Bring Your Kids to Work Day 2024! 

On Wednesday, May 1st Meyer Tool participated in the nationwide Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. We value the chance to spend time with our next generation, sharing what it takes to “build the impossible.” Our annual event provides the opportunity to create an educational experience beyond the classroom! This year, the day included an assembly challenge, an arts and crafts activity, a shop tour with exposure to multiple manufacturing processes, and a special cryogenic show designed to amaze both children and adults.

​“Bring Your Kids to Work Day” as it’s called at Meyer Tool, consists of lots of activities that provide time for our kids ages 8 - 14 to bond with parents while learning n a fun way. The kids and their adults start our day with breakfast (the most important meal) and Icebreaker Bingo where we all learn a little something about everyone in the room that even close co-workers may not already know. Then, our project engineer, Nick Marr, offers a blueprint reading session where our kids gain a bit of exposure in understanding blueprints. We move on to small group, hands-on tours of the shop including a stop in the assembly department to witness a vacuum demonstration and the kids learn how to detect a leak in a weld; time in the machine shop where they start a program, watch our CNC lathe in action and blow chips off, just as a machinist would; and time in the weld shop where they get to watch a welder in action through a special protective screen. Every year there’s a different craft, this year it was painting flower pots, and our guests are highly encouraged to think of their mother and the upcoming mother’s day as they create. Lunch with parents and time for Mad-Libs and hang man are standard favorites. And of course, the highlight of the day is the cryo show, featuring our own Eric Cunningham and silly liquid nitrogen tricks. In the highly anticipated show finale, all the kids get to smash some frozen fruit into smithereens, wearing their personal protective equipment, of course. New employees get to enjoy this as well, the show, not necessarily smashing fruit, as newcomers to the Meyer Tool family crowd behind the kids to view the show for their first time.

​A special thank you goes out to Beth Laurin-Petrik and Diane Sheehan for planning and making the day a memorable experience for the kids.