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August 2007

Student takes part in Design Camp.

Design Camp Puts College and Career Within Reach

For a week, Design Camp kids live like college students. They work on architecture, graphic design, art and industrial design projects. (They eat pizza and go bowling too.)
Helicopters are worked on at IMST facility.

Keeping Downed Choppers Up

Engineers at the Naval Air Depot at Cherry Point, N.C., are constantly pressured to get military helicopters and transport planes off the ground when the aircraft hit the base for repairs. Yet a lack of companies capable of manufacturing replacement parts has created a shortage of structural, electrical, engine, and hydraulic parts and systems.

 Bolts of yarn await the start of the weaving process in a North Carolina textile mill.

Certified for Seven-Figure Sales

NC State University’s Industrial Extension Service helps to keep one North Carolina company from losing its biggest client, saving them $2 million in annual sales.