This week I was very excited and found everything we discussed interesting as I really enjoy woodworking. I agree with everything we talked about regarding safety. Having spend nearly my entire high school experience in a woodshop, I understand how important it is to make sure everyone not only can memorize the rules, but understands how important they are. A story I didn't get to tell in class was about a student who was cutting on the bandsaw, they were following all the rules however it was but to another student they were injured. Another student opened up the window causing wind to blow sawdust into the student on the bandsaws eyes. He used his arm to shield himself and in the process touched it to the running bandsaw. Luckily his injury wasn't very bad but, that all could have been prevented by the other student being more aware. (my professor said this was actually the only injury to happen under her watch in all of her teaching)
I am incredibly excited to continue the project with my group. I really like the idea of improving upon something already existing rather than like most basic woodworking classes where they have you build a variation of a simple project. I am also excited to properly use the CAFEQUE properly for the first time since as I had talked about in my other reflections, I have informally and unintentionally used it many times.