Shop Class Podcast
by Ron (Mr.G) Grosinger
Did you have shop class? That is the first question we ask every guest to the Shop Class Podcast. Joins us Wednesday night 8-10PM Eastern on a Google meet. We have guests ranging from the Building trades to NASA scientists to Hot Rod Builders.Speaking of special guest, if you haven't been able to join us on the live show, go to our new YouTube Channel (SUBSCRIBE) and check out some of our past episodes. We've been very fortunate to have some great guest covering some awesome topics from robotics and 3D printing to welding and building go-karts.
Episodes
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Sabre Mrkva - Kid's Product Development
After working in the Toy & Children’s Product world for over 25 years combined, Sabre Mrkva and Eric von Stein started their dream company, Bright Stripes, in 2018. With a shared love of all things craft and DIY, they believe in the power of creative play to empower kids to create the world they...
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Kyle Thompson - Carpentry Instructor
Kyle Thompson has 14 years of experience teaching every grade from kindergarten to adult education, with 12 of those years dedicated to building construction technology & carpentry. Kyle spent several years working in material handling services for residential/commercial construction, tools and...
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Round Table Discussion and IBS Recap
Round Table Discussion and International Builder Show Recap Join the fun every Wednesday 8 pm (EST) 7 pm (CST) Google Meet ID: https://meet.google.com/vut-afhh-nfv
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Peter Wachtel - Creative Design Educator, Toy Designer, Inventor, Author
Peter Wachtel is an award-winning creative director & design educator, inventor, and author. Award Winning Design “Innovention” for: Toys, Products, Graphics, Video Games, Theme Park & Entertainment Design, Design Education & Cartoon Voice-Overs. • Designed & Developed over 500 Toys & Products...
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New York Society of Model Engineers - America's Oldest Model Train Club
The New York Society of Model Engineers is dedicated to educating the public and preserving the history of American Railroads through models, exhibits and memorabilia. Join the fun every Wednesday 8 pm (EST) 7 pm (CST) Google Meet ID: https://meet.google.com/vut-afhh-nfv
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Nolee Anderson-Hendren - Teaching Women & Young Girls Tool Skills and Trades Work
Carpenter, business owner, and trades educator and advocate Nolee Anderson-Hendren has been dedicated to teaching women and young girls tool skills and getting more women interested in trades work since she helped to found GRIT : Girls Representing In Trades, in 2017. Her dedication to her craft...
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Paragon Machine Works - Mark and Calvin
What started out as a one-person operation in Marin County, California, has grown into a dynamic machine shop occupying an 8,000 square foot building in Richmond, California over the last 40 years. Paragon Machine Works manufactures and stocks a wide variety of bicycle frame building components....
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Jennifer Bannink - CNC Mill Teacher, Round Table Discussion
Join us for a round table discussion with special guest, CNC milling machine teacher: Jenny Bannink.
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Bruce Hannah - Industrial Designer and Professor
For those interested in product design also known as industrial design, this is the episode for you. We're going to go deep on the life career of Bruce Hannah a well-known Pratt Institute industrial design professor and prolific designer.
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Mark Weller - Founder of the EV Cart
Mark Weller talks about his EV Cart.
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Weston Spencer - Salt City Steel, Welding Inventor
Salt City Steel is a metal fabrication shop located in South Salt Lake City, Utah. Weston has been in the metal fab game for over 15 years. Wes has a full-time job as a ski lift mechanic and runs Salt City Steel in his “spare” time. The shop crew includes his wife Emily and their 3 kids… Lulu…
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Brandon Hollinger: Gas to Electric Conversion
We’ll discuss Brandon’s journey from his first EV conversion to his teaching days at BCC to his career building his own products for the EV industry.
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Gadget of Left Coast EV
Gregory Abbott, known as Reverend Gadget, is a steel fabrication artist, industrial designer, prop builder, and media personality. He is best known as a pioneer in converting vintage cars to electric, featured in Reverend Gadget’s Garage, Who Killed the Electric Car and alongside Elon Musk in the...
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Wood Shop Tour with Steve Richards and Taylor Boehmer
Join us Wednesday on the Shop Class Podcast where we’re talking to a veteran wood shop teacher, Steve Richards and new teacher Taylor Boehmer. We’re going to get a shop tour and an overview of what these two Powerhouse teachers do in their classroom workshop. Steve Richards, 24year veteran of...
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Students Build and Ride Boards
Featuring Jeff Boliba from Snow Partners and Chris Davis from Henry Ford II Woodworking.
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Round Table Discussion - Southern California Auto Shop Teachers
Join us for a round table discussion. We have our guests all the way from Southern California who are Auto Shop Teachers.
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Cybertruck vs. Traditional... Whose side are you on?
