2.And walking into a room with no desks or whiteboard made you feel like an actual grown-up.
3.For the first time, you got to use things like table clamps, band saws, and wood glue.
4.There was also the novelty of using flat carpenter pencils.
5.No other classroom smelled better than all that freshly cut wood.
6.The safety glasses were way less demeaning than those goggles you wore in science class.
7.The instructional videos either lulled you to sweet, merciful sleep...
8....or creeped you out just enough to ensure you'd never sleep again.
9.There was nothing more gratifying than taking apart an engine and figuring out how it worked.
10.Even when you couldn't chew gum in school, you could still build a gumball machine in Industrial Arts.
11.What other class allowed you to do cool stuff like engrave things with ~laser~ machines...
12....or build real-life hovercrafts out of plywood? HOVERCRAFTS, GUYS.
13.But most of all, there was the unique satisfaction that came from making something with your own two hands. 😊
From builders to tinkerers, a new league of makers is out there — and Intel is fueling today's DIY movement. Tune in to America's Greatest Makers in 2016. 🔧
