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As 2011 comes to an end, we wanted to take this opportunity to say that we appreciate our customers and readers. Have a safe and happy Holiday Season! We look forward to the New Year!
Please let us know if you have any suggestions or questions by emailing product-tips@hearlihy.com.
The November Hearlihy catalog has been made digital. An interactive online catalog is available for customers to view. The online catalog is great for people who like seeing all the products in front of them on pages but still like the convenience of ordering online. If you see something in the online catalog you want to buy, you simply click on the product number to open a link to that product on the Web site so that you can add that product to your cart. Check it out here.
For a limited time, we will offer $10 off the purchase price of a True Scale House Framing Kit. Offer will be good starting in October. Offer only applies to orders placed online. Discount will be applied at checkout.
A study conducted by Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce took a look at what degrees prove to be the most profitable.
So if you are headed off to college or are looking for a career change, below is a list of the Top 10 majors with the highest median earnings to consider when choosing your degree:
Petroleum Engineering $120,000
Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Sciences and Administration $105,000
Mathematics and Computer Science $98,000
Aerospace Engineering $87,000
Chemical Engineering $86,000
Electrical Engineering $85,000
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering $82,000
Mechanical Engineering $80,000
Metallurgical Engineering $80,000
Mining and Mineral Engineering $80,000
To see the complete study, click here.
Ordering supplies for your classroom just got easier. During the months of August and September, we will offer $20 off all online orders of $150 or more. In order to receive the promotion code, click here and sign up to be a VIP customer.
School starts just in time for the release of our August catalog. Request your catalog here.
To help ease any concerns from parents who will be teaching their homeschooled children about drafting, we have created five new homeschool packs. These packs provide parents the necessary tools and materials to teach students interested in mechanical drafting and architecture.
Leading the packs is the Introduction to Drafting. Three other packs follow this lead with Intermediate Drafting Workbook, Architectural Design & Graphics, and Green Building Kits. These packs are a great stepping stone into computer-aided drafting. The fifth pack, Engineering with Paper & Cardboard, helps students develop engineering skills and critical thinking.
The drafting packs range from $30-$75. For more information on the packs visit hearlihy.com/homeschool or click here.
If you asked the 16,000-plus people who attended SkillsUSA last week in Kansas City what their favorite moment was, you would probably get a lot of different answers. You might get replies that include the Army Band that performed outside all week, or the competitions that took place and the medals won, or the exhibitors and their giveaways, or some might say the delicious food and the smells that filled the air from the street vendors. But if you asked the four-year-old little girl from Alabama, she would tell you her favorite was Mr. Robot.
Mr. Robot is the life-size robot that a couple of Pitsco employees built for FIRST® in St. Louis that danced with Will.i.am and the Black Eyed Peas back in April. Mr. Robot met a new friend at SkillsUSA last week. She was half his size and not nearly as popular as the Black Eyed Peas, but she was just as cool, in my opinion, and could draw a crowd that would impress Will.i.am, I bet.
This adorable little girl was with her grandpa visiting SkillsUSA and came across a robot that was walking in the hallway of the convention center. He was big and shiny and had blue flashing lights and probably intimidated most other kids her age, but not her. She wanted to talk to Mr. Robot and be his friend. So she stopped him and they danced together and she asked him to do things and he did. She asked him questions and he answered her by shaking his head for no and his right hand for yes. She asked Mr. Robot if he wanted to be her friend, and Mr. Robot shook his right hand and she smiled a great big smile.
People gathered around to watch the two interact. Between her sweet southern accent and her complete innocent belief that she was actually talking to a robot, you couldn't help being mesmerized by this charismatic little girl. After two days of playing with Mr. Robot, she didn't want to say goodbye to him, but he had to take a nap and recharge. She eventually gave him a hug and told him, "I'll be right back, okay Mr. Robot?" and then said, "We're still friends, okay Mr. Robot?"
So if you were to ask me what my favorite moment at SkillsUSA was, I would tell you it wasn't the Army Band or the competitions or the exhibitors or the food. It wasn't even Mr. Robot. I would say that my favorite moment was becoming friends with the four-year-old little girl from Alabama, and when I think of her, I smile.
Thank you Ms. Cheyenne for being my friend!
Watch a video of Mr. Robot and Cheyenne here.
Considering all the disasters in our area lately, this article in POPSCI caught our attention. The article called 'Concrete Canvas' Makes Erecting Permanent Buildings As Easy as Pitching a Tent, is below. Make sure to watch the video that follows the article.
When disaster strikes and permanent structures are leveled, as they were recently by earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand (and more distantly in Haiti), they are usually replaced in the short term by tent cities. Two engineering students thought they could do better and invented Concrete Canvas, a fabric impregnated with concrete that can turn a tent into a hardy, permanent structure in 24 hours. Just add water.
