I saw a wall space that was nicely framed and at the end of a public hallway. It seemed like a great place for a bulletin board. If I build one and put it there, I think community might be strengthened.

Saw this in a Maker magazine article. Definitely want to incorporate this into shop curriculum. It will be important in the future to have local shops that can fix things. Good design accounts for fixing. And Fixing incorporates a wide variety of skills that can be fostered early in education.
I plan on hanging these posters in my classroom. Now if I can only get a large format printed? Download posters in 6 languages and print your own locally!
http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

Plumbob's Industrial Arts vocational model meets the needs of public school districts to offer Career and Technical skills based training. Plumbob aligns Industry with Education; the model builds capacity in school shops, trains industry professionals to work with students and schools, and is an open collaborative platform for business and education to work together.

The Industrial Arts combines one's unique understanding of the built environment with the practical skills to design and build things.

I am in the initial stages of developing a reconstruction effort at Planet Granite in Sunnyvale. Planet Granite is a rock climbing gym and they are removing a whole section of their outdoor climbing area and I am attempting to save some of the structural steel to use in an educational project. This is the homepage for this project, and will closely link to the educational component on Plumbob.org/Education.