By Michael Berliner, January 8th, 2013 Teaching STEM in upstate N.Y. with help of ShopBot
Ed Wall has been a Technology teacher for more than a quarter of a century. As any veteran teacher will tell you, the key to success is to make the learning process fun! That’s exactly what Ed has been doing with his students in Elmira, New York. Ed teaches a STEM curriculum including classes in ACE SolidWorks, Drawing and Design for Production, Production & Construction Systems, Manufacturing Systems and Computer Integrated Manufacturing. And his teaching tool of choice is ShopBot! …
Continue reading >>> Ed Wall Brings STEM Curriculum to Life with ShopBot Tools
By Michael Berliner, January 8th, 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, Nevada area high school woodshops to talked shop with the teachers and some of the students. …
Continue reading >>> School News – Future Woodworkers of America
By Michael Berliner, January 8th, 2013 
Students Learn Digital Fabrication at Bayfront Maritime Center
May 28, 2011 The new ShopBot CNC digital fabrication equipment is up and running with Erie, PA, high school students in the Bayfront Maritime Center Boatshop, a community-based educational center. These kids are learning valuable 21st century workplace skills. First they design a project using a Computer Aided Design (CAD) program. This data is then converted into a Computer Numeric Control (CNC) toolpath to run the digital fabrication machine. …
Continue reading >>> Students Operating CNC Digital Fabrication Equipment in Boatshop
By Michael Berliner, January 8th, 2013 
The first-ever Campo de ShopBot: Sarah Burns’ diary of her trip to Guatemala
August, 2012. The first-ever South American Campo de ShopBot was held in Guatemala. ShopBot’s Chris Burns and his 15-year-old daughter Sarah were on hand to lead seminars and teach ShopBot skills to the young residents of a local orphanage. Sarah Burns’ diary of her trip begins, “In Central and South America, a girl’s 15th birthday is the biggest day of her life. It marks her coming into womanhood. For me, it was also a coming of age as a ShopBotter. …
Continue reading >>> My ShopBot Quinceanera
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