{"id":147751,"date":"2026-03-25T06:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147751\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:51:14","slug":"through-contest-middle-schoolers-learn-show-whats-so-cool-about-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147751\/","title":{"rendered":"Through contest, middle schoolers learn, show \u2018What\u2019s So Cool About Manufacturing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">SHENANDOAH \u2013 Local middle schoolers and businesses once again are taking part in the annual What\u2019s So Cool About Manufacturing video contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The contest is put on by the Manufacturers Resource Center and draws 33 middle school teams from across Berks and Schuylkill counties, including Shenandoah Valley, Mahanoy Area, and North Schuylkill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Local businesses, like Mrs. T\u2019s Pierogies here in town and Blaschak Anthracite, invited the teams in to film their entry. A team from D.H.H. Lengel Middle School in Pottsville visited the Mrs. T\u2019s plant on the east end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Shenandoah Valley visited Hexcel Corporation near Saint Clair while Mahanoy Area stopped by Ashland Technologies, Inc., and North Schuylkill visited EMD Electronics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The teams are competing for various judged awards and a Viewers\u2019 Choice Award. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatssocool.org\/contests\/berks-schuylkill\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Voting opened for the latter at midnight.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        About Author<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/shensentinel.com\/news\/author\/shensentinel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774421474_990_2e56b425378a2337bdf45040b61827f98489d77c537a651218b45abb8a91dad5.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-150 photo\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/shensentinel.com\/news\/author\/shensentinel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Shenandoah Sentinel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Shenandoah Sentinel is northern Schuylkill County\u2019s news source, covering news and sports in and around Shenandoah, Ashland, Mahanoy City, Frackville, Nuremberg, and the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tContinue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHENANDOAH \u2013 Local middle schoolers and businesses once again are taking part in the annual What\u2019s So Cool&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-147751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}