Machining Program

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The program has had two industry level presentations to student in the past week..  October 13 we held Blaser Swisslube Brett Reynolds (Sales Engineer) and October 19 we had ISCAR Chad Jenkins (Sales & Applications) give our student a 1 hour industry presentation on technologies for there companies.  Thank you to them for their outstanding presentations for our students.

Our machinist instructors will be going to IMX http://www.imxevent.com/imx2011/public/enter.aspx September 11-14.  This will be a great experience for our staff.   IMX was an outstanding experence I would highly recommend you attend http://www.imxevent.com/  in 2013.   Mission critical 2021http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jqY7aDOvCg&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active.

Day 3 is the business meeting, we will be covering the following:

1.  Skills USA with the NTMA Utah Chapter

2.  HTEC officers elections and conference planning ideas

3.  HTEC Meeting .. what are we doing great in our courses.

Today we went to RedMan Salt Mine tour in the morning , had Faro Technology www.faro.com   show a different 3D gage for measurment..there low end cost was around $23,000.

Today we spend 6 hours in training to see the lastest upgrades for MasterCam X5 and Master 3D gage   www.master3dgage.com   really cool technology, alittle high price for education (I can almost purchase a new CNC machine).  We will be looking at a different one this week that is alot less money… Machining training in Richfield is solid…they have a nice shop..of course not as nice as ours..

The group want to see the Negro Baseball Hall of Fame http://www.nlbm.com/… awards ceremony is set for 6 p.m…kemper arena http://www.kemperarenakc.com/default.asp?kemper=173&objId=220… Flight home is set for 6:22 a.m.  It has been fun…but will be glad to be back in Utah.

Start time is about a hour away…calmed the students down last night…they are re-focused and ready to rock today…Both seem to be very positive about the outcome of there areas today, the contest started at 8 a.m. and ended around 5:30p.m…. we will have to see what happens tomorrow night.  Sent students to SKILLS USA Night at the KC Royals game…http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=kc

Today is the start of the Precision Machining Contest..our students will be doing the manul Lathe and Mill today.. Lance is already in competion and Britney will do hers starting this afternoon.  It is a day we can not take pictures of them, however we may post some later of other activites that are going on.. 

  Students had machine issues at the contest…both of our students had the machine parts either missing form the equipment all together, or had parts fall off of the machine….they were both very stressed at the end of day one. 

  Took some of the trip team site seeing….World War 1 museum is here http://www.theworldwar.org/s/110/new/index_community.aspx

Found a really nice off the normal path place to eat…worth a look if you are ever in KC  http://www.woodyardbbq.com/

Today was Orientation Day…. First meetings

Lunch  well  lunch was really good…right up until the

fire at the facility

     Eventually we got to do the familurization with the equipment..