Foundry in a Box

By admin_wmafs on Apr 28, 2026 in Foundry in a Box |

Thanks to Andy, John, Laurie, Scott, Beth, Don, Randy, Bill, Al, and Reg for volunteering at the Muskegon Montessori School Academy for Environmental Change Foundry in a Box demonstration. Andria Yost hosted us on Monday April 27th 2026. Andria herself is a recent recipient of the U.S. EPA Presidential Innovation award for Environmental Educators. This is given to recognize the Teaching and Inspiring the next generation of environmental leaders. We had first graders to 8th graders. We had 80+ students and staff attend the demonstrations. Lots of the castings had the ability to have a hole drilled in them. We provided the jewelry jumpers and Andria provided the string so students could make them into a necklace. Markers were used to paint the castings...

By admin_wmafs on Dec 29, 2025 in Foundry in a Box |

Thanks to Andy, John, Laurie, Randy, Scott, Beth, Joy, Martha, Marty, Len and special guest Adam from B&L Information Systems for volunteering at Spring Lake High School in Spring Lake, Mi. Ms. Johnson invited us in this year for a demo in front of about 110 students. We were having such a good time soon other students from other classes were coming over. It was great. We mix cinnamon and clove in with the melting tin to create an apple pie scent that you can smell in the...

By admin_wmafs on Dec 17, 2025 in Foundry in a Box |

Thanks to Andy, John, Laurie, Randy, Len, Scott, Reg, Marty and Don from our local AFS West Michigan Chapter for doing a Foundry in a Box demonstration at Central High School in Grand Haven, Mi on Dec 12th 2025. Colleen invited us in again this year. She is always trying to do something hands on for her students. We were joined by Riley Bartelt from the HR department at Linamar Structures in Fruitport Michigan to talk with students. We also had Justin Brownlee from the admissions department at Muskegon Community College to talk with students and hand out information and giveaways....

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....