b"Lead AngleCAMP CHAMP!Aevents should go far to help change the hands-on educational program designed to spread awareness aboutperception of manufacturing careers in this careers in manufacturing, Camp CHAMPcountry.debuted as part of the Leyden StudentAt the end of the first day of the Summit held last month at East Leydencamp, I had the privilege of sitting down High School in Franklin Park, Illinois. Of theto interview three middle schoolers in 170 middle school students who signed upattendance. (You can hear what they had for the two-day summer career-orientedto say by scanning the QR image that's educational event, 30 chose to experiencenext to a still captured from Cutting Tool Engineerings video coverage of the event.) Suffice to say, turning and milling and laser marking are cool, and would make for a cool job.Camp CHAMP made a good impression for manufacturing, and, hopefully, the industry can help keep that momentum going by supporting CHAMPION Now with future such efforts. If youre interested in sponsoring a future camp, contact CHAMPION Now Executive Director Brit Iverson (Terry's son) at [email protected] in this effort now will pay dividends down the road as many of todays youth become tomorrows manufacturing workforce.CTE Booth Visits at Eastec 2023 Cutting Tool Engineering Camp CHAMPfirst-hand what it takes to make pens outcaptured 31 different booth participants learnof wood using tabletop machinery. Thevisits on video while attending about measurementstudents watched and assisted with variousEastec 2023 in May. You can and inspectionoperations as they moved from one stationbegin watching them now by during the event atto the next. There was a tabletop lathe, ascanning the QR code below.View EASTEC the Leyden Studentrotary indexer, a tabletop milling machine,If you don't have time now,booth videos.Summit on June 15th. an assembly station, a laser markingno problem; we will publish a machine and, finally, an inspection system. synopsis of each CTE Booth The brainchild of Terry Iverson andVisit in our August issue. CTEthe CHAMPION Now organization he founded, Camp CHAMP is the not-for-Learn moreprofit organization's latest effort to changeabout the author about Camphow American manufacturing is perceived CHAMP. in our nation (CHAMPION). JudgingDennis Spaeth is CEO and from its successful debut at the Leydenpublisher of CTE. Contact him at 847-714-0176 or Student Summit, future Camp [email protected] 2023LeadAngle.indd 4 6/16/23 12:23 PM"