Gahanna Lincoln High School teacher Alex Paul (right) gets instruction on how to use the Yaskawa Motoman Robotic Arm inside the MIT Fab Lab from Steve Holland, a manager for Yaskawa, in a ceremony in Pickerington Sept. 9, when two of the Fab Labs arrived in central Ohio.
Gahanna-Jefferson high school and middle school students have access to new tools to explore career paths, thanks to a new MIT fabrication laboratory known as the “Fab Lab.”
The lab, financed through a $750,000 grant from the Ohio Department of Education’s Straight A Fund, is mobile and will be shared among district buildings.
Gahanna-Jefferson is one of several Franklin County school districts participating in the Innovation Generation initiative, which is part of the national Pathways to Prosperity Network that seeks to establish a career pathway in advanced manufacturing/robotics, business logistics, health care and information technology.
