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Benefits expected to come with new technology for metal shop
Out with the old. In with the new.
Clearwater is no longer a single-industry, sawmill town and so students at Clearwater Secondary School should be taught skills more in keeping with the high technology of the future.
“We want to purchase new technology for the metal shop - a CNC plasma cutting table,” said Jim Zsednai, trades instructor at the school. “CNC stands for computer numerically controlled. No other school in the school district has this technology.”
Plasma cutting makes use of electric current and a jet of inert gas or air to cut metal. It is generally faster and more controllable than the older, oxy-acetylene cutting technology.
The school already has a plasma cutter. Adding a computer to control it would allow students to create complex signs and parts, Zsednai said. The benefits would not be limited to just those in metalworking class. Students studying computer science would learn skills useful in making objects.
Total cost of the project will be $16,000 - $18,000. Adding a second, similar device for use in the woodworking shop would add about the same amount again.
“Jim has been after this machine for as long as I’ve known him. He’s been scrounging and saving and putting it in his piggy bank,” said CSS principal Alan Stel. “When this decision was made, he danced a little jig.”
To help pay for the device, Clearwater Educational Woodlot Society has agreed to sell its sawmill and forklift.
The society was set up in the mid-1980s to operate an educational woodlot near Clearwater. Later the focus shifted to running a small sawmill, but the emphasis was always on the forest industry.
Many successful loggers and contractors (including several members of the society’s board) went through the programs sponsored by the society but the feeling now is that it’s time to move on, Zsednai said.
Other possible sources of funding being approached include North Thompson Community Foundation, Vancouver Foundation, Wells Gray Community Forest and industry.
Zsednai is also selling flowers. Order forms for planters, hanging baskets and boxes of geraniums, petunias and marigolds have been dropped off at various locations in town.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_thompson_nicola/clearwatertimes/business/90400309.html
Clearwater is no longer a single-industry, sawmill town and so students at Clearwater Secondary School should be taught skills more in keeping with the high technology of the future.
“We want to purchase new technology for the metal shop - a CNC plasma cutting table,” said Jim Zsednai, trades instructor at the school. “CNC stands for computer numerically controlled. No other school in the school district has this technology.”
Plasma cutting makes use of electric current and a jet of inert gas or air to cut metal. It is generally faster and more controllable than the older, oxy-acetylene cutting technology.
The school already has a plasma cutter. Adding a computer to control it would allow students to create complex signs and parts, Zsednai said. The benefits would not be limited to just those in metalworking class. Students studying computer science would learn skills useful in making objects.
Total cost of the project will be $16,000 - $18,000. Adding a second, similar device for use in the woodworking shop would add about the same amount again.
“Jim has been after this machine for as long as I’ve known him. He’s been scrounging and saving and putting it in his piggy bank,” said CSS principal Alan Stel. “When this decision was made, he danced a little jig.”
To help pay for the device, Clearwater Educational Woodlot Society has agreed to sell its sawmill and forklift.
The society was set up in the mid-1980s to operate an educational woodlot near Clearwater. Later the focus shifted to running a small sawmill, but the emphasis was always on the forest industry.
Many successful loggers and contractors (including several members of the society’s board) went through the programs sponsored by the society but the feeling now is that it’s time to move on, Zsednai said.
Other possible sources of funding being approached include North Thompson Community Foundation, Vancouver Foundation, Wells Gray Community Forest and industry.
Zsednai is also selling flowers. Order forms for planters, hanging baskets and boxes of geraniums, petunias and marigolds have been dropped off at various locations in town.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_thompson_nicola/clearwatertimes/business/90400309.html
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