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Club educational programs

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Yesterday, South Central Pennsylvania Wood Turners (6 of us) went to a boy scout jamboree and taught scouts to turn their own pens. Due to lack of volunteers and lathes, we were only able to have a few over 60 youth turn their own pens. We could easily have doubled that with more help and equipment. I had never turned a pen in my life, so I got the short course in pen making by watching a few others and then helping the scouts assemble their own pens. at the press. By the end of the day, I was also teaching/supervising scouts turning their pens.

I had a lot of fun, learned how easy pen making is, and got the warm and fuzzies from helping so many kids. I felt a little bad because we only had so many time slots in the day and had to turn a hundred other youngins away.

I also have to say, that we old codgers often rant about the youth of today. All of them were a pleasure to deal with.
 
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