META24 WORKFORCE LAB · GRADED TO THE CORE · PROJECT-BASED · A COURSE IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN & MANUFACTURING · MIDDLE SCHOOL · UPPER SCHOOL · GRADE 6–12 · 0.25 CREDIT · META24 LAB COMPETENCIES
Manufacturing Operations
The Course · Operations · in The Fab Shop · Industrial & 3D
2 weeks of The Fab Shop · Industrial & 3D: Quality Control — Proving It’s Right · Predictive Maintenance — Fixing It Before It Breaks
The weeks are the course’s own, read from the lab; the catalog pads the last weeks with the capstone and the floor so the course fills a whole term.
THE MIX · HOW MUCH OF EACH CORE SUBJECT THIS COURSE CARRIES · IN ORDER
READING & WRITINGMATHCODING & AITECHNOLOGY & TRADESSCIENCEART & DESIGNHISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & HUMANITIESBUSINESS & ENTERPRISE
The squares are a picture of a course — how much of each core subject its own rooms carry, read from the rooms’ text — never a score of a student. Every course in a lab is graded to the core across the board; the squares say which columns it feeds most.
WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
- Making a part is half the job; PROVING it’s right is the other half
- A machine that breaks down mid-production is a disaster — lost output, scrapped parts, emergency repairs at the worst time.
AT A GLANCE · 9 WEEKS
Q1 Quality Control — Proving It’s Right → The floor — The assignments · weeks 1–9
ALSO IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN & MANUFACTURING · THE FAB SHOP · INDUSTRIAL & 3D
A quarter
9 WEEKS · ONE QUARTERQuarter 1 · Quality Control — Proving It’s Right → The floor
WEEKS 1–9 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 1Quality Control — Proving It’s RightTHE COURSE · OPERATIONS
Making a part is half the job; PROVING it’s right is the other half. Quality control is measuring against a spec — but the deep lesson is that tolerance costs money (tighter = more expensive, so you spec only as tight…
WK 2Predictive Maintenance — Fixing It Before It Breaks
A machine that breaks down mid-production is a disaster — lost output, scrapped parts, emergency repairs at the worst time.
WK 3–9The floor
The floor: the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
The assignments · weeks 1–9
The question. What does The Course ask you to be able to do by week 2?
The make. Every week's assignment and the quiz as practice: Quality Control — Proving It’s Right · Predictive Maintenance — Fixing It Before It Breaks · The floor
The evidence. Handed in through The Course inside The Fab Shop · Industrial & 3D, kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
A course is a quarter, a semester or a year — nine, eighteen or thirty-six weeks — a project a quarter. Offered as the year, a semester or a quarter, it is the same course seen through a window. A lab is a family: its year, each of its tracks as a course, and its rooms. The evidence is what a student hands in through the room; the Report reads it from there. Nothing in the catalog is a grade.
THE PASS · THIS COURSE AND EVERY OTHER ONE
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