MEDP Event Calendar:

Held annually in October in conjunction with National Manufacturing Day, MEDP celebrates the makers of our community at an annual award ceremony.

Over one hundred community members attend each year to honor these people, companies and organizations that continue to collaborate and contribute to the economic vitality of our community.

2018 MEDP Leveling up on Innovation Annual Awards Event

2017 Forging the Economic Future Together Awards Event
2017 Award Winners
2016 McMinnville | MADE - MEDP's 10th Anniversary and Awards Event

MEDP established new programming in 2017 to support and help answer our traded sector business needs.

Kicking off with a four part series in the spring of 2017: NEXT: Strategic Solutions, covered topics from LEAN manufacturing to recruiting and retaining smart talent with Gary Conner, OMEP and Shawn Busse, Kinesis, Inc. New programming focused on Making Your Money Work for You debuted in 2018 and programming plans for 2019 include Talent Innovation.

MEDP has coordinated tours of our local manufacturing businesses throughout the years in conjunction with National Manufacturing Day for government officials, business leaders, college and educational entities.

In order to expand our reach, we established tour opportunities that take place through the year rather than on a single day. 

Educational Tours: MEDP partnered with the McMinnville School District to hold six tours of three local manufacturing businesses for Middle School and High School Students in the spring of 2017.  Plans are underway to expand this program to reach even more K-12 students in 2018.

VIP Tours: Opportunities exist throughout the year just by connecting with the MEDP Office. MEDP Investors, Government Officials and Business Leaders participate in these opportunities on a regular basis to connect, collaborate, and assist local businesses with challenges and opportunities.

MEDP MFG Day Tours

In order to enhance and support MEDP's efforts to foster living wage job growth under our Tech Terroir campaign: Growing Technology in Oregon's Wine Country, we established a networking event for local and regional technology related companies and individuals in the summer of 2017.

We expanded on this educational and networking programming in 2018 with partnering with Linfield College and creating The Humanity of Technology speaker panel with the addition of a Tech Bytes networking event following. We held a Summer Tech Bytes & Tour at Ferrum Technology in August of 2018 as well.

2017 Tech Bytes Kick-Off

MEDP's McMinnville WORKS Internship Program is celebrating it's 6th year of success 'growing our own' workforce.

Each summer this program offers Professional Development Sessions to the participating interns. Interns not only get real world work experience at their place of business, but also get to grow and expand their knowledge base with sessions topics from marketing yourself, to finance, to project management and more.

McMinnville WORKS Internship Program Professional Development Seminars

MEDP established EDU Tours in partnership with the McMinnville School District in the spring of 2017 in an effort to educate our emerging workforce about the local career opportunities and wide variety of industries in their own backyard.

Plans are underway to expand this program to reach even more K-12 students through Industry in The Classroom programming, Job Shadow, Mock Interviews and more .

Manufacturing Educational Tours