Mifco manufactures Industrial Melting and Heat Treat Furnaces and Accessories.  They have a new website - check it out!  You'll find everything you need to know for ordering supplies, new equipment, etc.

Nida offers a complete line of training equipment and courseware for electronics including basic electronics, avionics, automotive, communications, computer repair, microprocessors, fiber optics, and much more.

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Roland ASD provides us with 3D Mills, Scanners, and Vinyl Cutters.

Scientific Laser Connection  is a producer of a wide variety of laser education modules, including introduction to lasers, laser holography, audio and video laser/satellite communication systems, forensics, laser optics and more.

Synergistic CareerPorts are high school curricula in which students learn and apply core curriculum content within a possible career pathway. Each CareerPort is a nine-week, hands-on immersion into a nationally recognized career cluster area. These self-paced, student-directed curricula are delivered online, making them accessible to students from anywhere the Internet is available.

Looking forward, moving ahead

CareerPorts are a virtual internship, encouraging students to become independent learners while providing them with real-world career experiences. During this “internship,” students learn and apply core content knowledge in the context of the CareerPorts’ career area.

 Synergistic Missions/A Division of Pitsco, Inc.  Synergistic Missions is a Math, Science and Technology program. It is a hands-on/minds-on cooperative learning system for all students in grades kindergarten through six.

 Synergistic Modules/A Division of Pitsco, Inc. Synergistic Modules provides middle schools with self-sufficient workstations with students working in pairs to complete each learning module. Over 80 modules come under the categories of Technology, Family and Consumer Science, Science, Information Technology, and Mathematics. The structured framework enables the instructor to spend more time working with students.

 Synergistic Suites/A Division of Pitsco, Inc., creators of Synergistic Systems, is a new approach to teaching some of the most important - and most difficult - concepts that high schools are challenged to teach. Each Suite uses multimedia instructions and theme-based experiences to mix careers, teamwork, communication, critical thinking, and quality management into nine weeks of classes.

VX Corporation is a major 3D drafting/design program.  It can be purchased as an end-to-end solution or just for design, modeling, mold making or CAM.  In a recent presentation to an instructor who teaches or has taught many CAD/CAM programs, he noted that most of the other programs he taught could do some of the various design shortcuts as well as VX could.  But when comparing the whole package, VX seemed to do everything well.  Some programs could do some things and some could do other things, but none could do everything unless you paid at least five times the price.  In addition, VX can recognize and work with .stl files and scanned point cloud images, making VX a great companion to a hand-held ZScanner or output easily to a ZPrinter (see Z Corporation below).

 xlaFORM (Pronounced: ak-sel-a-Form) is an Automated Infiltration Post-processing Solution for Z Corporation Prototyping Machines.  This allows for complete resin infusion throughout the part geometry regardless of size.  This has previously been impossible with the widely used room temperature curing products for infiltration, such as cyanoacrylate and epoxy.

Z Corporation - Rapid Prototyping has suddenly become affordable due to MIT and this new and fast-growing company from Burlington, MA. This company has pioneered a ZPrinter that actually can make 3D models out of inexpensive materials like plaster and corn starch. Every CAD lab can now afford to make models as an output from their modeling software. This makes models in a very short time by printing on layers of powder. If you design a ball bearing, for instance, you can print it out in 3D and remove it from the excess powder (which is recyclable) and spin the bearing without any further assembly. The machine can produce both mechanical and architectural models. Industry is using these printers in state-of-the-art CAD labs for design, for making plaster molds for plastic prototyping, for molds for aluminum castings (instead of sand castings), for architectural models to sell unique designs, and the medical field is using them to rehearse medical procedures before performing unusual operations. (The recent separation of twins joined at the head was performed only after CT scans were taken of the bone structure and models were printed on a Z Corp printer from the scans so the surgeons could practice on a perfect replica of this one-of-a-kind cranial orientation.)

Now, also available, is the ZScanner™ 700 - the first self-positioning, real-time surfacing, 3D Laser Scanner.  Scan any object in the tightest spaces and do it in one continuous scan.