LAKE KATRINE – The Gene Haas Manufacturing Futures Lab officially opened

Tuesday at Ulster BOCES Career Academies at iPark 87.

The lab is supported by a $1 million partnership with the Gene Haas Foundation and Allendale Machinery, and it will give students access to advanced manufacturing training, so it can prepare as the next generation of skilled professionals.

“Manufacturing education is a fantastic lens to look at,” said Pete Harris, assistant superintendent of Career Pathway Programs for Ulster BOCES. 

“So, what we do through our partners here, manufacturing partners, is find challenges to real world problems that they see or they find and solve them using our additive or reductive machinery,” he said.

The new lab is located in iPark87 in Lake Katrine at the site of the former IBM plant.