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We love reading all the creative captions that come through for our monthly contest! Check out May's winner. 😂

Every month we post a comic and ask our audience to send in caption ideas. The winner even gets a prize! Do you want to send over some ideas? Check out June's contest below. ⤵️

https://www.automation.com/article/otto-mation-comic-caption-contest-june-2026

Across today’s rapidly shifting manufacturing and engineering landscape, one challenge stands out: The growing need for graduates who not only understand technology but can also apply it, writes Tom Majewksi, who leads Workforce Development initiatives at Mitsubishi Electric.

Kettering University, a private, STEM-focused institution in Flint, Mich., known for its century-old model of experiential learning, recently set out to give students a deeper, real-time experience with modern automation systems in their lab work.

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