Program offers a two-week peek into Oregon’s high-tech manufacturing industry

Students of the Quick Start program at PCC Willow Creek learn how to work on the machines that create silicon chips at Intel.

HILLSBORO, Ore. — While the Portland metro area continues to grapple with long-term affects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a report released last week by the Portland Metro Chamber found that, from a jobs perspective, the area can now be considered fully recovered.

The challenge now for state officials and business leaders is to keep job growth going into the future — and major efforts to invest in Oregon’s “Silicon Forest” and a suitably prepared workforce are supposed to do just that.

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