4 Ways to Support Medical Packaging Education

With skilled labor harder than ever to find, it’s everyone’s responsibility to encourage young people to see a medical packaging career as interesting and lucrative. This is the philosophy behind a 30-year relationship between Prent Corporation (Janesville, WI) and University of Wisconsin-Stout (Menomonie, WI). Together they’ve supported hundreds of young professionals entering into packaging, much to the benefit of the students, the school, and the industry as a whole. Prent is a medical packaging thermoform company that strives to bring more talented people into the industry. Interest in Stout began three decades ago when Prent founder, Joe Pregont, graduated from Stout in 1981 with a degree in industrial technology with a packaging concentration. Since then, Prent has worked with Stout to host career fairs, sponsor scholarships, employ interns and co-ops, lend employees for teaching and guest lecturing, sponsor Packaging Jamborees and trips to Pack Expo, and help create a state-of-the-art packaging lab. Over the years, Prent and Stout have learned lessons about the best ways to encourage students to join the industry and make it better, and they have tips on how to help others do the same. Tip 1: Don’t just throw money at it While financial support is important to support schools, it takes more than a one-time donation to make a real difference in an education program. While Prent donated more than $1 ...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: Packaging Source Type: news