Tonight on the shop class podcast. Cybertruck versus traditional. Whose side are you on? Let's discuss it.
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Harbor Freight Tools For Schools - Director, Tae Kang
Special guest, Director Tae Kang, talks about Harbor Freight Tools for Schools.
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NJTEEA Conference Recap
Shop teachers creating their own professional development with the shop class podcast. Join us as we go through a presentation given at the annual NJTEEA conference that will give an overview of our professional development we created summer before. Last summer we went to Taylorville Illinois to...
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Workshop Safety Episode
By popular demand we did a Workshop safety episode. This attracted a lot of teachers from around the country. We had at least three from California, about five from New York State, and two from Pennsylvania.Shop safety is a universal topic that everyone can relate to. We shared a lot of ideas.…
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Shop Class in Taylorville Illinois - Students Build a House
Welcome back to another episode of the shop class podcast, tonight we have a update from a very unique shop class program in Taylorville Illinois, Matt Blomquist is the teacher. Instead of the student having a shop class inside of a building, they go outside where they actually build a building…
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Maker Camp 2023 - Recap
Join us as we talk about Maker Camp 2023.
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Maker Camp - Pre Game
Join us as we talk about Maker Camp 2023.
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The Elephant in the Room is... The AI Revolution
It's time to address the elephant in the workshop. AI language and image generation is a new tool that is proving useful and widespread. How are you using this as an advantage in your workshop? We discuss the ins and outs and use live examples in this episode of the shop class podcast.
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Summer Project Recap - VW Bus Conversion
This past summer 2023, I traveled to California and led a conversion from gas to electric. We did this in a compressed amount of time: 5 weeks with all volunteer crew along with the help of EV West. It was an incredible journey from start to finish.
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1 Week Until... Installing Off-Grid Systems Conference, Taylorville Highschool
Join us for the 1st Annual Shop Class Podcast In-Person Conference, where we will be installing an off-grid system. This system will provide power for our Mobile Classroom, a student-built and community-donated facility. The primary objective of this conference is to bring together both members…
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2 Weeks Until... Installing Off-Grid Systems Conference, Taylorville Highschool
Join us for the 1st Annual Shop Class Podcast In-Person Conference, where we will be installing an off-grid system. This system will provide power for our Mobile Classroom, a student-built and community-donated facility. The primary objective of this conference is to bring together both members…
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3 Weeks Until... Installing Off-Grid Systems Conference, Taylorville Highschool
Join us for the 1st Annual Shop Class Podcast In-Person Conference, where we will be installing an off-grid system. This system will provide power for our Mobile Classroom, a student-built and community-donated facility. The primary objective of this conference is to bring together both members…
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Manny Mena, self-taught Mechanical Engineer
Manny Mena is a 2002 memorial high school graduate and self-taught mechanical engineer. After having graduated Lincoln Tech, and Wild Tech Automotive Technical schools, he completed a tool and die apprenticeship. He moved on to designing and building custom race cars for small private racing…
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Audree M Grubesic, Executive Editor at OffsiteDirt and owner Modular Sure Site
Audree M Grubesic, an offsite construction expert and the owner of Modular Sure Site. This consulting Construction company collaborates with traditional builders and land developers looking to build their first offsite project. She has first-hand experience of project management on site of their...
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Capable Maker app. by Mr. Barabercheck
Tonight a Shop Class Podcast O.G. is on the show!!! Matthew Barbercheck joins us to highlight his Capable Maker app. Barabercheck has teamed up with Harbor Freight Tools for Schools to create an app that will help relieve the pain points of project documentation and distribution for project base...
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4th Annual Wall Assembly Competition!!
This week's special guest is Connor Malloy will be LAUNCHING the the 2023 Wall Assembly Competition (Student Edition). This is a great opportunity to have your students participate and be involved with some of the residential construction industry's best of the best professionals. Jump over to…
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Brittney Carbone, Art teacher and Epoxy resin artist
Brittney has been fortunate to do what she loves as a career. Since 2014, She has worked in the Greater Boston area as a middle school art teacher. As a Woburn native, it is quite special that Brittney gets to work in a neighboring town to where she grew up. After completing her masters, she...
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Tormach CNC Milling Mahcine in the Classroom?
Tonight's Shop Class Podcast topic is Tormach CNC machines in the classroom. Our Guest lineup is huge. We got 3 teachers, 2 sales reps, and an educational representative from Tormach. Leif Sorgule, shop teacher from upstate New York Matt Garrera, shop teacher from New Jersey. Dave Richards, shop...
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Eddy Borysewicz, Revolt Systems
This week we have Eddy Borysewicz of Revolt Systems joins us to talk shop and what it's like to build the world's fastest electric car. https://revoltsystems.com/ https://www.teamvesco.com/ Originally published on November 14, 2022
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Harbor Freight Tools for Schools "Prize for Teaching Excellence" will award $1.5 million!
