The Woodward Academy has been teaching the manufacturing process for the past 37 years. Graduates of this program have gone on to success in many different areas of this industry. Now the program has become a resource for the entire Midwest.

The Academy is set up to teach people of every skill level from basic manual machining and blueprint reading to 2D and 3D CAD, CNC programming and advanced GD&T. Our students come from High Schools, Collage, local industries. We are also helping the unemployed gain marketable job skills. The Woodward Academy is a Rock Valley College Regional training Center and a Haas technology Center. We are setting up and open entry-open exit program to fit the needs of our clients and the community. Our program has one of the only manual machine labs in the area featuring mills, lathes, OD and surface grinders.

Though a training resource primarily, we are also a prototype and sub-contract machine shop as well. As the manufacturing industry grows in the area, we are well positioned to provide many different services and to grow into a training leader.