From June 11 – 14, 40 local 5th through 8th grade students participated in the second annual Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing Camp at the Northwest Georgia College and Career Academy. At the camp, students had the opportunity to build model race cars using Auto CAD professional software, learn soldering and other skills to create a siren, work on Photoshop to design carpet, tour local manufacturing and power facilities, and build teamwork skills.
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| Student wins award for carpet she designed during DEM Camp. |
At the camp’s graduation ceremony on June 14, students had an opportunity to show off the carpets they designed, reflect on their experiences touring facilities, and race their model cars. Students remarked at the diversity they saw in the carpet companies, the variety of opportunities that they didn’t know were available locally, and how much fun they had building their sirens.
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| Students race cars created during DEM Camp. |
The idea for the Design, Engineering & Manufacturing Camp emerged during Archway’s Higher Education Issue Work Group sessions in spring 2011. At the meetings, citizens talked about the need to expose students at an early age to the variety of career options available to them. A Leadership-Dalton Whitfield survey conducted during fall 2010 revealed that students had very low perceptions of local opportunities and did not understand the highly-skilled nature of many jobs.
The camp was sponsored by Shaw, Dalton Utilities, Mohawk, J&J, Georgia Northwestern Technical College, the Dalton-Whitfield County Joint Development Authority, Dalton Public Schools, Whitfield County Schools, the Boys and Girls Clubs, the Archway Partnership, the Greater Dalton Chamber of Commerce and Grow Greater Dalton. To learn more about DEM Camp, click on the following link: http://daltondailycitizen.com/local/x1291708188/Day-camp-draws-budding-engineers-designers.
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| Cars students created during DEM Camp
*Special thanks to Eric Beavers for providing photographs.
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