Mary Ann Thomas | Tribune-Review
Dustin Traill, tech education teacher at Apollo-Ridge High School, shows a wood design of the Apollo-Ridge logo made by students with a computerized router in the high school wood shop.
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It’s not your father’s wood shop. A CNC router is programmed to buzz through wood with any design created on a computer for the Industrial Math class at Apollo-Ridge High School.
That’s just the beginning.
Donations to buy new equipment for high school shop classes totaled about $75,000 in the past several years. Big donors included the Apollo-Ridge Education Foundation and Arconic Foundation.