Highlights Archive

Women in Craft Brewing Careers

Meet three women that got into the craft brewing industry through a variety of career pathways.

Pursing Your Field of Interest: Co-Head Brewer, Jen Meyers had a passion to enter the brewing industry that was met with resistance. She found by continuing in her efforts she could prove her worth and be known for her skill. More and more women are entering the sector which is encouraging.

Pursuing an Interest to Enter A Field: Women in Craft Brewing

Transitioning From the Wine Industry To Craft Brewing: Assistant Brewer Ashley McCaffrey pushes back against the idea that women aren’t in every area of the brewing industry. She finds them in every area of the industry and sees them doing incredible work. She worked in wine industry after getting her degree at Finger Lakes Community College in Vitaculture and Wine Technology and had a few years experience. She transitioned to craft brewing because the work was less seasonal in nature.

Transitioning from the Wine Industry to Craft Brewing Careers

Shadowing and Networking for a Career Change: Brewer Nikki Forster describes how shadowing a friend and networking in the business led her to a career change to the craft brewing industry.

Shadowing and Networking for a Career Change

Training for a Machining Career in High School

Machining crosses many career sectors. You can train in and explore this field while you are still in high school.

Machining is in our everyday lives through the products we use. Many career sectors require machining. High school students can train in this field through career technical education classes, training, and co-op internships to explore their interests.

Training for an HVAC Career in High School

You can train for an HVAC career while still in high school.

HVAC (Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning) career training can begin in high school through career technical education. The program allows training while in high school, and gaining work experience through internships and co-ops. You can also get training through a union program after high school.

Related HVAC Careers on Career Coach

Training as an Electrician in High School

You can train to become an electrician while you are still in high school.

Learning the electrical trade can begin in high school through career technical education. The program allows training while in high school, and gaining real hands-on work experience. Students can work directly out of high school. They can also continue their education to become a master electrician in the future.

Related Careers: Construction

Training as an Automotive Technician in High School

Automotive technician training can begin in high school through a career technical education.

The BOCES program allows training while in high school, and gaining work experience. Some students get job offers while in training to allow them to enter the field directly out of high school.

Warrior in Two Worlds On-Demand

Ely Parker was a Seneca chief, a legal scholar, an engineer, a Civil War hero, and a Cabinet-level commissioner — all by the age of 40. At first glance, his story appears to be one of success and triumph.

Yet Parker died in poverty far from the land of his birth. In later life he was estranged from his people and dismissed by political leaders he once considered friends. Today, American history remembers him as a mere footnote, and inside the Seneca community, he is a controversial figure — considered a hero by some, branded a traitor by others.

The PBS documentary Warrior in Two Worlds was produced by WXXI Public Broadcasting Council in Rochester, New York, in collaboration with the Rochester Museum & Science Center in 2004 . The film is narrated by Native American actor Wes Studi, who is set to become the first Native American to win an Oscar February 2020. The program is also a co-presentation with Native American Public Telecommunications. Major funding for this site was provided by the Lennox Foundation of Dallas, Texas.

Safe Haven On-Demand

In 1944, 982 refugees from 18 European countries were brought to the United States as guests of President Franklin Roosevelt.

FDR agreed to admit this small token group in lieu of a much larger plan to create many safe havens all over the country and bring in possibly hundreds of thousands of refugees. The camp was Fort Ontario Army Camp in Oswego, NY. Through interviews with former refugees and archival footage, Safe Haven, tells the story of America’s only refugee shelter for Holocaust victims. Robert Clary, a former refugee, hosts.

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of this WXXI production in 2017, Safe Haven was written and produced by Paul Lewis. In 1987 the documentary received a Peabody Award, with jurors congratulating the production team for “making a particularly timely statement about the undercurrent of racism and bigotry which afflict all governments. “Paul and other special guests were in studio before and after the documentary with Need to Know host Hélène Biandudi Hofer to talk about the production and share personal stories about working on the film. See the Need to Know special on the documentary to learn more. Listen the Connections podcast 4/27/17 about the documentary.

RIT Big Shot: Painting with Light On-Demand

Big Shot took place at the National Museum of Play at The Strong and was documented by WXXI. Photographed on the evening of May 5, 2011, more than 1,000 volunteers convened at the museum and used flash lights to “paint the building with light” as photographers from RIT’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences captured the scene using an open shutter and the dramatic technique of timed exposure.