Red Rock Central tech classes on the cutting edge

For most readers, memories of shop class include coming up with an idea, drawing the plan out with pencil and paper, selecting the materials and then learning how to use a lathe, jointer, planer, table saw and jigsaw to bring form and function to the project.

Those skills are still taught today in "tech arts" which has replaced the tradition "shop" class, but at Red Rock Central School in Lamberton there is a real emphasis on the "tech" or technology part of the class.

In fact, a lot of what students are working with today in that school's tech arts class would have been considered pure science fiction one generation ago. No one knows this better than Steve Wegman, who has taught shop/industrial arts/tech arts at Sanborn High School and now Red Rock Central for more than 30 years.

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