Ryan Wallace paints the details on a plaque he created in the “Makerspace” shop at Lyme/Old Lyme High School Tuesday, November 22, 2016. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Old Lyme — On a recent November afternoon, the Makerspace at Lyme-Old Lyme High School was bustling with students working on projects.
Some students used a computer program to create designs they planned to engrave into wood slabs for a clock project. Other students sanded down wood, or loaded their computer files into a machine called a CNC router, that then carved the designs into the wood slabs.
The Makerspace, the school’s technology, engineering and design lab, consists of a large, open room for students to create projects and work on machines, including a plasma…
