At first glance, comedian Jay Leno’s promotional plug for the American Welding Society seems like a mismatched endorsement. Until you remind yourself that all those antique auto parts piling up in his garage aren’t connected with Elmer’s Glue.
We stumbled across Leno’s kiss to vocational education when we chatted with Bill Malone, the Minnesota machinist who uses DraftSight’s professional-grade, free 2D CAD download to teach troubled teens about career opportunities in the manufacturing sector.
If one CAD drawing is worth 1,000 words, than this celebrity video is worth a million in the classroom:
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4GSR says: November 10, 2011
I’m all for putting the vocational programs back into our school systems. There are needed to bring manufacturing back to America! Our only problem is, the insurance companies, lawyers, OSHA, and politicians are to blame for the disappearence of vocational education in our school systems.