Creating More Student-Run Businesses in Schools

Cardinal Manufacturing in the Eleva-Strum School District in Wisconsin is a student-run manufacturing business that has repair services, welding services, woodworking services, machining services, design services, and 3D printing services. Additionally, they are on a mission to create more student-run technical education programs in the United States. They offer a workshop for educators on how to create a student-run business in other school districts. The next workshop will be on October 17th, 2024. To learn more about this workshop, visit their website.

Cardinal Manufacturing’s outreach in creating more student-run businesses has the potential to be great. In the 2024- 2025 school year, they will be traveling to Chicago, Washington state and Las Vegas. It is impressive that this group assists other schools to achieve similar success.  The program is led by Craig Cegielski and Tyson Rohrschieb who are technical education instructors for the program. To learn more about their program, check out their website.