Going wild

A working electric skateboard was one of the winning entries. Courtesy of Mastercam

CNC Software, provider of Mastercam, recently announced the winners of its Wildest Parts Competition from 2022. Designed to encourage interest and participation in manufacturing, entrants in the educational and professional divisions must create parts demonstrating creativity and technical skill using Mastercam software.

The CAM impeller was the other winning entry. Courtesy of Mastercam

“There are so many talented and dedicated teachers, and the quality and originality of their students’ work with Mastercam is both amazing and inspiring. The professional division lets instructors and machinists think outside the box and push their Mastercam skills to make something extraordinary,” Peter Mancini, the company’s product manager for education, said in a statement.

David Berry, a precision machining instructor at Southwestern Illinois College, won the professional division for a turbocharged CAM impeller that featured a 12-blade, large-wheel compressor design. There was a tie for second place between Tzu-Wen, Chen of Taichung Municipal Taichung Industrial High School in Taiwan for a family of squirrels and Guan-Jun Fang of Taichung-Changhua-Nantou Regional Branch of the Ministry of Labor’s Workforce Development Agency in Taiwan for a rocket.

Other student entries included this rocket. Courtesy of Mastercam

A team from Vincennes University in Vincennes, Ind., won the educational division with a working electric skateboard. The team from National Xinying Industrial Vocational High School in Tawain was second for a violin made of aluminum and copper alloy. And Kwan Syn Yen was third in the educational division for a combination/master lock in the shape of an end-mill, paying tribute to CNC manufacturing.