THIRTY UNDER THIRTY PROFILES
Ryan Jacquemin Age: 17 Oliver Wolcott Technical High School Torrington, CT
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natural at programming, high school senior Ryan Jacquemin works after school as an apprentice, writing programs for the CNC machines at Seitz LLC (Torrington, CT), a plastic injection molding manufacturer where his dad, Mike, works as a moldmaker and CNC programmer. Winner of the Mastercam 9th Annual Innovator of
the Year Award last year, Jacquemin is working on his apprenticeship at Seitz before possibly going to college to study programming at Vincennes University in Indiana. Jacquemin, who loves computer games and dreams of being a full-time CNC programmer one day, credits his dad with helping him learn to program Mastercam starting in his sophomore year. “For me it was pretty easy to pick up,” Jacquemin said. “For someone with little knowledge of computers, it might be a little harder.” To win the Mastercam contest, Ryan programmed
a three-axis Haas milling machine and cut a mirror for the NASA Mars Rover program. “It was a polished mir- ror for the optics on the Mars Rover,” Jacquemin said. “They make it out of material, sapphire, that’s ground in the ground. I didn’t do it from sapphire, I used aluminum.” In addition to his dad, Jacquemin credits Law- rence Pomerleau, head of the Wolcott’s Manufacturing Technology department, with
helping him the most. Jacquemin did the machining on the Mars Rover workpiece at Oliver Wolcott, a techni- cal school where students split their time between class and working hands-on in the workshop. “There are about 10 trades there at Wolcott, and you go to classes and then you spend about the same amount of time in the shop,” Jacquemin said.
To complete the mirror, Jacquemin hand-polished the
“Ryan is an honor student and always accomplishes whatever he puts his mind to. Fortunately for our industry, he has chosen manufacturing as his career path.”
front side of the mirror at Seitz with 40 thousand grit dia- mond. His work impressed the Mastercam judges, who work for the company that makes the actual optics for the Mars Rover. “This is a challenging national contest. In the 2014 competition, students had to design and machine an aerospace mirror similar in design and func- tion to mirrors that are used in industry-leading space and industrial technology projects,” said Dan Newby of CNC Software/Mastercam’s Education Division, who nominated Jacquemin for 30 Under 30. “The contest was judged by head engineers at Opti- max, the company that makes the optics for aerospace programs such as the Mars Rover,” Newby said. “While all of the submissions were exceptional, the judges se- lected Ryan’s optical mirror because ‘He went the extra mile and had polished the part. It was also the most ac- curate mirror compared to the original specs.’ I mention that quote because Ryan goes ‘the extra mile’ in every endeavor he undertakes. “According to his father, Ryan is an honor student and always accomplishes whatever he puts his mind to. Fortunately for our indus- try, he has chosen manufac- turing as his career path,” Newby said. “Attending a technical high school was no surprise; Ryan has been very interested in all things
mechanical since he was five years old when he and his dad refurbished a dirt bike in their garage.” A top student who excels in math and science, Jacquemin is hoping to soon work on five-axis CNC machines. “They’re really complex and that’s the kind of machine I’d like to work on,” Jacquemin said of five- axis CNCs.
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