Fundraising efforts by Industrial Technology Program-School-Based-Enterprise
Over $100,000 raised through student effort
The Industrial Technology program has addressed one of the major problems facing programs today, funding. How to generate money needed to maintain a program that requires lots of equipment, tooling, and materials. If you have visited any of the other pages on this site you will see that we also receive equipment, materials as in-kind donations, but most of the extra money (other than what is budgeted by the school) to maintain the Industrial Technology Program comes from the "School-Based-Enterprise." We run the business in our Production 1 & 2 class.
We have found a market in the Kitchen Cabinet Industry and high end wood products. We measure and design a set of kitchen cabinets for a customer. We then build and install them. This not only brings in extra money to the program, it also gives the student an excellent experience in the real life pressures of designing, manufacturing, delivering, and working with the public. The student enjoys selecting materials needed to build a kitchen cabinet, building the cabinets and then installing it in a customer's home.
We have found a market in the Kitchen Cabinet Industry and high end wood products. We measure and design a set of kitchen cabinets for a customer. We then build and install them. This not only brings in extra money to the program, it also gives the student an excellent experience in the real life pressures of designing, manufacturing, delivering, and working with the public. The student enjoys selecting materials needed to build a kitchen cabinet, building the cabinets and then installing it in a customer's home.
Below are are images that are representative of student fundraising efforts.
Above images-students working on First Christian Church cabinet job in Tuscola, IL
Above images-Cabinet job in Hoffman Estates, IL.
Above text-Kitchen cabinet job in Newman, IL