Manufacturing Camp Day 2

July 29th, 2008 at 08:19pm Teresa Beach-Shelow

Five of the students were sitting in the parking lot waiting for camp to start this morning. Every young person is excited! The day starts with donuts, pop, juice and other assorted sugared snacks…they love a school environment where pop at 8 AM is okay! The first thing of the day was to watch a master machinist working on (3) R & D harmonicas. They will be made from brass, plastic and wood. The designer of these harmonicas usually makes them by hand (3) per day. He is interested in mass producing them. The Eigerlab and Techworks are participating in this project…anything can be made in Rockford.

The computer lab is the exciting next place. Each student goes through Solid Works to design what they will make the next two days. By lunchtime they are putting their design onto a flashdrive so that it can be printed out.
Lunch and learn was Glorialea Dixon from GE Osmonics. She told the kids to never apply for a job in shorts! And to look the interviewer in the eye—otherwise you may be a liar….real world advice!

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