Foundry in a Box

By admin_wmafs on Nov 21, 2025 in Foundry in a Box |

Thanks to Andy, John, Laurie, Randy, Len, Marty, Don, Scott, Bruce and Bill. Bill joins us for the first time. He had 30 years in the foundry business. Don has 50 years in the industry. He also is a Real Estate Broker. Also a Rotary volunteer and many other  service projects. We did a Foundry in a Box demonstration for two of Jeremy’s engineering classes. The students made their own 3d printed patterns and they casted them. Jeremy has a sand station in his classroom so they test their patterns out to see if they work or not. If not, they try again to get ready for us. We also hosted a special needs class, an art class and a construction class. We got to demonstrate for about 70...

By admin_wmafs on Nov 13, 2025 in Foundry in a Box |

Thanks to Andy, John, Laurie, Reg, Scott, Len, Bruce, Randy and special guest Joe from the Foundry Education Foundation for volunteering Wednesday Nov12th at Spring Lake Adult Education in Spring Lake, Mi. Rob and Tracy invited us in to show about 16 students our Foundry in a Box demonstration. Students picked out their pattern, packed sand around the pattern, poured tin into their pattern and got their casting to finish at the finishing station. We discussed careers, salaries and the most needed jobs coming up in the next five years. Later that night Andy and Scott went to Covenant Life Church in Grand Haven to help build bunk beds that end up going to those in need in the area. Randy also volunteers at the American Legion and Covenant Life Church. Len also volunteers at other local veterans organizations. Bruce volunteers at St. Johns Church in Grand...

By admin_wmafs on Nov 6, 2025 in Foundry in a Box |

Thanks to Andy, John, Laurie, Randy, Len, Marty, and Scott for volunteering today at Coopersville Middle School in Coopersville Michigan. Teacher Jamie Stahl invited us into 4 of his classrooms and we saw about 60+ students. We have been working with Jamie for over 10 years. We brought our fishing lure pattern with us as well as snap rings and the snap ring tool. We were able to put the rings on the casting. Students will have to go paint up their lure and buy the size hook they want on their lure. We also added another piece of jewelry to our pattern collection today. We also brought the jumper rings to put on the casting in the classroom. We wanted to make sure the student could actually put the jewelry on a chain without going to the store. Some students put their casting on their chain in class today. You will see that in the pictures. We had one student with a medallion on a chain. A couple of us said (hey, we can cast that). So we did. She was so thrilled to have a duplicate. Check the photo out....

By admin_wmafs on Oct 31, 2025 in Foundry in a Box |

Thanks to Andy, John, Laurie, Randy, Marty, Scott, Beth, Joy, Bruce, Randy and Len. Also volunteering from Nugent Sand in Muskegon were Alissia and Jack. From CWC in Muskegon we had Carola and Joe. Ryan from the Muskegon Career Tech Center invited us in to present to his two Engineering and Problem Solving Classes. We had, I think, one of the best collaborative FiB’s ever. Alex, the Principle of the Tech Center informed the volunteers of the things that they were working on and how we can fit into those plans, the volunteers to teach metal castings, and Nugent and CWC to support the efforts to get students trained and hired into local companies. Just another Foundry Fun Friday in West Michigan. We have the best...

By admin_wmafs on Oct 28, 2025 in Foundry in a Box |

Thanks to Andy, Kris, Kennedy, Scott, Don, Al, Bruce, Randy, Len and special guest Riley from Linamar Structures in Fruitport, Mi. We did a foundry in a box demonstration at Fruitport Middle School in Fruitport, Mi. Mr. Thommen invited us in to show about 45 students in his woodshop classes a little bit about metal castings. Riley is in the Human Resource Department at Linamar Structures right around the corner from the Middle School. She was able to talk with students and answer any questions they may of had. This is about our 15th year working with the Middle School. Kris is on the school board for Fruitport. Kennedy is Kris’s daughter and has been helping now for a few years whenever she...

By admin_wmafs on Oct 15, 2025 in Foundry in a Box |

Thanks to Andy, John, Laurie, Marty, Reg, Randy, Len and Rob for volunteering at Charles Hackley Middle School in Muskegon, Mi on Oct 13th 2025. Chauncy Williams invited us out to assist with their advanced manufacturing classes. We had about 60 total students. Our volunteers got to see the advanced manufacturing lab. We got to use the virtual welding station. That was pretty cool. Other items in the room for middle schooler to learn was robotics, 3d printing and CNC...