My role is to facilitate problem-solving situations that help students learn to think, discern, and make good choices. Hammel's students use computers to plan, draw, display, calculate, and forecast projects before a tool is ever put to metal or wood.
Computers also help operate machines and manipulate materials to turn ideas into finished products.
Throwing out the lathes and just filling the room with computers is a mistake. Hammel's classroom is one of four prototype classrooms built as models for future planning by the new superintendent, Raymond Farley, who arrived at Hunterdon Central in 1990. Our facility, however, did not encourage this approach. The rest of the transformation was on display during the governor's address to the students, staff, and community from the school's television studio, broadcast live in the school and over local cable to the community. Technology is a big factor in this modern, comprehensive high school.