Published 5/11/2022

Hypertherm Education Program Awards 12 Schools

Hypertherm's Spark Something Great program, designed to provide real-world manufacturing training to students, has selected 2022's award winners.

Workforce Development

Edited by: Jenny Rush

Former Senior Managing Editor, Modern Machine Shop

Photo Credit: Hypertherm

Hypertherm, a U.S.-based manufacturer of industrial cutting systems and software, has named the recipients of its 2022 Spark Something Great educational grant.

Now in its eighth year, the Spark Something Great grant program is designed to support the next generation of metalworkers by ensuring students train on the equipment found in workplaces. Each of the twelve schools will receive a Hypertherm Powermax45 XP plasma system and in-person training from a Hypertherm industrial cutting expert.

Twelve programs were selected from a pool of 110 applicants, representing public schools, vocational schools and colleges from throughout the United States and Canada.

This year’s recipients are Bluejacket Public Schools in Bluejacket, Okla.; Cayuga High School in Tennessee Colony, Texas; DRIVE One TechCenter in Roseville, Mich.; Minico High School in Rupert, Idaho; Mount Sentinel Secondary School in South Slocan, B.C.; Normal West High School in Normal, Ill.; O'Rourke Middle School in Burnt Hills, N.Y.; Rothsay Public School in Rothsay, Minn.; Southeast Region Career and Technology Center in Wahpeton, N.D.; Sudan Independent School District in Sudan, Texas; Tupelo Public Schools in Tupelo, Okla.; and Winona Senior High School in Winona, Minn.

In addition to its annual grant program, Hypertherm provides educational discounts to schools and students, and offers educators its Plasma Cutting Technology: Theory and Practice curriculum as a free download. To date, thousands of teachers have acquired the lesson plans helping standardize the teaching of plasma cutting to students in North America and beyond. Hypertherm also offers ProNest for Education, a free program that places ProNest CAD/CAM nesting software in schools using CNC applications.

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