ISSUED: 19 April 2021
MEDIA CONTACT: Valerie Owens
SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV — Shepherd University’s Seeding Your Future is offering a free recycling workshop on metal casting where families and students in grades K-12 will learn about recycling methods, manufacturing processes, and ways to reduce their carbon footprint on Saturday, April 24, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
In this workshop students and families will create artistic plaques by carving designs into sand that will be cast from melted aluminum from cans and scrap pieces. Students can bring in aluminum cans to help provide materials, but that is not necessary. Tools will be provided. Participants should wear work-appropriate clothing such as long pants and closed-toed shoes.
In order to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and allow for in-person workshops there will be three timed sections with a limit of three to four families per section. To learn more and sign up, visit the Seeding Your Future website.
This workshop was made possible by the Two Rivers Giving Circle, Shepherd University FASTEnER Lab, 713 Studios, and Maria’s Taqueria.
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