TEACHING TO BUILD: Using industry-standard software, Joel Lowe, the teacher of Project Lead the Way at New Tech High School in Rochester, demonstrates an engineering lesson to freshman Breanna Abbott. Chris Paxton, a junior, continues creating a plane out of two surfaces. By Christmas, students will have designed each piece of a flashlight to fit together “perfectly,” Lowe said. (Arnold Ernest/Pharos-Tribune) Arnold Ernest / Order photo reprints