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FORBES | 2017 AMERICA'S BEST LARGE EMPLOYERS SKILLSUSA WINNERS The nation's top technical students competing in the collision repair and automotive refinishing categories were honored at the 2017 SkillsUSA Championships, recently held in Louisville. In the high school category, both Gold Award winners came from the same school, Vanguard-Sentinel CTC, Tiffin, Ohio: Dylan Wertz (pictured left) for automotive refinishing and Alan Zimmerman (pictured right) for collision repair. College Gold Award honorees include Dylan Ahrndt, auto refinishing, Ridgewater College, Willmar, Minn. and Joel Hartstack, collision repair, Southwestern Community College, Creston, Iowa. SkillsUSA serves more than 300,000 high school, middle school and college students, preparing them for careers in trade, technical and skilled service occupations. PPG has long been involved with the nonprofit organization, primarily in the automotive segment of the national championships, and is a major sponsor of the event. PPG DONATES MILLIONS FOR NEW SCIENCE PAVILION PPG and the PPG Foundation recently contributed $7.5 million to the Carnegie Science Center of Pittsburgh, earmarked for a new building that will be named the PPG Science Pavilion. Scheduled for completion in 2018, the PPG Science Pavilion will house science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning labs; a 14,000-square-foot exhibitions gallery for large touring exhibitions; PointView Hall, a conference and event space overlooking the city skyline; and new, expanded STEM education programs. With nine classrooms, including a wet lab, the PPG Science Pavilion will enable the Carnegie Science Center to offer more programs for children and adults, such as day camps for students and professional-development programs for teachers. FORBES NAMES AMERICA'S BEST LARGE EMPLOYERS Forbes magazine has named PPG among America's Best Large Employers for 2017. This is the second consecutive year Forbes has recognized PPG among the 500 most highly regarded employers in America, based on independent research findings. Forbes partnered with research firm Statista, which surveyed about 30,000 American workers, to compile the list of the best large employers (those with more than 5,000 employees) in America. Respondents were asked, on a scale of zero to 10, how likely they would be to recommend their own employers, or other companies, to friends or family. TEAM PPG 5