Career Outing: Wi-Tronix

Last Friday, the College Readiness 8th grade scholars and I were treated to a fantastic career visit to the electronics designer, Wi-Tronix in Bolingbrook.

(As a bit of background, a unique feature of this program for the 8th graders is a weekly outing on Friday afternoons. These outings revolve around 4 "C's": College, Career, Culture, and Community Service.)

Wi-Tronix "provides products and services to wirelessly monitor high-value mobile assets such as locomotives, industrial equipment and marine vessels." During our visit, our scholars were treated to a behind-the-scenes tour and information session, highlighting career options from engineering to manufacturing available in the field of electronics. Presentations were made by company president, Larry Jordan and several of his staff.

This outing provided many of the scholars with their first glimpses into careers in engineering and the college training needed to work in this type of field.

Wi-Tronix not only generously opened their doors to our scholars for the afternoon, they also ended our afternoon together by providing pizza and Wi-Tronix baseball caps for our group.

The 8th graders enjoyed the opportunity. I've already been asked by one of the scholars whether we would get to visit Wi-Tronix again. Many thanks to the generous folks at Wi-Tronix for sharing their time and talent with us!


We are always looking for additional college and career outing opportunities. If you or someone you know would be willing to host us on a Friday afternoon, please contact me at (773)854-1613.