Describes innovative technology education programs at Lafayette High School in Virginia and Keiser College in Florida that explore three-dimensional computer design and animation. (JOW)

Career and technical education is already ahead of the curve, since automotive technology, electrical technology and electronics students across the nation have been actively engaged in learning about hybrid, electric and even solar-powered cars. Students in the Environmental Technologies Club at Central High School in Phoenix, Arizona, have built…

Describes a technology education program at Newburyport High School in Massachusetts that provides hands-on learning through a virtual shop class 3-D computer-aided design. (JOW)

Many a great idea has first taken shape as a simple drawing sketched by hand on a piece of paper, but in an increasingly high-tech world, such drawings are more often being created--or at the very least perfected--with the aid of a computer. And in today's highly automated workplace, manufacturing a finished product from that great idea will…