The skills-gap dilemma in manufacturing shows little sign of abating amidst Baby-Boomer retirements. One possible solution: Bringing back the once-popular high-school shop class--but with a high-tech slant to interest and prepare a new generation for modern manufacturing. The Tampa Bay Times reports on a Florida high school that is doing just that.

Armwood High School in Seffner, Fla., has begun a new in-school manufacturing program around a "Machining Technology Lab, which " aims to teach students who may not be considering traditional college and are planning to go directly into the workforce about machining technology and expose them to career opportunities in manufacturing," according to the article.

The lab includes a CNC lathe and vertical machining center--items not found in the shop classes of the Boomers these students will hopefully be replacing.

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