AFS NEWS
AFS NEWS AFS Seeks Papers for “
119th Metalcasting Congress AFS has issued a call for papers for its 119th Metalcast-
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Kevin Evers President St. Louis Precision Casting
ing Congress to be held April 21-23, 2015, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio. AFS is seeking papers covering all issues relating to
metalcasting, diecasting and foundry management and operations, including unique in-plant procedures, new technologies, equipment, products and other innovations that have contributed to enhanced metalcasting productiv- ity and quality. Technical paper abstracts are due Aug. 15 and complete
papers are due Sept. 15. Paper number assignment, off er and abstract form and author’s guide will be available July 1, 2014 on the Metalcasting Congress website (
www.met-
alcastingcongress.org). For more information, contact Pam Lassila, Metalcasting
Congress administrative assistant, at 800/537-4237 or
plassila@afsinc.org, or visit
www.metalcastingcongress.org.
Junior High Teacher Shares Impact of Foundry in a Box
West Milwaukee Intermediate School students are
learning metalcasting thanks to the eff orts of the Wiscon- sin Chapter of the American Foundry Society and teachers like Andrew Mente, technology education teacher for the West Allis-West Milwaukee School District in Wiscon- sin. Mente and the AFS chapter have worked together to demonstrate the process to seventh- and eighth-graders with the Foundry in a Box. Mente shared the value of this partnership and its posi-
tive infl uence on the students in an article he wrote for his fellow teachers. “Students were very excited when I fi rst told them about the
prospect of creating unique objects out of metal,” Mente wrote. “My students have never seen anything like it before.” Mente shared one example of a student whose fi rst
eff orts at making a mold failed to produce a good cast- ing. He discussed with the student what could have gone wrong and how to fi x it. T ey ended up widening the gate and venting the distant areas of the mold, which resulted in successful castings. “Seeing him carefully inspect his castings after breaking loose the sand was a great joy to me,” Mente wrote. “It was hard to diminish his enthusiasm for creating objects every day after that.” Since its inception, the Foundry in a Box has been
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utilized at events and schools to interest and educate the next generation of metalcasters. T e kit allows students and teachers to create their own castings, from pressing the oil-based sand into a small matchplate mold, melting tin in a microwave oven and safely pouring the molten metal into the mold.
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