{"id":5014,"date":"2013-10-12T08:51:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T12:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=5014"},"modified":"2013-10-12T08:51:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T12:51:22","slug":"kewaskum-high-school-womens-engineering-program-first-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2013\/10\/kewaskum-high-school-womens-engineering-program-first-in-wisconsin.html","title":{"rendered":"Kewaskum High School Women\u2019s Engineering Program First in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Kewaskum-High-School-Women-In-Engineering1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5018\" alt=\"Kewaskum High School Women In Engineering\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Kewaskum-High-School-Women-In-Engineering1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Kewaskum-High-School-Women-In-Engineering1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Kewaskum-High-School-Women-In-Engineering1-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Kewaskum-High-School-Women-In-Engineering1.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Problem: There is a lack of women entering engineering and manufacturing fields.<\/p>\n<p>Solution: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/kewaskumschools.org\/moerchen-technology-engineering\/women-in-engineering\">Kewaskum Women In Engineering<\/a> high school program.<\/p>\n<p>Kewaskum High School is leading the way in the state of Wisconsin with its program developed by Technology and Education teachers <b>Patrick Moerchen<\/b> and <b>Bryan Puls <\/b>and supported by Wisconsin manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Kewaskum-HS-Women-in-Engineering-Curriculum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kewaskum HS Women in Engineering Curriculum\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Kewaskum-HS-Women-in-Engineering-Curriculum.jpg\" width=\"219\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The class focuses on three main topics which will include a History of Women in Engineering\/Manufacturing, current topics and post-high school education, and mechanical design using SolidWorks software.<\/p>\n<p>The program explores new types of technologies used in Wisconsin manufacturing.\u00a0 Kondex Corporation of Lomira and Kohler Corporation of Kohler pledged support.<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>The mechanical design class is articulated with Moraine Park Technical College.\u00a0 Patrick has achieved Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA) and will be part of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Kewaskum High School is offering high school credit, college credit, and industry certification all within one class. This integrated class plan was designed by these technology teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Their story was featured in the\u00a0<a title=\"First High School All Women's Manufacturing Class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/business\/kewaskum-high-school-launches-all-female-engineering-class-b99101148z1-224720152.html\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Journal<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We thank Patrick and his first all-women\u2019s class for sharing with the SolidWorks Community.\u00a0 Marie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: There is a lack of women entering engineering and manufacturing fields. Solution: \u00a0Kewaskum Women In Engineering high school program. Kewaskum High School is leading the way in the state of Wisconsin with its program developed by Technology and Education<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2013\/10\/kewaskum-high-school-womens-engineering-program-first-in-wisconsin.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4184,4183,5203,5206,5211,1],"tags":[4016,3940,4308,3931,4938],"class_list":["post-5014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cad-instructor","category-cad-teacher","category-current-affairs","category-stem-teacher","category-technology-2","category-uncategorized","tag-3d-cad","tag-design","tag-manufacturing","tag-solidworks","tag-women"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5021,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions\/5021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}