Shop Class Podcast

Join us for the 1st Annual Shop Class Podcast In-Person Conference, where we will be installing an off-grid system. This system will provide power for our Mobile Classroom, a student-built and community-donated facility. The primary objective of this conference is to bring together both members of the Shop Class Podcast for an in-person event, marking our first-ever gathering. We envision this eve...

Join us for the 1st Annual Shop Class Podcast In-Person Conference, where we will be installing an off-grid system. This system will provide power for our Mobile Classroom, a student-built and community-donated facility. The primary objective of this conference is to bring together both members of the Shop Class Podcast for an in-person event, marking our first-ever gathering. We envision this eve...

Join us for the 1st Annual Shop Class Podcast In-Person Conference, where we will be installing an off-grid system. This system will provide power for our Mobile Classroom, a student-built and community-donated facility. The primary objective of this conference is to bring together both members of the Shop Class Podcast for an in-person event, marking our first-ever gathering. We envision this eve...

Manny Mena is a 2002 memorial high school graduate and self-taught mechanical engineer. After having graduated Lincoln Tech, and Wild Tech Automotive Technical schools, he completed a tool and die apprenticeship. He moved on to designing and building custom race cars for small private racing teams. As a result of the economic fall, out of 2008, Manny moved on to a career in the industrial equipmen...

Audree M Grubesic, an offsite construction expert and the owner of Modular Sure Site. This consulting Construction company collaborates with traditional builders and land developers looking to build their first offsite project. She has first-hand experience of project management on site of their offsite projects. Over the past 20+ years, she has excelled in marketing, sales, new business developme...

Tonight a Shop Class Podcast O.G. is on the show!!! Matthew Barbercheck joins us to highlight his Capable Maker app. Barabercheck has teamed up with Harbor Freight Tools for Schools to create an app that will help relieve the pain points of project documentation and distribution for project base teachers. Tonight he'll be giving the highlights and inviting shop teachers to start test driving t...

This week's special guest is Connor Malloy will be LAUNCHING the the 2023 Wall Assembly Competition (Student Edition). This is a great opportunity to have your students participate and be involved with some of the residential construction industry's best of the best professionals. Jump over to the Wall Assembly website for more details, but first jump on to the Shop Class Podcast (Wednesda...

Brittney has been fortunate to do what she loves as a career. Since 2014, She has worked in the Greater Boston area as a middle school art teacher. As a Woburn native, it is quite special that Brittney gets to work in a neighboring town to where she grew up. After completing her masters, she yearned for something more. Brittney made plenty of artwork with her students but it wasn’t until her thesi...

Tonight's Shop Class Podcast topic is Tormach CNC machines in the classroom. Our Guest lineup is huge. We got 3 teachers, 2 sales reps, and an educational representative from Tormach. Leif Sorgule, shop teacher from upstate New York Matt Garrera, shop teacher from New Jersey. Dave Richards, shop teacher from New Jersey kyle Lavieri, sales representative from Allegheny Rob Link, sales represent...

This week we have Eddy Borysewicz of Revolt Systems joins us to talk shop and what it's like to build the world's fastest electric car. https://revoltsystems.com/ https://www.teamvesco.com/ Originally published on November 14, 2022

Go to https://hftforschoolsprize.org/ The Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence awards $1.5 million to 25 outstanding skilled trades teachers and programs in U.S. public high schools. Tae Kang is the show to talk about the 2023 prize and application process. Don't be surprised to see some past and current prize winners on the show giving some insider tips on how their...

State of the art, State Tech Education Conferences Originally published on November 7, 2022

In this episode we interview 2 of The Harbor Freight Tools for Schools 2022 Award winners. Matt Blomquist and Leif Sorgule. To Kick-off the episode we have Tae Kang, program director for Harbor Freight Tools for Schools. As you may know, Matt has been on a roll bringing awareness to the shop classes by connecting the industry to his unique shop class. Matt's students build a house from scratch...

Maker Camp 2022 was so good we had to have a post-game. It's a recap with a Roundtable discussion about how good make a camp was and what we're going to do next year. Originally published on October 15, 2022

"The Catskill Mountain Maker Camp is a gathering of curious, creative people who like to learn and share what they can do. It is a place where creators can show their work, learn new skills/techniques, and meet like-minded makers. It encompasses a gathering of artisans, educators, do-it-yourselfers, hobbyists, engineers, writers, artists, students and commercial exhibitors to show what they d...

George Vondriska has been teaching woodworking since 1986. In addition to running his own woodworking school, George has taught woodworking courses for woodworking shows, woodworking schools, retail stores, the U.S. Peace Corps, the Pentagon, Northwest Airlines, and Andersen Window. George is the primary instructor for Vondriska Woodworks woodworking classes. You may also know George from his work...

Kevin Lieberman, Harley-Davidson software engineer. Wednesday September 14th on the shop class podcast. This week we have Kevin Lieberman, Harley-Davidson software engineer. He got his humble beginnings working as a software engineer. "I wrote software on ancient DOS based computers that answered 800 and 900 phone numbers for sports, horse racing and psychic lines before the internet was a th...

Tonight Mark Brems joins us tonight to talk more about converting cars into electric. Follow Marks EV conversion story at... https://allmylinks.com/mcbrems Originally published on August 12, 2022

Tonight Thomas Baisch the inventor of the FrogPod joins us!! Tonight join the discussion of inventing, manufacturing, Kick Starting, and just thinking outside of the box. Solve a problem, save the world!! Originally published on August 3, 2022

Tonight Mr. Barbercheck joins us to catch up and let us in on what's happening with Capable Maker project!! Join us tonight!! Hope everyone's summer is going awesome! Originally published on July 28, 2022

John Stack, Multi-disciplinary Engineer Originally published on July 21, 2022

Michael Bream is the founder and owner of EV West. It is an electric vehicle parts supplier that fits the category of a hot rod shop. Michael uses the spirit of DIY and racing to offer solutions for classic cars turn Electric. In most cases, the electric parts will double or triple the horsepower of a classic car. Michael and EV West have shown lots of support for high school shop teachers over ye...

This week's guest is JT Kostman, artificial intelligence expert extraordinaire, Wednesday June 22nd 8 to 10 p.m. Eastern on the shop class podcast. This might be the world's most interesting man. JT stated his career as a team leader of a Scout Sniper Recon Team with the United States Special Forces. Then moved into data science for the government and then Private Industry. He spent severa...

In this episode, we talked with Greg Quirin, a shop teacher coordinator in San Diego County. He has a great YouTube channel that covers the land speed racing team and engine designer Pete Aardema and Kevin Braun. https://www.youtube.com/c/GregQuirin/videos We also spoke with shop teachers about their summer plans. Originally published on June 19, 2022

This week's guest is Jim Johnsen the Auto and Metal Shop teacher at Long Beach New York High School. Jim grew up working with his hands, surfing and riding BMX and has been teaching shop for the last 17 years and brings that rad attitude to the shop class. Each year him and his students restore a vehicle and these things are AWESOME!!! Jump on tonight as Jim gives us the inside scoop of his hi...