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The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this experiment on forming brass and bronze from pennies. Students will use post and pre-1983 pennies to create bronze and brass alloys. The class will learn the differences between brass, bronze and copper as well as laboratory...

Program Description: In fall 2014, the Minnesota State Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence and its partners coordinated over 85 manufacturing businesses and three two-year colleges across Minnesota to provide tours of their facilities for students and educators, job seekers, other...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is a demonstration of electric guitar neck and fretboard assembly. Topics covered include fretboard nut area contour; fret dot location, drilling, and gluing; aligning and gluing the fretboard to the neck; and securing the glued pieces for...

This slide deck accompanied a presentation given by Alan Zube of Florida State College at Jacksonville and Mike Tanner of Waukegan High School at the 2018 Hi-Tech conference in Miami, Florida. This presentation addresses the low cost manufacturing trainer that was developed by a project team with...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is a narrated demonstration of the creation of the geometrical shape of electric guitar bodies in Fusion 360 computer-aided manufacturing software. Topics covered include: Introduction, Spline Creation, Line Creation, and Arc Creation. The video...

This video provides information about the Badge Pathway at Minnesota State Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence, and covers topics such as what digital badges are, how to participate, and the college scholarship that students may be eligible for upon completion of the program. The video runs...

This 24-page report, published by Palos Verdes High School, describes the design and construction of Mamba, an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV). This report was created by the Palos Verdes Institute of Technology (PVIT), a student group that participated in the 2021 MATE ROV competitions...

This 12-page activity is provided by Edmonds Community College and is intended to build 3-D visualization skills. Students use a manual technique (manipulation of a solid object on a virtual platform) to build these skills. This activity includes a Table of Contents and the following sections:...

These presentation slides are provided by Edmonds Community College and are intended to use with the 3-D Spatial Visualization Skill Building for Additive Manufacturing activity. The slides include a blank KWLD Chart; a 2-D Cartesian Coordinate System image; a 3-D X, Y, Z-Axis diagram; a...

This learning activity introduces students to rapid prototyping and 3D printing in the classroom setting. Students use a UV sensitive monomer to make small three-dimensional objects and learn about the chemistry and physics of the process. This demonstration is intended for a high school audience....