We have finally reached a point with our program where we feel that we have developed a few items that we can begin to sell to students and folks around town. Profits will directly benefit the kids and their CTE Manufacturing program at GPHS. This has been a goal of ours for quite some time and with the addition of the new CO2 laser and the Shopbot CNC it is now beginning to take shape. Among the challenges the students will face is learning just how much time and effort will be asked of them in order to make this not only work but work smoothly. Students will be required to calculate costs to produce individual items to come up with a profit margin that is acceptable, get a production schedule that works smoothly and efficiently, and work closely with other students, faculty and customers.
We hope to include other departments at the school such as Business, Video, Drafting and Photography. The goal is to have the drafting and design students working on new designs and specialty jobs while the Photography and Video kids work with us to develop a catalog and to promote our products. Business kids could really benefit from this as they could help to set up our accounting, inventory tracking and sales. We would like to get the Video Production students to produce a video or two that highlights the whole process.
 Although we are in the initial stages of all of this, the students are excited to be a part of everything. The goal is to keep this level of interest and desire flowing and to provide everybody involved with a real-world "toe in the water" of what it may be like to start up and run a small production and manufacturing business. Wish us luck! |  |
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