Freebird01
Marksman
Since I'm pretty new to this board, I would to share something I'm pretty proud of...
I work for IPFW (Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne) here in Fort Wayne.
My colleague and I started a summer camp through our outreach department that targets 9th-12th graders to come get some experience using manual machine tools and hear some stories from active and retired engineers about mechanical engineering.
For our first time through we had 6 students. We all had a great time. They got to use a lathe,mill,drill press, band saw and some hand tools. It was 5 half days. They had a guest speaker every day.
Chad Longstreth our Haas salesman donated some shirts and hats, Powell Tool Supply donated some tooling, and metals supermarket donated some of the material we used to create a small wobbler air motor.
You can check out a video of the motor I built as an example here if you have never seen one.
https://youtu.be/6mP8EEPFayQ
The boys all did great and I'm excited to do it again next year.
I've said it a few times...if us as young adults (I'm 36) don't step up and teach these kids that hard work and working with your hands is ok then who will?
I work for IPFW (Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne) here in Fort Wayne.
My colleague and I started a summer camp through our outreach department that targets 9th-12th graders to come get some experience using manual machine tools and hear some stories from active and retired engineers about mechanical engineering.
For our first time through we had 6 students. We all had a great time. They got to use a lathe,mill,drill press, band saw and some hand tools. It was 5 half days. They had a guest speaker every day.
Chad Longstreth our Haas salesman donated some shirts and hats, Powell Tool Supply donated some tooling, and metals supermarket donated some of the material we used to create a small wobbler air motor.
You can check out a video of the motor I built as an example here if you have never seen one.
https://youtu.be/6mP8EEPFayQ
The boys all did great and I'm excited to do it again next year.
I've said it a few times...if us as young adults (I'm 36) don't step up and teach these kids that hard work and working with your hands is ok then who will?