Skills USA teaches high school students how to screen print as part of the regular curriculum. The goal is to have them ready for an entry level position when they graduate. I've been involved through SGIA last few years (on the national level) and have organized the state level competition this year. Next step is to support the teachers in my metro area with few visits, some education and continued education opportunities (one of the teachers is coming to work at the shop for a week to get the first hand experience of what it's like in the "real world".
This is an opportunity for us as a community to help out the schools and ensure the kids going through the program are learning the proper way of doing it. Lot of the teachers only have very basic information and in many cases students are being taught the hobby way of doing things. It would be of great help to us as a community (of screen printers) to teach the kids good commercial practices so when they take the jobs they are actually ready to go on the day one.
'looking for suggestions on how we can help and any offers to visit the schools to help them out.
pierre
p.s. right now NM school (near El Paso) is looking for help and Michigan is trying to set up state competition.
