Lucas Pacheco
@ScrutineerLuca
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Manufacturing Instructor @ Hawthorne High- School of Manufacturing & Engineering
Los Angeles
Joined September 2010
Training our youth on industry grade manufacturing equipment in a public school is possible. Hawthorne High - School of Manufacturing & Engineering: 9000 sq.ft. of pure innovation. Machine shops, engineering labs, fabrication zones, robotics, 3D printing, and a garage + work
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What are your clankers doing today? No droids have been harmed today…
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Jumped in a plane from El Segundo to go see a factory being built in Dallas. I was standing in a brand new factory during a hiring event, with the Biggest American flag I have ever seen and the right group of people to pull it off. ReIndustrialization is not Hype. People
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This most underrated tool in the shop. Not only does it clean… It sorts which kids are going to make it. If you have time to lean. You have time to clean. G
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This Challenge Coin Display was made by our high school shop for a retiring TSA Admin.
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Bring Back Shop Class. It’s builds our most important resource. People. You can make Shop Class into what ever you want it to be. Just get the kids to make stuff. Build something real, it teaches craftsmanship, work ethic, hard skills. Design Layout Manufacturing
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In our shop class… We have gotten good at building things we find on the internet. Manufacturing ✅ Assembly ✅ Wiring ✅ Base Code ✅ Actual coding it to make it work… it now lives on a shelf We still learn a shit ton. This was a project from the class of 2022. The imu
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Teaching is always interesting. Random things the kids leave on my desk when they have questions. Let’s see where this one goes…
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Now we have a list and map! to start engaging with trade schools in you area. This is way to invest. You have to engage in these programs to help the develop the employees you need. If they don’t need help you found a great program! If they need help make that connection.
I enriched list of 1,032 technical schools training America's workforce, including capabilities learned a ton about where skilled trades education is concentrated, and where gaps might be 🧵
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Looking for a skilled techs? Welders? Machinists? Engineers? They are sitting in a high school shop that is doing great things and shops that need life brought into them. Call to ALL of the industrialists and manufacturers. Go visit your local shop class. Mentor the
Spent the morning spreading the good word of manufacturing careers to 150+ high school workshop students Takeaway: the kids will be alright
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What’s one thing you’d want in shop class tomorrow if it could help power U.S. cities or defend the nation and bring manufacturing back? What would build our workforce?
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Build more High School Shops! Update and Bring back knowledge transfer to the community colleges shops. Make it easier for the generational craftsmen to teach. Donate time and resources to this effort.
This is exactly what we need for the next generation of industrialists.
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Anyone up for some Mid 50’s to late 60’s Jet Era concept art?
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Built not bought, A senior designed, laser cut, and assembled this to leave a mark on the shop wall. Bring back shop class. Get kids making things again. Manufacturing is cool. Printers for scale…
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Manufacturing is magic. Step one acquire chunk of metal. Install chuck of metal in metal machine Machine eats metal More people need to experience this magic. Direct quote from a high school kid making chips.
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My students heard me say I need more help around here… This is what happens when you leave them alone with a bunch filament and a hand full of printers. They might replace me
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I was taught by many people that were engineers. Non in a classroom outside of college. There is a way for degreed engineers, experienced machinists, and many other technically skilled people to teach high school and lower. It’s called a Designated Subjects Credential in
This is true. My father, an engineer, was the best teacher; a chess team he coached for fun at the local elementary school won in CA every year. He would have loved to teach math or science as he retired; he looked into it but unions had setup blocks to make it impossible.
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What can high school manufacturing look like? Design+Machining+3D printing… equals a bunch of young kids that love to make things. Teach them young. Get them excited. What if this was your high school? Where do you find your workers ready to build?
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This is what makes me do what I do! Teaching a skill in Manufacturing to our youth requires me to stay alive in what’s new. Not a day goes by that I myself am not learning in order for me to teach and stay relevant.
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