WiM Colorado | Trailblazing Women in Manufacturing: A Panel Discussion

Join WiM Colorado for

Trailblazing Women in Manufacturing: A Panel Discussion

Date:
Thursday, May 8, 2025    

Time:
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. MT

Cost to Attend:
WiM Members = $25
Nonmembers = $35
Students = $0

Location:
Metropolitan State University - St Cajetan's
Auraria Campus 1
01 Lawrence Way
Denver, CO 80204 

Please join us for a panel discussion with 5 trailblazing women representing diverse careers in manufacturing. During this event you will hear their stories and be able to ask them questions about the opportunities and challenges they have encountered during their exciting careers in Manufacturing. 

Panelists:

Optional Activity (Registration Required):

Aerospace & Engineering Sciences Building and Advanced Manufacturing Labs Tour
Led by the Martin Lockheed Endowed Director, Mark Yoss, you have the opportunity to tour the Aerospace & Engineering Sciences Building including the Lockheed Martin Additive Manufacturing Lab and the Advanced Manufacturing Lab, as well as Computer Sciences, Industrial Design, and Engineering spaces. The state-of-the-art, LEED certified building was the first MSU Denver construction financed through public, private, and philanthropic partnership.

Tour will start at 3:15pm at the East Entrance of the Aerospace & Engineering Sciences Building.

Aerospace & Engineering Sciences Building
1449 7th Street, Denver, 80204
The AES Building is the 4-story building at the corner of 7th Street and Auraria Pkwy.

About Metropolitan State University - St Cajetan's

Admire St. Cajetan’s on the Auraria Campus, a visual reminder of the central role of church in the Hispanic neighborhood that once surrounded this landmark. St. Cajetan’s was constructed in 1925 to serve as a church in the Auraria neighborhood. Now a Denver landmark, the brick and stone former church combines mission-style and Spanish Colonial architecture with twin bell towers and elegant curvilinear parapets. The building now serves as a vibrant event space on the Auraria Campus. The space can accommodate many types of events, such as celebrations, lectures, trainings and weddings.

History
By the early 1920s, the ethnic nature of Auraria shifted from a mix of peoples of Central and Eastern European origin to a distinctly Hispanic neighborhood. Employed in various industries, these new residents of Auraria were variously from long-established Hispanic communities in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico or relatively recent arrivals from Mexico. Householder directories of the 1920s through the 1960s reveal a preponderance of Hispanic surnames, with a smattering of households reminiscent of earlier residents and durable connections to a place and its charms. St. Cajetan’s Catholic Church, Auraria’s Hispanic community’s spiritual and cultural heart, was constructed in 1926 at the corner of Lawrence and Ninth. The lives of the Spanish-speaking peoples of Auraria revolved around their church. This was the place where they met weekly, made friends, and watched their children grow. It was the weekly social. St. Cajetan’s became a central institution in the Hispanic community of West Denver. In 1937 the parish opened a school and operated a health clinic and a credit union. Starting in 1961, it hosted an annual summer street fair in honor of St. Cajetan. The congregation at St. Cajetan was the first Hispanic Catholic parish in Denver.

Click here to access a map of the campus.

We can't wait to see you there!