Adam Prante Age: 19
Sattler Machine Products Sharon Center, OH
UNDER THIRTY A
dam Prante blew away the competition in the 2013 SkillsUSA CNC Lathe turn- ing challenge—beating his competition by a full 45 minutes. That was last year,
and this year, Adam is in an NTMA apprenticeship program working as an apprentice CNC setup and machine operator at Sattler Machine Products (Sha- ron Center, OH).
Adam was nominated for the 30 Under 30 honor by
Toni Neary, business development for ToolingU-SME, who wrote that Adam was a pleasure to work with dur- ing the Regional Skills USA for Ohio. Adam’s interest in working with machines began with exposure to his father’s woodworking and carpentry. For the last two years of high school, Adam chose to go to the Medina (OH) Career cen- ter where he spent two and a half hours a day in the shop learning to run a Bridgeport, an engine lathe, or program on Mastercam.
Adam was particularly motivated by his getting a 1996 Chevrolet S10 truck when he was sixteen and a half. “I wanted to make some pretty cool stuff for the truck rather than buying it. I painted the truck and lowered it, and last winter I got an aluminum block 5.3 V8. Then I tore the motor back out and boosted it up to 450 hp.” Typically, the NTMA apprenticeship has two or
three Tooling U online classes a week: for example, two classes on controllers for a mill and lathe, a Maxi lathe or mill, or a Haas lathe or mill. “Tooling U Classes covered machining different materials including plastics, steels, and other metals. Then we’ll do a materials part in plastic, in different
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metals, steels and how they’re made and their chemi- cal makeup,” said Adam. During his senior year, Adam was pretty much on his own in learning CNC. His teacher was an expe- rienced manual machine operator, so they worked together on learning the CNC ropes. Adam read every- thing he could about CNC and eventually his teacher said that he was good enough to win the nationals, which he did as well as winning state and regional machining skills competitions.
“The time that I spent learning CNC from the ground up paid off in the competition, and I was able to use that knowledge to my advantage.”
“The time that I spent learning CNC from the ground up paid off in the competition, and I was able to use that knowledge to my advantage,” Adam said. Adam’s future plans, after finishing his apprentice- ship, of course, are to become more involved with designing parts with emphasis on their manufacturability. Recently, Adam had the opportunity to see the "Ameri- can Made" movie. A local shop, Automation Tool & Die,
sponsored showing the movie, which is a documentary about two small American businesses and how they moved forward and how consumers, business owners, and government can cooperate to bring business back to the US.
Adam returns to his high school regularly where he serves as a part of the school’s advisory council. He is in- volved in touring the shop and offering advice on how to make the class better. He also talks to students about the opportunities for good paying jobs and the bright future that a career in manufacturing can offer them. He tells them that they can look forward to good paying jobs in environments that aren’t anything like the negative image that has been portrayed about manufacturing. ME
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