Youth advancement

Every summer, Nolato GW offers a comprehensive internship program to local technical students. Based in our Bethel, VT headquarters or nearby Royalton, VT Manufacturing & Technology Campus, students participate in a rigorous 12-week program that exposes them to all of the various engineering disciplines in the organization. Our internship program was built to provide students with an outlet to obtain employable skills that will prepare them for their world after graduation. Every intern is assigned a project that they develop throughout the program, culminating in project presentations to the senior management group at the program graduation. Interns graduate from the program with tangible results that will help jump-start their careers.

Nolato Contour offers a variety of internships and co-ops for college students. These paid internships and co-ops will provide students with hands on experience, working directly with departments that they are interested in pursuing a career in.  Past interns have been provided with learning opportunities in Quality Engineering, Metrology, Process Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering and Project Engineering.  These hands-on experiences provide exposure to all aspects of the operations and in many cases direct contact with Nolato customers.  Our conversion rate from the internship opportunities to full time employment is significant.  The internships we offer are unique and highly sought after.

In response to a growing national skilled labor shortage, Nolato GW has launched a School of Tech that exposes local high school students to the world of advanced manufacturing through a semester-long, for-credit course. Local students are bused to our state-of-the-art facilities three times each week and taught by our tooling, automation, and molding professionals. The class begins with basic business and manufacturing practices before progressing through the entire manufacturing process, including material selection, pricing, mold design and manufacture, injection molding, and quality.

Our program includes actual interaction with advanced technologies instead of just classroom instruction. Students also visit a local hospital to see our products used by healthcare professionals and learn about the ramifications of a device not being manufactured to the highest quality. The School of Tech has grown in popularity each semester, and our most recent class took the program a step further by designing, manufacturing, and selling a product at their school. This real-life process helps the students understand everything from concept through production, including the satisfaction of bringing a product to market.

In partnership with Vermont Technical College, we are proud to offer generous scholarship/internship packages to students pursuing an Associate’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology, including a paid summer internship at our Bethel, VT headquarters. By utilizing this dual program, it is possible for students to completely cover the tuition cost of their degree. Not only are we helping to pay for their education, but we are also providing students with real-life work experiences, resulting in a job upon graduation. For students who may not have thought college and a rewarding career path were financially attainable, this can be life-changing.

Nolato Contour provides an annual scholarship opportunity to first or second year UW Stout Plastic Engineering students.  The intention of this scholarship is to promote focus on the region’s exceptional opportunities in the field of plastics engineering.  

Whether you are a student on winter break from college, or a high school student on summer break, Nolato Contour and Nolato GW offers paid seasonal job opportunities for those students interested in picking up work during their school’s seasonal breaks.