Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering

Technology Education teacher & CTE instructor at Trinity High School. Passionate about digital fabrication & engineering design

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

After trying our new "Adv. Digital Fab" course last year, I wanted to add new content to my curriculum I wrote in 2021. It's now available on our school website to share w/ the #FabLab network!!
https://t.co/Pt6qveGPpL
#FabLabNetwork @TRINITY_MLUCAS @PADeptofEd @fablab @FabLabHub

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

1st group of Intro to Tech students finished learning how to layout, shear, bend, & spot weld their own @pitscoed toolbox! 🧰
#sheetmetal #toolbox #metalworking
@dr_zebrasky @TRINITY_MLUCAS

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

My Metalworking class adding the final twist to their 1st forging project of a plant hanger 🙌 ..Made from 3/8" square bar
#Metal #Metalworking #forging #blacksmithing #forge #manufacturing @TRINITY_MLUCAS @dr_zebrasky

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

@TRINITY_MLUCAS @dr_zebrasky

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

Attending another Educational Partnership meeting with Heartland Fabrication. Seeing their new expansion projects & workforce development needs from local schools in order to weld & construct river barges.
#welding #manufacturing #robotics @TRINITY_MLUCAS @dr_zebrasky

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

Field trip day for our engineering & robotics classes! Visiting IGS Industries in custom part manufacturing, who also donates to Trinity's @BotsIQSWPA team. Learning about how they operate robotic automation, CNC mills, & other industrial machines.
@TRINITY_MLUCAS @dr_zebrasky

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

My 1st lesson on Trinity's new #tormach CNC lathe! Teaching students how to program a lathe with InventorCAM, along with machine operations to produce a ballpeen hammer head. Last picture compares our new design to the old one we made manually for 30+ years!
@TRINITY_MLUCAS

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

Introducing sheet metal to my metalworking class by having them properly layout, shear, bend, & weld a simple "metal tray" design.
#metalworking #metalshop
@TRINITY_MLUCAS @dr_zebrasky

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

Getting our 1st batch of aluminum parts casted for my Advanced Metalworking class! Students will now spend the following weeks #machining individual parts to make their own rifle rest. #metalshop #sandcasting #metal #manufacturing #foundry @TRINITY_MLUCAS @dr_zebrasky

[U. S. Steel @U_S_Steel]

Strong. Scrappy. Storied.

Two Pittsburgh originals are coming together in a new way. The U. S. Steel logo is coming to @penguins helmets beginning with the 2026-27 season.

It just fits.

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

@BotsIQSWPA @dr_zebrasky @TRINITY_MLUCAS Our students squeezing in a few more sessions in learning metallurgy & welding!

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

Great time at @BotsIQSWPA annual teacher professional development day! Ms. Fleming and I brought students to learn more on industrial robotics in #Manufacturing, autodesk CAD/CAM, & practicing more SMAW & flux-core welding.
#manufacturing #botsiq @dr_zebrasky @TRINITY_MLUCAS

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

https://t.co/EkhAIweFHo
At Fab26, I got to meet some of the folks from @Tormach who asked if they could interview me on the spot! Really grateful to be on their channel just to share&promote what we're doing at @TrinityAreaSD.
@TRINITY_MLUCAS @dr_zebrasky @BotsIQSWPA @PADeptofEd

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

A few engineering design workshops in making both paper rocket models, and assemblies of 3d printed/lasercut pinball machine models.
#FabLab #Fab26

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

1st time I've seen the SLS 3D printing process in person. @formlabs #Fab26

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

Super cool to see both @ShopBotTools & @tormach sharing their stories, and their future collaborations/partnerships with the Fab Foundation network.

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

Watching some really cool @xToolOfficial demonstrations of an apparel printer that prints colored images to a film for heat pressing fabrics, along with their UV laser that prints colored images onto harder materials like wood.
#FAB26

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

Day 3 workshops learning about milling PCBs, Milling maching vibration tests, and using both a UV laser to print in glass, and a fiber laser to mark metal from @xToolOfficial
#FAB26 #laser #FabLab #laserengraving #machining #PCB #xtool

[Dr. Michael Lucas @TRINITY_MLUCAS]

This Western Pa. school district found a new way to address a shortage of substitute teachers https://t.co/NV2wA3zA2F

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

Blown away by all of the amazing college resources here at the Center for Bits & Atoms where FabLabs started in MIT's @medialab. From plastics engineering space, welding and CNC machine shops, electronics stations, graphics and more!!

[Mr. Prentice Manufacturing & Engineering @BrandonPrentice]

Learning about embroidery machines, using Solidworks software to fabricate a pickleball paddle, & 3D printing candy in today's hands-on workshops! #FAB26 #FabLab #3dPrinting #Solidworks @dr_zebrasky