The Indiana Workforce Summit is geared toward policy makers and employers struggling to create a talent pipeline.

Companies have celebrated Manufacturing Day since 2012 as a way to address the misconceptions about manufacturing jobs being dirty or tedious.

Organizers hope the program will help connect students with companies that say they cant find enough skilled workers.

The Job Spark career fair had everything from fire trucks and military Humvees to screech owls and robotic surgery equipment at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.

The RV industry is celebrating a grand opening of its newest facility in Elkhart Monday. The RV Technical Institute will help reduce a shortage of workers who repair recreational vehicles.

In the past five years, the Indiana Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program trained about 200 clinicians and 10,000 patients, family members and caregivers.

This is the second job training program Indianapolis-based LIFT academy has created and it will launch later this month.

Most of the jobs are located in Marion County and the fastest growing sector was in advanced vehicles. It saw 18 percent more jobs last year than the year before.

Communities in southeast Indiana will receive more than $4.5 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to get recovering opioid users back into the workforce.

Students from 11 school districts attended the annual Partnership Day at Area 31 Career Center to meet representatives from companies, trade groups, technical colleges and the military.