Applications for the 2025 SMI Scholarship Program are open from Nov. 1, 2024, through Jan. 13, 2025, at 3 p.m. CT.
The scholarship program for regular and associate members and their families is available to all full-time employees of SMI member companies. The program supports company employees and their dependent children who plan to continue their education in college or vocational school programs.
Since the program started in 2011, SMI has helped nearly 200 students with awards of more than $400,000.
Administered by Scholarship America, this program offers up to five awards of $2,000 each from SMI. In addition, there are seven named awards ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 each.
Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of:
• Academic record
• Demonstrated leadership and participation in school and community activities
• Honors
• Work experience
• Statement of educational and career goals and objectives
• Unusual personal or family circumstances
• An online recommendation
To apply, or for further details on eligibility, awards and required documents, visit learnmore.scholarsapply.org/smi.
Applicants will be notified of decisions in late February, with payments processed in August.
Dudek & Bock provides an opportunity for employees to receive a discount on health insurance. The company already pays about 80% of the cost of your medical insurance. The Wellness Discount is an additional amount that Dudek & Bock will pay to recognize employees’ effort to stay healthy.
The criteria for a wellness discount is a visit, sometime during 2024, to your primary care physician. If covered by Dudek & Bock insurance, your spouse will also receive a discount: $10 per pay period for an employee, plus $10 per pay period for your husband or wife. You can pick up the form on the table outside the HR office, or download a copy of the flyer here:
Over the next few weeks, we will transition to using new timeclocks. Eventually we will no longer be using the paper cards. Three timeclocks have been installed close to each entrance to the building: near the back door by Grinding (across from the restrooms), outside the Shipping Office, and in the Maintenance Department. Every employee will be given a card that looks similar to our gate passes. You will need that card to clock in and out. It is very easy: Press a button on the reader and hold your card up to the reader for about 2 seconds.
Our Auto Department tested the system for two weeks, and we very much appreciate their help. Several additional departments will start using the clocks on Monday. Please be patient as we roll out the new system.
The company is making this change to reduce errors due to manual calculations (missed OT hours, etc.) and reduce the amount of time spent in manually entering the hours into the ADP payroll system.
The cards are sensitive to heat. If you put them in the washer & dryer, they will probably not work! It’s probably not a good idea to leave the card in your car when it is very hot. You should also not store the card next to another “HID” card as they can cancel each other. If your card stops working, please come to HR for a replacement.
Theresa Dudek Schneider’s family would like to invite employees who worked with Theresa to join them to celebrate her life on Tuesday, June 11, with a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 a.m. at St. Edna’s Parish, 2525 N. Arlington Heights Road in Arlington Heights and a Celebration of Life luncheon to follow. Employees who attend will be given a paid bereavement day. To request the day off, please let your supervisor know by 2:30 on Friday, so the family can make arrangements for the lunch.
There will also be a visitation on Monday, June 10, from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Gluekert Funeral Home, 1520 N. Arlington Heights Road in Arlington Heights.
