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Article: O'Brien students gain experience
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- April 10, 2007
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A Milford-based manufacturer is drawing on the skills of drafting
students at Emmett O'Brien Technical High School for computer-aided
drafting and design work.
And the students in turn are getting some real world work
experience without leaving the classroom.
Through a partnership with Aerial Lift Inc. of Connecticut in
Milford, about 18 drafting students in grades 10-12 are re-drawing
manual drawings to a CAD format for the company, drafting teacher
Charles Haynes said.
"It's great (because) the kids get an opportunity to do something
that's real," Haynes said. "We've completed one contract, and we're
doing a second one."
Aerial Lift manufactures heavy-lift devices that are mounted on ...