Go to https://hftforschoolsprize.org/ The Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence awards $1.5 million to 25 outstanding skilled trades teachers and programs in U.S. public high schools. Tae Kang is the show to talk about the 2023 prize and application process. Don't be...
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State of the art, State Tech Education Conferences
State of the art, State Tech Education Conferences Originally published on November 7, 2022
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Celebrating Harbor Freight Tools for Schools 2022 Winners
In this episode we interview 2 of The Harbor Freight Tools for Schools 2022 Award winners. Matt Blomquist and Leif Sorgule. To Kick-off the episode we have Tae Kang, program director for Harbor Freight Tools for Schools. As you may know, Matt has been on a roll bringing awareness to the shop...
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Catskill Maker Camp post-game 2022
Maker Camp 2022 was so good we had to have a post-game. It's a recap with a Roundtable discussion about how good make a camp was and what we're going to do next year. Originally published on October 15, 2022
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Catskill Maker Camp 2022 Pre-game!
"The Catskill Mountain Maker Camp is a gathering of curious, creative people who like to learn and share what they can do. It is a place where creators can show their work, learn new skills/techniques, and meet like-minded makers. It encompasses a gathering of artisans, educators,...
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George Vondriska, Cabinet making, lathe turning, CNC operation
George Vondriska has been teaching woodworking since 1986. In addition to running his own woodworking school, George has taught woodworking courses for woodworking shows, woodworking schools, retail stores, the U.S. Peace Corps, the Pentagon, Northwest Airlines, and Andersen Window. George is the...
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Kevin Lieberman, Harley-Davidson software engineer
Kevin Lieberman, Harley-Davidson software engineer. Wednesday September 14th on the shop class podcast. This week we have Kevin Lieberman, Harley-Davidson software engineer. He got his humble beginnings working as a software engineer. "I wrote software on ancient DOS based computers that answered...
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Mark Brems, Electric Porsche 914 Builder
Tonight Mark Brems joins us tonight to talk more about converting cars into electric. Follow Marks EV conversion story at... https://allmylinks.com/mcbrems Originally published on August 12, 2022
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Thomas Baisch, inventor of the FrogPod
Tonight Thomas Baisch the inventor of the FrogPod joins us!! Tonight join the discussion of inventing, manufacturing, Kick Starting, and just thinking outside of the box. Solve a problem, save the world!! Originally published on August 3, 2022
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Matthew Barbercheck, Capable Maker update
Tonight Mr. Barbercheck joins us to catch up and let us in on what's happening with Capable Maker project!! Join us tonight!! Hope everyone's summer is going awesome! Originally published on July 28, 2022
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John Stack, Multi-disciplinary Engineer
John Stack, Multi-disciplinary Engineer Originally published on July 21, 2022
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Michael Bream, EV West, Electric Hot Rods
Michael Bream is the founder and owner of EV West. It is an electric vehicle parts supplier that fits the category of a hot rod shop. Michael uses the spirit of DIY and racing to offer solutions for classic cars turn Electric. In most cases, the electric parts will double or triple the horsepower...
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JT Kostman, Artificial Intelligence and Motorcycle Mechanic
This week's guest is JT Kostman, artificial intelligence expert extraordinaire, Wednesday June 22nd 8 to 10 p.m. Eastern on the shop class podcast. This might be the world's most interesting man. JT stated his career as a team leader of a Scout Sniper Recon Team with the United States Special...
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Land Speed records and Summer Projects
In this episode, we talked with Greg Quirin, a shop teacher coordinator in San Diego County. He has a great YouTube channel that covers the land speed racing team and engine designer Pete Aardema and Kevin Braun. https://www.youtube.com/c/GregQuirin/videos We also spoke with shop teachers about...
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Jim Johnsen the Auto and Metal Shop teacher at Long Beach New York High School
This week's guest is Jim Johnsen the Auto and Metal Shop teacher at Long Beach New York High School. Jim grew up working with his hands, surfing and riding BMX and has been teaching shop for the last 17 years and brings that rad attitude to the shop class. Each year him and his students restore a...
About this show
Did you have shop class? That is the first question we ask every guest to the Shop Class Podcast. Joins us Wednesday night 8-10PM Eastern on a Google meet. We have guests ranging from the Building trades to NASA scientists to Hot Rod Builders.Speaking of special guest, if you haven't been able to join us on the live show, go to our new YouTube Channel (SUBSCRIBE) and check out some of our past episodes. We've been very fortunate to have some great guest covering some awesome topics from robotics and 3D printing to welding and building go-karts.
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Ron (Mr.G) Grosinger
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