February is Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month.
On their tour of the Region 14 Applied Technology Center at ConVal High School, DCS students enjoyed getting hands-on with student woodworking samples, such as puzzles, wooden dice, nutcrackers, and handmade “Thor” mallets that high schoolers had produced for their midterm exam.
In the engineering lab, they learned about additive and subtractive manufacturing. Engineering teacher Karen Fabianski showed off a student project that combined both techniques — a laser-engraved chess board (subtractive manufacturing) and 3D-printed chess pieces (additive manufacturing).
