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Tech Directions
The Race Is Not Always To The Swiftest
January 2008
Nathan Hale-Ray High School in East Haddam, Connecticut, is a tiny four-year school with about 370 students. Conventional wisdom would tell us that not much could be done in the realm of technology education with the limited financial resources of such a small rural community. This school has proven otherwise.
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Manufacturing Engineering
Skills Champs Train on Peanut Butter
May 2007
A team of three students from the Orleans/Niagara BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services) Technical High School (Sanborn, NY) take first place honors in the National Skills USA Automated Manufacturing Technology Competition last year in Kansas City, MO.
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Tech Directions
The Battling 'Bots of Bloomsburg
January 2007
The industrial technology students of Bloomsburg Area High School come together to design and build a Battlebot robot.
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Moldmaking Technology 
Molding New Moldmakers
April 2007
Stepping into the Machine Tech suite at McCann is not unlike entering a busy machine shop in Anytown, USA—all the sights, sounds, and scents of metal being cut, ground, drilled, bored, chamfered, tapped and reamed—only here, the machine operators are students and the supervisors are teachers.
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Ties
Not Your Grandfather's Shop Course
March 2006
Science and technology courses at Glenbrook North High School (Northbrook, IL) in the suburbs of Chicago have become extremely popular over the past decade. During that time, numerous graduates have gone directly into manufacturing jobs. Even more students, almost 50 men and women, have advanced to pursue college degrees in engineering.
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Techniques
CNC Preparation Meets Manufacturing Opportunity
February 2006
Innovative programs at Cape Fear Community College target CNC training to meet diverse industry needs. A little over a year ago, the Machinig Technology program was struggling to survive. Today the college has added a third section to accommodate the 55 students currenlty enrolled and is looking forward to more growth in the upcoming years.
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Tech Directions
A Global Tech Ed View from Central Europe
December 2004
We often hear about the need to prepare American technical education students to compete in the burgeoning global manufacturing community. In addition, we hear experts say that learning certain programs and techniques can put our youth first in line for jobs where beating the offshore competition depends on production speed, product quality, and innovative process concepts.
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