology and manufacturing
As our world reinvents itself daily, Rockwell Automation, the
world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and
information, helps shape the future through its new brand promise,
Expanding Human Possibility. The company brings that new brand
promise to life with the “You Make It” Challenge, tapping young
innovators for the next big ideas in technology and
manufacturing.
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By putting a call out to young innovators, Rockwell Automation
is asking the next generation of builders and makers, ages 8-17, to
share ways they would make the world work better. The goal of
tasking young builders to exercise their practical and
technological creativity is to expand what is humanly possible in
the space, building the next generation of tech and manufacturing
innovators.
“Today’s dynamic new technologies are driving advances in nearly
every profession and industrial sector – from cars to medicine,”
said Blake Moret, chairman and CEO at Rockwell Automation. “But
there aren’t nearly enough skilled workers to fill the open jobs
created by these technologies. It’s up to us, as an industrial
automation and information leader, to inspire the next generation
of innovators, problem solvers and makers.”
Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
projects that employment in STEM-related occupations will outpace
overall job growth by nearly double – growing to more than 9
million between 2012 and 2022. A recent Deloitte
study revealed the skills gap may leave an estimated
2.4 million manufacturing positions unfilled between 2018 and
2028, with a potential economic impact of $2.5
trillion. Rockwell Automation is up to the challenge, as it
challenges the next generation.
Submissions from the “You Make It” Challenge will be judged on
four main criteria: purpose, innovation, creativity and
presentation. Three finalists will receive a grant toward a FIRST
program of their choice and an all-expense-paid trip to Chicago,
where they will be paired with a Rockwell Automation mentor to help
them present their ideas to industry leaders at Automation Fair®,
the premier industrial automation event. One grand-prize winner
will then receive a personal Maker Space Kit worth an estimated
$7,500.
“Through our technology and people, we are helping to inspire
the next generation of innovators to fill the talent pipelines for
our customers and for our company,” Moret said.
Complete details for the “You Make It” Challenge can be found at
www.YouMakeItChallenge.com.
About Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world’s largest
company dedicated to industrial automation and information, makes
its customers more productive and the world more sustainable.
Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., Rockwell Automation employs
approximately 23,000 people serving customers in more than 80
countries.
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