Warren Easton Senior High School JobShadows at Mpress

Students from Warren Easton Senior High School boarded a bus bound for work-readiness on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008.  The students from Ms. McLendon and Ms. Robert's class visited Mpress to learn about jobs available in the printing industry as well as the education, skills and attitude they will need to succeed.  JAGNO board member and owner of Mpress, Ash Abbott began the day's activities by introducing himself, Mpress and the printing industry.  Students who were wondering how one goes from being an unsure 17 year old kid to the owner of an $8 million dollar a year company learned from Ash that it takes hard work and passion.  Students also learned about how all printing results from combining the three primary colors: cyan, magenta and yellow, and afterwards, they were given a color blindness test.  Following Ash's introductory activities, students went on a tour of the printing press seeing printing machines that were as big as their classroom and bigger!  Students also saw embossing machines, industrial paper cutters, massive mail sorting machines - in two words, Cool Stuff!  After the tour, students broke into small groups to shadow Mpress employees and learn in-depth skills about a particular function of a printing press.

According to Ms. McLendon, "The students found the job shadow experience to be educational as well as rewarding.  This event allowed our students to partake of a unique experience that transcended their classroom walls into a real workplace setting.  After returning, I heard some of the students tell other students what a treat it was to be able to participate in such an event."

More information on JA JobShadow and other high school programs

Ash Abbott introduces students to printing	Introduction to printing
The large format press	Learning about printing using primary colors
A tour group	Learning about embossing
Touring the mail room	Marciel shadows the Accountant
Marlon and Garrett see Printing Plates	Dalvin in Purchasing
Rachel in Data Prep	Honorelle and Desmond see the Folder Machine
Britany and Delisha discover Saddle Stitching	Terrion and Marella learn about Bindery
Brandi and Myeisha in the Mailroom	Christina, Anjel and Shalamar in the Mailroom
Nicole, Sierra and Darrin operate the Digital Press	Hadasha and Sharonlynn learn Graphics
Hadasha and Sharonlynn learn Graphics	Rachel in Data Prep
Hung learns E-Commerce	Honorelle and Desmond see the Folder Machine
Assembling a shopping catalog	Assembling a shopping catalog
Christina, Anjel and Shalamar in the Mailroom	Brandi and Myeisha in the Mailroom
Ash addresses the students at lunch	Ash addresses the students at lunch