STEM Manufacturing
At Third Wave Systems, citizens work in STEM! They jump into hands-on projects, using real tools and cool tech. With kid-safe cutting tools, special templates, and equipment like calipers, citizens create giant cardboard signs that help other JA BizTown businesses stand out. It’s all about precision, problem solving, and thinking like an engineer!
You may enjoy working here if you like:
- Math
- Machines
- Working with Your Hands
- Technology
- Sales
Explore Real Life Careers at Third Wave Systems
- Obtains bank loan
- Supervises employees and oversees business operations
- Signs paychecks
- Meets with other businesses to purchase insurance, renewable energy, and health insurance
- Helps other employees with their work, and stands in for them on their breaks
- Inputs and submits business loan to the bank
- Creates and prints paychecks
- Signs paychecks if CEO is not available
- Pays online bills sent to business
- Monitors money coming into the business
- Deposits money from sales to bank
- Works with cutting tools at to design and cut large cardboard pieces to create and assemble signs and other products.
- Uses software and technology to design products.
- Talks to business customers to make sure product orders match their instructions.
- Sets prices for products
- Sets up Point-of-Sale (cash register) and display area
- Greets customers & accepts payment from sales
- Assists customers in a game of skill, where customers guide a peg through an electric maze without touching the sides.
- Tests/measures products during manufacturing to make sure there are no defects or flaws.
- Use manufacturing tools to design and assemble signs and other products.
- Works with the Sales Manager to assist customers in a game of skill, where customers guide a peg through an electric maze without touching the sides.