Staunton Vice Mayor David Metz is planning to travel overseas to help open doors for educational and the economical development between Staunton and Hungary.

Last year, the mayor and students from a technical school in Dabas, Hungary visited Staunton and local colleges.

They learned how to succeed in attracting foreign investment and how to successfully produce students in their school system in order to create more jobs.

Metz will travel to Dabas on September 17 with a Staunton resolution stating that Staunton and Dabas are open to further exchanges.

Metz says, "They need to be able to provide an adequate work force, and I think they look to the United States as probably a good model for that. What you see at Blue Ridge or Massanutten Technical is something that I think they would like to model themselves on."

He hopes that eventually students can become involved in exchange programs to learn more about the technical world.