Students create ornaments to celebrate Hammonton’s sequicentennial

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The sesquicentennial celebration is sparkling this year. Ms. Daniels’ class and creative mind designed and created ornaments to raise money not only to celebrate Hammonton’s 150th anniversary but also to raise money to fix the clock across from the post office.

Daniels created holiday designs including snowflakes and Christmas trees, while Mr. Matt Arena designed a limited edition ornament featuring an image of the clock. Sales from the clock ornament will go toward the town clock repair fund. All of the designs feature the number 150 in honor of the sesquicentennial.

Using a machine called the Auto CADD 2014 to create the ornaments, Daniels and her team of students created a total of 162 ornaments. After cutting them out of a full spectrum, Daniels used a supply, engrave machine design, which allows users to take a design and mass produce it.

To help her students understand the most efficient way to create items like these, students enrolled in the course made a flow process charts.
Daniels has multiple jobs for all her students. Some cut, clean, sand, paint, lacquer and coloring.

Many of the students found the project challenging but everyone learned a thing or two. Sophomore Jake Pleis, who was responsible for coloring the ornament, realized that the task involved more skill than he realized.

“I found it challenging to make sure to not color outside the lines with a marker,” he said. Matthew Zein, a junior, had the job of being the lacquer and had to put the final coat on the product.

“It’s really important to have a process system [when completing a large-scale project],” he said. “Everyone needs to have a job.”

Proceeds from the holiday-themed ornaments, which are for sale in the school store for $3, will go toward the purchase of equipment in Daniels’ classroom. The clock ornament is for sale at the Noyes Museum store on Second Street in Downtown Hammonton.