A few of those students recently returned from the SkillsUSA state petition

The HVEDC's work includes forming a partnership between SUNY New Paltz and the 3-D printing pany MakerBot to create an innovation center at that college. Gottlieb said the Hudson Valley's strength in the 3-D printing revolution is its abundance of design and creative professionals."This is a technology that could work anywhere," said Gottlieb. "It can create a new generation of individual manufacturers that we haven't seen probably in decades, and that's always exciting to me."The metal shop at Reed High School is a lot like the island of 'Pirates of the Caribbean Fame,' housing the Black Pearl's pirated riches it's known only to those who already know where it is.China Germany-style Drill Machine Vise suppliesSeasoned students can be spotted easily maneuvering around large machines that pose immediate threat to first-time visitors to the shop near the back of the east Sparks school. A few of those students recently returned from the SkillsUSA state petition, pitting Nevada's best high schoolers in workforce and trade skills such as welding fabricating, sheet metal working and precision machining. Reed juniors Eryk Allen and Kelsey Hicks both returned with state championship medals in precision machining and sheet metal working, respectively, clinching spots in the national petition taking place June 23-28 in Kansas City, Mo. Both students work out of the Enterprise Project Signature Academy at Reed under long-time instructor Timmothy Conley, who said both students deserved their victories in Las Vegas in March. "Our kids did great," Conley said.Precision Vises supplies "These kids all have the talent to podium finish at a national petition, but they have to have the motivation and the effort."Conley said class time for students in the program is limited to only 90 minutes a day and petition time ranges between two and four hours at the state level, and up to eight hours at the national level. Both students who brought home the gold worked primarily after school and on weekends to hone their skills, which Conley said es with pros and cons as a teacher."Offering all these various areas for students to pete is difficult but it has its advantages at the same time," Conley said. "We do get to go out and do these petitions, but some schools don't teach the same programs as others or they have fewer programs. We have an area where we can do just about everything and it is nice.