Students need skills that are marketable on the job scene, and that's what this U.P. class is getting in a piece from Bridge Michigan.
Excerpt: Doug Elliott’s class at Ishpeming’s Westwood High School goes way beyond the focus of many a shop class: making wooden birdhouses, shelves and such.
Elliott’s students get into computer numerical control and sensors.
Entitled “Survival in an Electrical World,” the class covers the basics and far more. An advanced class, for example, gets more into the heavy machinery that fills Elliott’s spacious classroom.
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Source: Bridge Michigan
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