• Engraving Acrylic for Mother’s Day

    by  • May 15, 2013 • 0 Comments

    Life is hard when you are a 7th Grader who doesn’t have a present for Mother’s Day.  However, have no fear…ShopBot to the rescue! The Set-up:  A student at my school…let’s call him “D”…approached me at the end of the day and told me that he wanted to make something nice for his Mom for Mother’s...

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    Featured 100kSchools Teacher: Jack Chen, Sewanhaka High School

    by  • February 26, 2013

    Once again, manufacturing history is being made at Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park, New York.  Back in the 1940s, Sewanhaka helped train young men and women as technicians for the aircraft industry on Long Island and also to meet post-war industrial needs.  Today, high school students here are developing the skills required in...

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    School News – Future Woodworkers of America

    by  • January 8, 2013

    In the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, NV, ShopBot CNCs help teachers link woodworking to computer technologies and design, and provide a new (digital) way of producing project parts.
    American Woodworker (April/May 2010) A visit with Las Vegas area high school woodworking teachers. I recently had the opportunity to tour a few Las Vegas,...

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