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June 16, 2005: Thanks to a partnership with
Berks Technical Institute in Wyomissing, Penn., The Rodale Institute
is one big step closer to making available complete technical
drawings for the No-Till + project's cover crop roller.
On Wednesday, June 15, technical drawing students Miguel
Villegas, Candace Parvus, Devin White and Venus Daniel and
faculty members Ken Hochberg and Erik Angel came to the Institute
to deliver their completed drawings of the roller.
Midway through a two-year associate's degree course in technical
drafting, the students took on the project as team and said
they were pleased to get experience working on a real-world
problem with a tangible outcome.
"Almost everything else we've done has been out of the
book," said Venus Daniel, 19, who lives about 10 minutes
away from the Institute. "The best thing was seeing it
all come together."
TRI farm manager Jeff Moyer expressed gratitude on the part
of the Institute for the excellent work the students had done.
The process of creating the drawings also generated some refinements
and simplifications in the roller's design, he noted—small
but important steps toward streamlining production of the
tool.
In the coming weeks, Moyer and the BTI team will continue
to work together to make digital versions of the drawings
available to potential fabricators and the general public.
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