Shop Class Podcast

After working in the Toy & Children’s Product world for over 25 years combined, Sabre Mrkva and Eric von Stein started their dream company, Bright Stripes, in 2018. With a shared love of all things craft and DIY, they believe in the power of creative play to empower kids to create the world they want to live in. Sabre brings her 15+ years of experience of nuts & bolts kids’ product develop...

Kyle Thompson has 14 years of experience teaching every grade from kindergarten to adult education, with 12 of those years dedicated to building construction technology & carpentry. Kyle spent several years working in material handling services for residential/commercial construction, tools and materials sales, mobile electrical install services, and industrial submersible pump systems. He is...

Round Table Discussion and International Builder Show Recap Join the fun every Wednesday 8 pm (EST) 7 pm (CST) Google Meet ID: https://meet.google.com/vut-afhh-nfv

Peter Wachtel is an award-winning creative director & design educator, inventor, and author. Award Winning Design “Innovention” for: Toys, Products, Graphics, Video Games, Theme Park & Entertainment Design, Design Education & Cartoon Voice-Overs. • Designed & Developed over 500 Toys & Products (Multiple Patents), and works with some of the Best Toy & Product companies in th...

The New York Society of Model Engineers is dedicated to educating the public and preserving the history of American Railroads through models, exhibits and memorabilia. Join the fun every Wednesday 8 pm (EST) 7 pm (CST) Google Meet ID: https://meet.google.com/vut-afhh-nfv

Carpenter, business owner, and trades educator and advocate Nolee Anderson-Hendren has been dedicated to teaching women and young girls tool skills and getting more women interested in trades work since she helped to found GRIT : Girls Representing In Trades, in 2017. Her dedication to her craft also gets exercised in small renovation builds with her company Joist Studio which has kept her busy re...

What started out as a one-person operation in Marin County, California, has grown into a dynamic machine shop occupying an 8,000 square foot building in Richmond, California over the last 40 years. Paragon Machine Works manufactures and stocks a wide variety of bicycle frame building components. They are a leader in bicycle frame building technology, constantly innovating and providing new product...

Join us for a round table discussion with special guest, CNC milling machine teacher: Jenny Bannink.

For those interested in product design also known as industrial design, this is the episode for you. We're going to go deep on the life career of Bruce Hannah a well-known Pratt Institute industrial design professor and prolific designer.

Mark Weller talks about his EV Cart.

Salt City Steel is a metal fabrication shop located in South Salt Lake City, Utah. Weston has been in the metal fab game for over 15 years. Wes has a full-time job as a ski lift mechanic and runs Salt City Steel in his “spare” time. The shop crew includes his wife Emily and their 3 kids… Lulu, Eva, and Hank. When they are not working in the shop you can usually find the Spencer family out on an ad...

We’ll discuss Brandon’s journey from his first EV conversion to his teaching days at BCC to his career building his own products for the EV industry.

Gregory Abbott, known as Reverend Gadget, is a steel fabrication artist, industrial designer, prop builder, and media personality. He is best known as a pioneer in converting vintage cars to electric, featured in Reverend Gadget’s Garage, Who Killed the Electric Car and alongside Elon Musk in the documentary Revenge of the Electric Car. Television audiences recognize Reverend Gadget as part of the...

Join us Wednesday on the Shop Class Podcast where we’re talking to a veteran wood shop teacher, Steve Richards and new teacher Taylor Boehmer. We’re going to get a shop tour and an overview of what these two Powerhouse teachers do in their classroom workshop. Steve Richards, 24year veteran of teaching fine woodworking and tech ed. in NJ. Father, remodeler, and general nerd about woodworking and bu...

Featuring Jeff Boliba from Snow Partners and Chris Davis from Henry Ford II Woodworking.

Join us for a round table discussion. We have our guests all the way from Southern California who are Auto Shop Teachers.

Tonight on the shop class podcast. Cybertruck versus traditional. Whose side are you on? Let's discuss it.

Special guest, Director Tae Kang, talks about Harbor Freight Tools for Schools.

Shop teachers creating their own professional development with the shop class podcast. Join us as we go through a presentation given at the annual NJTEEA conference that will give an overview of our professional development we created summer before. Last summer we went to Taylorville Illinois to install a solar battery off-grid system for a teacher to use in their job site trailer to build a house...

By popular demand we did a Workshop safety episode. This attracted a lot of teachers from around the country. We had at least three from California, about five from New York State, and two from Pennsylvania. Shop safety is a universal topic that everyone can relate to. We shared a lot of ideas. And learned from each other. Tune in as we discuss one of the scariest topics but very necessary.. Shop...

Welcome back to another episode of the shop class podcast, tonight we have a update from a very unique shop class program in Taylorville Illinois, Matt Blomquist is the teacher. Instead of the student having a shop class inside of a building, they go outside where they actually build a building as the class. In this episode you get to see an update on what it's like to run a shop class as a jo...

Join us as we talk about Maker Camp 2023.

Join us as we talk about Maker Camp 2023.

It's time to address the elephant in the workshop. AI language and image generation is a new tool that is proving useful and widespread. How are you using this as an advantage in your workshop? We discuss the ins and outs and use live examples in this episode of the shop class podcast.

This past summer 2023, I traveled to California and led a conversion from gas to electric. We did this in a compressed amount of time: 5 weeks with all volunteer crew along with the help of EV West. It was an incredible journey from start to finish.