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May 13, 2025 | Jonathan Stefonek PORTAGE, Wis. – Last Thursday Poynette High School students took over Madison College’s Portage Campus, turning classrooms and offices into the divisions of a one-day-only manufacturing business. The Mini Manufacturing World, presented by Madison College in partnership with the Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin, aims at giving students a sense of manufacturing, beyond just the factory floor, but the process from front to b

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