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Manufacturing in West Virginia
Manufacturing in West Virginia
As part of the program, our girls were invited to meet some of the featured West Virginia Manufacturers that work with the Explore program. The Companies spoke about their businesses and then gave the girls challenges to flex their engineering muscles and creativity.
Through Explore: the New Manufacturing, our Girls STEM class is teamed up with FCX Systems in Morgantown to produce a video and compete against other Middle Schools as they aim to promote manufacturing in the Mountain State. Explore helps students and manufacturers find commonalities. It helps students get a up-close and personal experience with cutting-edge manufacturers and students get see that we have respected and competetive companies in our own backyard. Check back often to this page to see the girls learn about FCX and produce a video to reflect the high-tech converters they produce. Our aim is to produce the best video and make FCX proud.
Laser Cutting and Engraving
Laser Cutting and Engraving
The Girls watched as steel was loaded into a 60 KW Fiber Laser to be cut for housing of the converters.
Logistics and Shipping
Logistics and Shipping
Christine Miller (President of FCX) listens with the girls, as the head of shipping and logistics explains that overseas shipping requires special wood for crates to prevent invasive insects.
Assembly
Assembly
An FCX employee explains that the converters are completely built, wired, programmed, and assembled on site. Communication, detailed focus, and precision all help make FCX converters the choice for the military.
The Video Process
The Video Process
Once our students visited FCX Systems in Morgantown and took at quick trip to the Morgantown Municipal Airport, our students began the process of gathering information, developing questions, conducting interviews, taking pictures and videos, and coming up with a concept to showcase FCX Systems and their products that are used in all 7 continents. (Yes, even Antarctica.) A Special Thank You goes out to Mountain Aviation Group and the Morgantown Municipal Airport for warmly inviting us to get footage at their facilities!
Waiting to go into the hangar to begin filming.
Discussion of angles and filming for scenes.
Quiet on the set! Students set the scene and act out their parts.
You have to have a little fun as you practice.
The Finished Product
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