Quest Donates Over $100,000 in Robotics Equipment to New Glarus School District
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Photo courtesy of Jennifer Thayer
New Glarus Schools Tech Ed Teacher, Jacob Mihm, with five of the Quest Industrial employees who came to install the robot. Along with installing the robot, they presented the New Glarus School District with a check for a new 3-D printer.
Quest Industrial, a robotics company based out of Monroe, believes strongly in giving back and wanted to help move robotics programming into K-12 so they created a partnership opportunity for school districts.
Although Quest received numerous applications for partnership, they chose New Glarus School District to partner with and provided the school district with over $100,000 in robotics equipment. The robot alone is worth $60,000 and all of the ancillary equipment, including a movable case, computer, and software, is worth another $40,000-$60,000. In addition, they gave the New Glarus School District a check for $3,000 for a new 3-D printer since the one currently in use is extremely old by industry standards.
"We are extremely fortunate to have been selected for this partnership with Quest Industrial," said Superintendent Jennifer Thayer. "Robotics is a vastly growing field, and having the opportunity to have an industry quality robot for our students to learn on is an amazing opportunity. We are very excited about this donation and thank our Technology Education Teacher, Jacob Mihm, for taking the lead on the application process, and Quest Industrial for bringing this amazing opportunity to our school district."
