Our Community
Since the inception of TouchPad Electronics, our team has been focused on education, training, and electronics industry awareness. We regularly sponsor FIRST robotics teams, sponsor FIRST events and commit time to be present within these organizations to create awareness.
Working with STEM students
We work with high schools state-wide providing volunteer advisory on technology, STEM, and leadership programs. We offer industry insights on the high school and college boards that we sit on.
We provide value in mentorship, guidance, and curriculum development to help complement the needs that we see being unmet, and those that are likely to have near-term demand out in the field. Our team offers guided, highly detailed tours, insight, and discussion surrounding our industry and the career opportunities available within TouchPad, and our industry in general.
Throughout each year of our existence, we have performed keynote addresses, motivational pitches and provided volunteer efforts to support the programs inside of the surrounding educational communities.
Mentoring at Colleges & Universities
We work with college deans, assistant deans and professors within several highly respected colleges and universities. Their overwhelming support of TouchPad enables us to provide internships for students, ted talks to student bodies, and “in curriculum”, hands-on labs for PCB fabrication and assembly which we fully fund and staff.
We routinely assist senior class projects by providing design and manufacturing services, getting students involved with manufacturing assemblies, and tours of our state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing facility.
School Spirit
Each year we divide our excess inventory and split it amongst the educational partners who need it, offering more than $100,000 in materials for students to use in their labs, on their senior projects, and for those that take on innovative solution projects throughout the school year, and while on summer break.
15+ Educational partnerships
- UW Milwaukee
- WCTC – Waukesha Area Technical College
- MATC – Milwaukee Area Technical College
- Marquette University
- MSOE
- Blackhawk Technical College
- Mukwonago HS
- Waterford HS
- Elkhorn HS
- Hartford HS
- Kettle Moraine HS
- Oak Creek – Franklin HS
- Cedarburg HS
- Two Rivers HS
- Edgewood HS
