With 3D printers, conventional fabrication equipment, laser cutting equipment, automated manufacturing tools, Computer Aided Design (CAD) software and more, Saugus High School’s newly-opened Makerspace is an engineering student’s dream.
The high school unveiled its 3,000-sqaure-foot facility to the public Friday with a luncheon, ribbon cutting ceremony and tour.
“It is exciting kids a lot,” Saugus High School Principal Bill Bolde said. “If they weren’t thinking of engineering before, now they are.”
Saugus Engineering Teacher Tom Mataya researched and purchased most of the items in the Makerspace with a California Career Pathway Trust Makerspace, in addition to donations from SMTCL Americas.
“I try to get every common form of manufacturing represented in the lab to teach things by hand and use the technologies,” Mataya said. “I’m not sure that other Makerspaces…
