WINSTED, CT – May 24, 2022 – The Entrepreneurial Center at Northwestern Connecticut Community College is pleased to announce its next Small Business Seminar, a Maker Event: From Vector to Venture: How to turn your Designs into a Business. The event, presented by the NCCC Entrepreneurial Center in partnership with Northwest Hills Council of Governments, Stepcraft, and S.C.O.R.E., will be held on June 14, 2022 from 5:30-8:30 pm at Stepcraft – 151 Field Street, Torrington CT 06790.

This seminar will teach attendees how to take custom vectors (a type of line drawing) they’ve created and turn them into products they can sell in their own cottage business. Participants will learn about automatic tool changing, vacuum table components for clamp-free milling, and they’ll learn how to create their own acrylic lighted sign with their custom vectors using V-Carve – a free-to-try 3D Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) program. This free seminar will give attendees the training they need to start manufacturing their own products using any consumer-grade 3-axis CNC machine.

From Vector to Venture: How to turn your Designs into a Business, will be taught by Erick Royer, CEO of Stepcraft, a US made 3-axis CNC machine manufacturer based in Torrington, CT. Erick has decades of experience in the maker community, small business development, video and magazine publishing, and rapid prototyping.

For more information, or to register to attend this free Small Business Seminar Maker Event by Northwest Startup, please contact John Fiorello, Entrepreneurial Center Director, at 860-738-6444 or online at www.nwcc.edu/sbs