Literacy + Manufacturing (Lit Man)
Lit Man reaches 45 3rd grade classrooms and almost 900 3rd grade students and their families each year.
2022-2023 Theme - Hancock County’s Chocolate history
Key concepts include organizing events by years, exploring the influence of industry on daily life in a community, and understanding the role of producers and markets.
2. Classroom Lesson: Millstream Career Center students partnered with the Golden Apple Academy in Hancock County to create a video showcasing Dietsch Brothers’ chocolate-making process.
2020-2021 Theme - Hancock County’s Supply Chain
Key mathematic concepts include multiplication, addition, subtraction, division, graphing, and ounces to cups conversions.
Key supply chain themes include buying goods to make goods, profit margins, business rules, value-added, employee appreciation, and goodwill.
2. Classroom Lesson: Students identify what supplies the kids in The Lemonade War needed for a successful stand, how their emotions affected their supply chain, and how in business there are costs and benefits to your decisions.
3. Supply Chain Videos: Classrooms screened four videos that highlighted Hancock County’s supply chain.
City Apparel brands uniforms for employees at other companies
McNaughton-McKay sends electrical parts to area companies to run their machines
Ohio Logistics stores and transports produced goods to stores
Molten makes parts for everyday cars to people can drive to the stores to pick up their goods
Program sponsors and Partners
This annual program exists because of generous sponsors throughout the Findlay-Hancock County community. Raise the Bar thanks sponsors for their investment in the development of youth, with a particular emphasis on developing the early workforce readiness skills of problem solving, critical thinking, and literacy.