Shop Class Podcast

Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Award winners: Nicholas Jordan, Construction, Montecito High School, CA Casey Lunceford, Agricultural Mechanics, Ronan High School, MT And finalists: Ashton Bohling, Industrial Technology, Johnson Brock High School – Johnson, NE Matt Blomquist, Construction, Taylorville High School – Taylorville, IL Originally published on November 11, 2021

Mattterport is a 3D space Tour software that we think could help shop teachers. So Blomquist and Barbercheck gave it a try. Here is a link, you maybe you can try it for a shop tour. FYI we are not sponsored by Matterport... yet :) Check back to part 2 with Conner Malloy. Originally published on November 6, 2021

Did you ever take shop class in high school? We discuss what it's like to teach shop class in two different schools that are in two different states. Kevin Wit, a Woodshop teacher in the WNY, NJ High School, collaborated with an English and Shop teacher from Republic, Michigan. Originally published on November 6, 2021

Matt Blomquist and Steven Baczek talk about Building Science Matt Blomquist Bᴜɪʟᴅɪɴɢ Tʀᴀᴅᴇs Iɴsᴛʀᴜᴄᴛᴏʀ Tᴀʏʟᴏʀᴠɪʟʟᴇ Hɪɢʜ Sᴄʜᴏᴏʟ put trades in schools teach building science create hands on experiences REPEAT Steven Baczek Architect Building Science "UnBuild It" podcast host Lecturer / Writer Contributor for @thebuildshow linktr.ee/Steven_Baczek_Architect Originally published on November 5...

Career and Technical Education Center (CTEC) Welding Instructor Andrew Saweikis received the 2021 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence, winning $50,000 for the program in the nationwide competition. https://harborfreighttoolsforschools.org/prize_person/andrew-saweikis/ Andrew also has a interesting sign manufacturing business.... Check it out! https://www.instagram.com/sw...

This week we have a $100 grand HFTFS winner Jeff Bertke on the show!!! Jeff Bertke has been an electrical trades teacher at Upper Valley Career Center in Piqua, Ohio for 11 years. After graduating from the program in 1999, he earned his journeyman license and entered the industry with passion for the trade and a love for learning. After six years of industry experience, he was put in charge of tea...

Career and Technical Education Center (CTEC) Welding Instructor Andrew Saweikis received the 2021 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence, winning $50,000 for the program in the nationwide competition. Andrew also has a interesting sign manufacturing business.... Check it out! https://www.instagram.com/swakmetals/ Originally published on October 23, 2021

Brant Taylor, The Tool Hacker, joins us on the Shop Class Podcast!! To describe Brant would take too long, so here's the quick version. He's a contractor/jack of trades and since his brain is always ON he thinks of awesome ways to turn ordinary tools into machines specially designed to help the modern homebuilding professional and even shop teachers.... Brant's forward thinking on the...

Riley Flores joins us on the Shop Class Podcast!! Riley is a graduate from Memorial High School (Ron a.k.a Mr. G's school) who was in the STEAM Engineering Department. She is currently studying biomedical engineering at Brown University, where she also spent two years as the workshop monitor for their Makerspace. Riley is also an undergrad researcher for the New Mexico Institute of Mining and...

Matt give us an inspirational overview of the Midwest Building Science Symposium. Here is a link to his speech at the show. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CUatsPLAnDX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Originally published on October 6, 2021.

Joanne Mitchell joins us to talk manufacturing and engineering. She worked for 29 years at Sandvik cutting tools and now she is giving back to the industry by helping to train and recruit the new engineers of the future. Joanne is currently helping the Bergen County New Jersey Workforce Development to put people together with employers and also work with employers to help them fill careers. There...

Mr. Barbercheck will be dropping in to give a quick update on Capable Maker. This is something he has partnered up with Harbor Freight's Tools for Schools organization to develop we think it's going to be AWESOME!!! So check it out and you can provide feedback to Mr. Barbercheck by clicking this Google Form Link HERE.

