CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — Students in Pickaway-Ross Career and Technology Center’s Precision Machining and CNC program will get access to more industry software after a Piketon manufacturing company gave the program $4,000.
Innovative Solutions Unlimited, known as InSolves, made the donation to help the program buy additional seats of Mastercam, a computer-aided design and manufacturing program used to generate instructions for computer numerical control, or CNC, machine tools, according to the school.
InSolves Owner and CEO Jennifer Barbarits-Phillips and Manufacturing and Project Manager Casey Euton visited the program’s junior class this month to present the donation alongside instructor Roy Cooper and Principal Chris Thornsley, the school said.
The additional software licenses mean more students will be able to train on the same design tools used throughout the machining industry, the school said. InSolves provides CNC and traditional machining, fabrication and welding services, and the company has hired several Pickaway-Ross graduates, creating what school officials described as a direct pipeline between classroom instruction and local manufacturing jobs.
Pickaway-Ross officials said the partnership helps keep the Precision Machining and CNC program’s equipment and instruction aligned with what area employers expect from new hires.
The information contained in this story was obtained from Pickaway-Ross Career and Technology Center.
