Companiesfor Higher Education

Manufacturing jobs used to conjure visions of smoke-filled rooms and oiled floors with workers manually operating machines that drilled holes, cut materials and welded joints. Those images are quickly becoming nonexistent in today's high-tech world.

MAG, a global leader in machining equipment with one of three main U.S. plants in Hebron and its North American headquarters in Erlanger, recognized that necessity early, working with Gateway Community and Technical College to design and implement an apprenticeship program which is about to graduate its first students.

Seeing a void in online training products specifically designed for schools, Brian Taylor and partner Greg Estep, with backgrounds in online publishing and information technology, started Scenario Learning and its SafeSchools suite of online training courses in 2001. The firm has grown to serve 1,500 districts in all 50 states and internationally and employment has grown to 12 people.