Batesville Camp Teaches Elementary Students About Manufacturing

Batesville Products sponsored the event on Friday.

(Batesville, Ind.) - Fifteen elementary school students participated in the second annual Foundry Fun Day at Kids Discovery Factory, sponsored by Batesville Products. 

Campers learned about manufacturing through several hands-on activities related to engineering, casting, CNC machining, and polishing. In one activity, the campers melted gelatin and molded it into gummy worms, similar to how foundries melt and mold metal.

Kids Discovery Factory is a non-profit children’s museum in Batesville that teaches science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics through fun, hands-on activities. The Foundry Fun Day camp was the first of three STEAM camps they’re hosting this summer.

The Foundry Fun Day Camp was sponsored by Batesville Products, a family-run foundry located in Lawrenceburg and Aurora with a mission excite the next generation about American manufacturing.

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