Wells Academy

CNC Machinist Trade School

Student Application

Overview:
This is a non-profit,12-month, 40-hour per week, paid student training program to provide job skills for CNC machinist employment. Industrial training begins with safety and includes machining operations, tooling, project bidding, computer programming, quality control, and supervision.

Learning is by interactive computer lessons, hands-on machine operation, real-world customer projects, and field trips. Each student will use modern CNC equipment and have a Mentor for individual instruction.

Goals:
Wells Academy strives to help people in economically disadvantaged areas.

To provide CNC machinists and skilled industrial employees to fill open job positions.
To provide individualized on-the-job training through a student program and mentoring.
To bring employment challenged groups into balance with the general population.

For example, manufacturing employs approximately 20% of the qualified overall work force, but only 5% of the qualified Native American work force.

Program Outline:

Serving Native American people.
Manufacturing driven education.
Student program with 40-hour/week wages.
Mentor support with 10% progress incentive.
Daily student evaluations and incentives.
Interactive technical lessons by PC/DVD.
"Lean" training for educational efficiency.
State-of-the-art equipment and modern processes.
Real-world projects and customer interaction.
Industrial certification upon training completion.

Elder Advisors:

Native American elders are guest speakers at Wells Academy. They teach the students how to live a healthy life and be productive citizens with respect to the Native American culture.

	Youth Career Days: Wells Academy hosts field trip tours at Wells Technology to show students career opportunities in the areas of inventing, engineering, patenting, manufacturing, inspecting, packaging, and marketing in the American industry. Since 2009, over 530 area students have visited Wells Technology.
Connecting students to careers, professionals to communities, and communities to better health.	Community Outreach: Wells Technology & Wells Academy are represented on the Board of Directors of NW MN AHEC to help people pursue health and manufacturing career paths that are beneficial to them as well as adding value to their communities, thus improving the health of the citizens.

Wells Academy has been developed and is supported by Wells Technology and other financial grants.
For more information, contact: Wells Academy Or call: 218-751-5117