Hands-on
Education
Instructs a
Whole New
Generation
in the Art
of Success.
By Lou Fancher
February/March 2018 65
TK TK TK TK TK TK TK TK TK TK TK TK
What
would
you do
with an old, worn, chipped and
battered ping-pong paddle? You’d
toss it out and buy a new one.
Not Jordan Lym, a 17-year-old
student at Bellarmine College
Preparatory in San Jose.
Inspired to devise a better
solution, Lym created a vector
image using Adobe Illustrator
and cut the paddles out of plywood.
“I cut two pieces for each
paddle. I learned that if you glue
them together with the grain
perpendicular, it makes them
stronger.” The handles Lym made
by putting an Abobe file into
3D design program Fusion 360,
which provided exact dimensions
for fabrication.
