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Careers in Manufacturing ? eh…..
Careers in Manufacturing? Did you know that 66% of parents and teachers do not recommend a career path in manufacturing even though there are 750,000 jobs available right now. Middle skill jobs are more than High school and less than … Continue reading
Time for MFG Tours
Our first MFG tour was to Exactech – Sarasota – Florida A medical implant manufacturer based in Gainesville, Florida. Exactech website It was founded by a group of surgeons from the University Of Florida ( Go Gators !) We … Continue reading
Year 5 Underway – Class of 2018
Well here we are , Year # 5 and on Track to hit the 100+ mark of machinist training set by Dr Todd Bowden the SCTI director back in 2013. Dr. Bowden is now the Sarasota county School superintendent … Continue reading
Teaching Machining in Today’s world
I am just completing my 4th year of full-time instruction in Precision and CNC Machining here at Suncoast Technical College – formerly know as Sarasota County Technical Institute. It has been more work that I thought but I do enjoy … Continue reading
Gene Haas Foundation Donation
Gene Haas Foundation Scholarship Donation For Precision and CNC Machining Program Suncoast Technical College – Florida We were very happy to receive help from the Gene Haas Foundation so that we can continue our work training machinists for the … Continue reading
National MFG Day Oct 7th at STC
National MFG is coming up on October 7th here in Sarasota, Florida at Suncoast Technical College. It is a celebration and awareness campaign to promote what makes America great. Manufacturing makes it great. Nationwide we have a great need to train … Continue reading
Vertical Machining Centers at Taylor Guitars – CNC Machining
I visited Taylor as part of a film shoot for a forthcoming Edge Factor documentary on music-industry manufacturing When I visited Taylor Guitars to learn about its manufacturing process, … Continue reading
CNC Precision Machining Fast Track – Night School
Welcome to our new CNC learning program CNC Fast Track starting Feb 2 Starting Feb 2 we are adding a new course. Its called CNC Fast Track Precision for Precision Machining. 300 hour – 20 wk course and its NIGHT school … Continue reading
Fanuc CNC Training now at Suncoast Technical College
We have added Fanuc CNC control training to our curriculum at school. It has been added as a separate module in our LearnCNC software from Immerse 2 Learn. This give our students a real leg up on having training in … Continue reading
Class of 2015 – leaving its mark
Its November and the new class is getting in tune – we just completed a project to make 5 catapults for Holmquist Educational Consultants. These will be used to demo a STEM teaching program for high school and middle school … Continue reading