Helping the community
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Calumet High School students, from left, Mark Sandmon, Mike Hollenbeck and Adam Bryce demonstrate how the jig developed by the students in Eric Rundman’s metal shop class is used to bend electrical metal tubing used to make ice-skating aids for young children.
CALUMET — For Eric Rundman and the students in his metal shop class at Calumet High School, taking a good idea and making it their own is not only a good experience for them, but it also helps the community. That good idea is a walker-like metal frame used to help very young children learn how to ice skate. Rundman said his class began making the skating aids at the beginning of the school year in September. “We thought it was a good project for the community,” he said. The design they use is by the late Ray Berghefer of Laurium, Rundman said. The class took on the project after a parent asked if students could make the skating aids. When he first saw the skating aid, Rundman said it look pretty straightforward and he thought it wouldn’t be too difficult to build, but that changed once they started working. “We found out it wasn’t as easy as it looks,” he said.
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