industry to conquer young people
“It’s super interesting, it’s very educational. And virtual reality is a good way to show us things! »Carla, Sofia, Philly and Silvana, all second year students at Berthollet high school, put a 20/20 in the activities of the Industry Village. A great discovery for these studious students who could not imagine “all the trades offered by industry. We imagine that it was mostly manufacturing, but there are plenty of projects, products… ”
Innovations made in Haute-Savoie
Like more than 300 other middle and high school students, they spent their morning on Wednesday, October 13 under the imposing marquee installed on Place François-de-Menthon for the Annecy stage of the French Fab Tour. A traveling tour, with 13 stops throughout France, aimed at promoting the industry and its trades, and announcing vocations.
In Annecy, the organization of this event was led by the Haute-Savoie metallurgy union chamber , which mobilized the industrialists of the territory. Professionals who took the time to present their companies and their professions.
How many of the students present this Wednesday morning will one day work in one of the large companies in the region to meet them for this operation aimed at dusting off the image of the industry? The story does not say. But the participants will now know that the industry offers a wide variety of missions and professions (more than 150 for industries related to metallurgy), but also work opportunities abroad, attractive salaries, etc. that in its various sectors of activity, it innovates on a daily basis to better meet the needs of society.
Innovations made in France and made in Haute-Savoie, the young visitors were able to discover, handling with interest the 100% electric snowbike that the start-up MoonBikes, established in Annecy, manufactures in Marignier, at Bosch. Or discovering with curiosity the H3 Bike, the intelligent electric-assisted bicycle, imagined and entirely manufactured by four companies in the Arve Valley (Savoy International, Pracartis, M20, Alpes Usinage), in partnership with other high-end companies. Savoyard (Mavic, NTN-SNR…) like the Plum bindings.
They also know that at the end of the lake, in Faverges-Seythenex, Stäubli manufactures robots, which are used in a multitude of sectors of activity. And they will no doubt remember the bearings for the automobile, aeronautics … manufactured a few kilometers from home by NTN-SNR, because they virtually visited one of the group’s factories, even entering machines, a reality helmet. virtual on the head …
“Annecy is a land of industry. Making our know-how known is necessary so that young people in turn contribute to the development of this great economy ”, announced the mayor of Annecy, François Astorg, at the time of the inauguration.
After the school leaves and before the arrival of job seekers, people in integration and the public invited to their tour to come and discover an industry which has jobs to offer and which needs to recruit.