Guilford County Schools’ Post

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So earlier we told you about the Guilford County Schools Choice Showcase that's happening tomorrow night. Right now we have teacher William Reese with us. He teaches in the Advanced Manufacturing Academy at Smith High School, and he's here with several students. Jovon Benjamin right there, Carlos Brown here, and Maya Walker here. And you guys brought a 3D printing machine with you. Awesome, he said. So this is a great piece of technology that you teach them how to let their mind kind of expand and create all of this stuff, right? Exactly. So the students, if they can think about it, they can design it and then they can create it in three dimensions. And you created some stuff, right? So show us some of the things that you made. Right here we have a or. This is like the tractor transmission that we did in class. We had a real tractor and we took it apart and then slowly replicated a lot of the pieces inside it. So this right here is the the four gears, which is something we created. But the cool thing is you don't just put that say I want to make this tractor part. You guys have to design it. You have to do it on the computer, right? Yeah. Tell me about that process. Is it hard? It's pretty hard like first freshman year. Yeah, it was pretty hard until we. To understand it more, we basically used this app, it's called CAD Computer Aided Design and we make the part like we created in CAD and then it gets transferred to the 3D printer. Do you have to measure out each like cog, each little indentation and all that? We do have to measure out each part because when we put it into the app, like you said, called CAD Computer Aided Design, we have to know how much it is in order to actually arrange it, which is why we have this this thing called a dial caliper and our other instrument called a micrometer. And and you could use those kind of measure. And the great thing about it when you're when you're prototyping or something like that, you can make those changes in the computer. You don't have to keep grinding out parts and see if they work. There's no worry. It's just all about free thinking pretty much yes. And also on the best thing about it is even though these even though as humans we might mess up the cat the computer aided design will actually help us along the design process. Yeah there's a lot of math for us too. This is this is the next level of of manufacturing and I think that's that's what you're trying to show all of them. Is that this is this is a this is a key way to a job we're we're trying to prepare them for the world of work. Two of these students are in our GAP program and so they are out with industry here in Guilford County and we're trying to create a pipeline to get highly qualified workers into the workforce. So tell me what you guys want to do after graduation. Well honestly I want to become mechanical engineer but right now I'm in the the Gap program and with the company named. Sorry. And their whole thing is to manufacturing engineer metal pieces for companies like NASA, SpaceX, the military, all sorts of things. Ask. For me, the great thing about the GAP program is that there are a lot of different companies, whereas HVAC, he works with more machines. But for me, we're unique in the program because we're actually food production and make these things. They're basically like food pellets or chips. And yeah, that's cool. And what do you want to do after graduation? I want to be a chemical engineer. I really, I really enjoy chemistry. That's so great. I I tell you what this is exactly the stepping stone that you need for that kind of engineer or the technical career that you're talking about. It's great. It's kind of cool to see it all come together like that. One more thing. Yeah, then investing. But the guy program is so it's a four year program. So if you don't know what you want to do after school, you can do the four years that they give you because they basically sponsor you. And then after you finish it then you can go off on dev free and you can do what you want and you're all going to be the choice showcase so they can you can answer questions with parents. And students that come by, yes. We will be at the Choice Showcase tomorrow evening from 5:30 till eight. We hope that everybody comes out and sees these really exciting opportunities that are available to Guilford County students. Well, you got some great success stories here. Thank. Thank you all for coming in. We appreciate it. Thank you. Very wonderful to see what they're doing. Yeah. If you want to learn more about what Guilford County schools have to offer tomorrow, you can go to the Choice Showcase. It's happening from 5:30 to 8:00 at the Greensboro Coliseum. Special Event Center come with lots of questions and get them answered. You can go to get more information online at gcsnc.schoolmint.net.