CONWAY — Joe Riddensdale has a passion for education and wants to continue to raise the bar both for himself and his students, whether that be teaching STEM Aviation for the first time in the Mount Washington Valley Career and Technical Center at Kennett High or making the first food delivery by drone in the Granite State.
This was all done amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and Riddensdale, the CADD (Computer-Aided Design & Drafting) and engineering teacher at KHS, even did his part to help the community combat the virus. He made a splitter out of hard plastic that could hook up to a ventilator and in essence, turned one ventilator into two, doubling the fleet at Memorial Hospital in April of 2020.
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