From Classroom to Manufacturing Floor: Teachers Build Real-World Manufacturing Skills at Georgia Tech
June 22, 2026
By Anna Akins
For three days in June, a dozen middle and high school teachers from rural Georgia traded their classrooms for the Woodruff School’s Montgomery Machining Mall, a machine shop where students and researchers design and build custom parts. Instead of grading papers, they cut metal on bandsaws, lathes, and milling machines while learning skills they’ll take back to their students this fall.