I was a Junior in high school in Springfield, Oregon and we had classes like these. One was Principles of Technology were we played with wiring houses and oscilloscopes. We also had a robust machine shop with CNC machines. In Principles of tech we had a injection molder. I also took four years of drafting and auto-tech.

So we had the tools in the tenth grade to design a part in autocad in drafting class, take it over to the machine shop and have a CNC machine mill a mold that could then be pushed over to have parts injection molded.

All that is gone now due to cuts in funding.

And for fun we actually had a class to teach people how to be a logger.