Vincent Perry's, battery powered Airstream coffee trailer  Vincent Perry, co-creator of the coffee stream. An off-grid battery powered coffee food trailer made from a Airstream trailer.  1967 airstream trailer turned coffee shop! Have an event you want coffee at?! DM us!! Owners: @steph_halonski and @vince_perry  @thecoffeestreamnj #stemeducation #handmade #custom #airsteam #foodtru...

This week on the Shop Class Podcast we have Elyse Burden Executive Director at Real World Scholars to talk entrepreneurs in the classroom.   Elyse is passionate about equity and elevating the voice, role, and contributions of young people as they do work that matters to them. At Real World Scholars, she works to give students the opportunity and resources needed to be changemakers and so...

Todd Stogdell, the technical director of Island Concepts. They are a paint distributor exclusively for AkzoNobel in Hawaii. His day-to-day operation is teaching and training people on how to use their Paint Product Lines and other hands on training in the collision industry what different types of adhesives and repair products. He works with 3M, Fusor, Norton abrasives and many others manufacturer...

Shop Class Podcast Mark Wille from T Stud joins us not just to talk a little bit about product, but even more importantly his passion for our youth to learn in the trade and shop classes.  Mark is everywhere it seems like on the social media platforms not only promoting building science in the building industry but the importance that we all need to do our part to educate are youth and get th...

Jay Abitz joins us to introduce us to his award winning Automotive program at Freedom High School in Wisconsin.  The Freedom High School Automotive program came to life in 1972 under the guidance of Bob Abitz, who built the program over an outstanding 35 year career. Over the years this program has grown into one of the most renowned and accredited programs in the state and even the nation. C...

Forrest from KoogleWerks Vintage Motorsports joins us to talk custom fabrication. Forrest jumps on to show off some of his awesome handmade performance, aerodynamics and interior car parts that he makes in his shop.  We might even be able to get a shop tour and see some of his favorite tools. Video of this episode is here: https://youtu.be/FEqrTK42RAI

On the Shop Class Podcast Roy Castillo joins us from California to talk shop class and talk about his students achievements at the National Student Furniture Showcase in Las Vegas.  As a passionate Technical Education advocate Roy centers his focus on student understanding and growth. Through Industrial Wood Technology students will learn to listen, reason, practice and produce in a meaningfu...

On the Shop Class Podcast Matt Blomquist gives us a tour of the student built house from the Taylorville (IL) High School Building Trades program.  Matt got to relaunch the house building program in 2019 and continued working on the house with a mostly hybrid schedule through the 2020 school year.  His students put an emphasis on energy efficiency and quality to bring the program up to t...

Shop Class Podcast we're covering two topics! First, Tim and Nick share their experience at Catskill Mountain Maker Camp with Justin Dietrich and Jimmy Diresta. They attended Justin's Timber Framing Class and will be filling us in on all the fun. Second, Matt Foley, of Sunlight Conversions joins us to talk about all the awesome things he does with solar energy.   Matt took the diesel eng...

Todd Clippinger as our guest and he'll be talking all things shop and shop class.   Since 1997, Todd has been working as a remodeling contractor, designer, and professional woodworker for residential and commercial clients in several states.   With his competitive designs and high level of craftsmanship, he has become a juried woodworking artist.    Todd's work h...

OG Shop Class host Mr. Barberheck gives up an update on his programs.   Augmented Reality https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens  Sauna project  https://www.instagram.com/p/CQe-Wzgj6ri/ Beta Testing the Capable Maker App https://capablemaker.softwareontheroad.com/  Class Economy  https://edcorps.org/ Video version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/JL8OAx7xEHo

Tonight's guest on the Shop Class Podcast is David Almanzan, an Automotive Technology instructor in Houston Texas. He mainly teaches at the high school level for Andy Dekaney High School at Spring Independent School District. He's also an adjunct instructor for Houston Community College as well as bilingual instructor for Delphi Technologies.   His whole life has always revolved around c...

This week's guest is, Tiffany VonOrff, she was a born and raised Southern California girl who started wrenching at the age of 16 which was closely followed by cruising the boulevard in low riders…which turned into going to car shows and then joining a car club.  That evolution is where the welding came from. Modifying vehicles is what everyone did in the clubs so that lead her to walking into...