Boston public television station WGBH was here last week to film a show about the program, a partnership between Clark State Community College, Central State University and Avetech.
The company is involved in esoteric things like computer-modeling jet engines.
That ought to help Springfield rethink its self-image as a factory town.
When kids here were growing up in the last century, many of them planned to take a place on the line at one of the many manufacturing plants.
Few students should plan on that now.
Rather they should be looking toward the future and the science and technology jobs that will offer them a living wage.
Avetech is giving area students a chance to rub shoulders with people using knowledge to solve real-world problems.
That takes a lot of the dryness out of math and science classes.
In some ways, its like an old-fashioned apprenticeship, where work and theory merge.
It offers students role models and lets them see what people actually do with everything that they learned in school.
It also puts students in a workplace that can help them visualize possibilities like no classroom can.
Very few communities in Ohio can point to a place like Avetech, a company that is thoughtful enough to consider good students one of its products.