Fundamentally, Concrete Canvas is a clever means to erect a sturdy, permanent structure anywhere. Packed in a crate, the entire building comes ready to erect with a minimum of infrastructure or extra tools. The exterior fabric, the Concrete Canvas, is basically like normal tent canvas loaded with dry cement particles. That fabric is bound to an interior airtight bladder.
When deployed at a site, the shelter is simply unpacked, unfolded, and attached to an air pump that fills it with compressed air like a balloon. Once rigid, the exterior simply needs to be thoroughly hosed down--dirty water works just fine--to hydrate all that concrete embedded in the Concrete Canvas. By the next day, the concrete is hardened and you’re left with nearly 600 square feet of interior space sheltered by a rigid concrete shell.
Since the interior is already lined with the airtight bladder, it’s sterilizable for an easily deployable triage facility. And like any concrete structure the walls can be drilled to install electricity, light fixtures, surfaces, or whatever the situation calls for. All said, two people can put the thing up in an hour (plus drying time), and the units can be organized end to end to create larger interior spaces. When the clock is ticking and manpower is at a premium, it’s a clever way to quickly put a roof over peoples’ heads.
To see an impressive video of a Concrete Canvas tent going up, click through the BBC link below.
BBC
The April edition of our Hearlihy catalog is ready for delivery. If you haven't already received it or you would like to get your copy, request one here.
Our quarterly promotion of 50% off all Harry Roman books will continue until the end of May, so don't miss out on this great deal. See all of Harry Roman's books here.
Starting April 1, all Harry Roman books are 50% off, for a limited time only.
One of Hearlihy's most prolific authors, Engineer Harry Roman has nine exclusive titles and three more in progress. Roman's guides focus on hands-on activities using readily available materials and local sources. Some of his books include:
An Engineer Looks at Solar Water Heating
An Engineer Looks at How the Water Company Works
Thinking Like an Engineer
Engineering Activities with Paper and Cardboard
To learn more about Harry's books, click here.
Beautiful and chilly Minneapolis, Minn., played host to the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association conference last week. The Pitsco family of companies attended, including Hearlihy, Pitsco Education Catalog, Pitsco Education Curriculum, and LEGO® Education.
If you missed the conference, you missed a great show this year. Attendance was up from previous years and teachers were optimistic for next year.
The Hearlihy booth sported a new backdrop, a maiden voyage for this show. The new True Scale House Framing Kit, the popular 3-D Board and Archi-Board, and the Screen Printing Curriculum were a few of the products on display.
Special thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth - we enjoyed speaking with all of you. And finally, congratulations to Christopher Dimsdale from Raleigh, N.C., who won the True Scale House Framing Kit giveaway.
We hope to see you next year at ITEEA 2012 in Long Beach, Calif., March 15-17.
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While traditional and computer-aided drafting is Hearlihy's foundation, construction and technology are also vital as the areas where drafting is applied. The 2011 Hearlihy Drafting & Supplies catalog introduces several new items to support these key subjects.
Hearlihy has offered house framing kits for both truss roof and hipped roof designs for years. But with the newest framing kit, teachers don't even have to decide which roof students will build before they order. The True Scale House Framing Kit lets them build either one. This kit contains the materials, working drawings, and instructions needed to construct either roof style as a 3/4-inch scale model house. In the process, students dimension the lumber, read the plans, and learn standard construction techniques to handcraft a model house - an effective introduction to wood frame construction!
To complement this new kit, Hearlihy offers the Lumberjack Cutter, which handles big pieces of balsa wood while offering angle guide marks and safety guards. The cutter comes with the True Scale House Framing Kit. A Refill Kit is available for those who want more framing kits but not more cutters.
Author and engineer Harry Roman delivers three more concise and affordable activity books: An Engineer Looks at Solar Water Heating, An Engineer Looks at How the Water Company Works, and Engineering Depends on Creativity. These guides give students a perspective not often found in more traditional engineering and technology texts.
The catalog includes more than 50 pages dedicated to drafting and includes sections for model building, transportation, flight, alternative energy, metal craft, screen printing, cutting tools, criminology, calculators, and teacher resources.
To learn more about these product lines or to order a free copy of the 2011 Hearlihy Drafting & Supplies catalog, visit our Web site or call 866-622-1003.
As a way to say thanks, starting in February, every order will receive a Hearlihy Soft-Grip Hobby knife absolutely free with any purchase. This offer will be for a limited time only, so don't delay.
With our February catalog ready to ship, this offer comes at the perfect time. We created a couple great products for this issue: the True Scale House Framing kit is like two kits in one, providing the option of building a house with either a truss or hip roof in the same kit. The Lumberjack Cutter is also a great addition to the catalog for those larger pieces of balsa that need a precise cut. Request your copy today!