FEATURE-US teens learn robotics, windmills as factories lack
skilled workers  Wed Feb 8, 2012 4:23pm EST  * Some 600,000
factory jobs going unfilled  * Worker shortages seen as Baby
Boomers retire  * Building a machine to make s'mores  By Scott
Malone  MILWAUKEE, Feb. 8 (Reuters) - At the Escuela Vieau
School in downtown Milwaukee, seventh-grader Camila Garcia was
building a model wind turbine in a class intended to spark
interest in engineering.  "At first, I thought, 'This is for
boys, it's not for me. I can't do it,'" the 13-year-old
recalled. "Now I see that I can do it and that it's fun."  Her
nascent interest in both learning math as well as the skills to
apply it -- measuring, designing and assembly -- is a hopeful
sign for manufacturers facing an unfamiliar problem as the
country grapples with high unemployment.  After years of cutting
workforces, executives complain they cannot find enough people
with the skills needed to thrive in modern factories. Some
600,000 skilled manufacturing positions are un