AFS Corporate Member Spuncast Inc. (Watertown, Wisconsin) donated $5,000 to Watertown High School to support its manufacturing courses.

“We are enthusiastic to continue supporting the future of our community, especially since the Watertown community has supported our business throughout the past 42 years,” Don Payne, Spuncast CEO, said according to the Watertown Daily Times.

According to the report, the school has been working to finalize curriculum and select equipment for classes during the 2018-19 school year. and was working to raise $60,000.

“We see this donation as a great opportunity to invest in developing the youth of the Watertown area,” Spuncast president Kyle Reading said, according to the report. “We are committed to helping grow interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics as career options.”

Courses in the upcoming year will be on welding, machine tool, and metal fabrication.

“We are excited to see this goal realized,” instructor Jesse Domer said, according to the report.