Industrial Technology Project

Industrial Technology will teach 4-Her’s about the design, building, and use of engines, machines, equipment, and structures to prepare them and provide them with the skills needed for 21st-century jobs.

• Classify small engine types
• Identify internal small engine parts
• Make simple electrical repairs
• Enhance knowledge on sanding and getting a good finish
• Join two pieces of metal

• Identify small engines by sound
• Identify and use diagnostic tools
• Choose the correct part for a circuit
• Discover joining, clamping, and connecting techniques
• Use a cutting torch

Check homes of family/friends for electricity hazards, repair metal items for a local nonprofit, repair furniture for people in need, do a small engine tune-up day with proceeds going to a local charity.

Check homes of family/friends for electricity hazards, repair metal items for a local nonprofit, repair furniture for people in need, do a small engine tune-up day with proceeds going to a local charity.

Start a lawn mowing business, repair items and charge a fee, create simple activity kits to teach kids about electricity - market the kits to summer camps, afterschool programs, or parents, find a project that you enjoy enough to replicate and start a business making them.

Try a project on a CNC machine (router), smart Home technology, incorporation of robotics, engineering, and computer programming in welding, lithium-ion battery electric starting technology replacing pull start.

State Fair, Local Fairs/Achievement Days, Tech/STEM/Careers Camp.

High School Ag/Tech teacher, local shops (mechanics, repairs, production, installations), 4-H Volunteers.

• Make a display of fillet welds vs electrode

• Make a display of careers related to welding

• Display of basic electrical tools and parts

• Display of light bulbs

• Comparisons and purpose

• Build a birdhouse or feeder, dog house, or a toy train set

• Display showing routine repair and maintenance of small gas engines

• Display comparing 2-stroke and 4-stroke engines

• Display showing the components of a heat pump system

Electricity Resources

Welding Resources

Woodworking

• Planning for My Project Adventure (PA093)
• ND 4-H Project Plan (PA095)
• ND 4-H Plan of Action (PA096)
• ND 4-H Participation Summary for 11-to 19 year-olds (PA098)

For this activity, you will need four unwrapped chocolate bars and a glass measuring cup of boiling water (your heat source for the weld). Place two glasses on a solid surface at the same span distance you did for the plank bridge. Unwrap the chocolate bars. Hold the edges of two chocolate bars against the outside of the glass measuring cup. The heat from the hot water will cause them to melt slightly. Press the melted edges together in a right angle and leave to cool. Use the same process to weld the other two chocolate bars together. When both of the half sections have cooled, melt the remaining long edges and press them together to form the box. Let them cool at least 20 minutes (speed up the process in the refrigerator)