Promote Your Program Traditions

Have you had successes in your program that you would like students, parents and visitors to see when they come in your classroom or lab? One possible way is to create some type of display in your room for students or teams that have done well.

I started doing this at my last school when …

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Report from Teacher Ed Birkey on SkillsUSA

Hi, I’m Ed Birkey, a 23-year Technology Education teacher. For the past couple of years I’ve been working in the Fort Dodge (Iowa) Community School District. And now you’ll see me as a regular blog contributor here at 100kSchools.org. I’m looking forward to sharing my activities and even more, learning from other teachers about they’ve …

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Experiments in 2.5D/3D carving…

Whew! The end of the school year is here and I’m really looking forward to spending time this summer working with my ShopBot Desktop. Most of the projects that my students and I have done this spring have been based on simple 2D profiles and I’m anxious to start carving more sophisticated geometries in different …

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Featured Teacher: Jack Chen, Sewanhaka High School

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 our …

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