Toran, Connecticut-Mastercam announced the winners of the 2021 craziest parts competition. The Wildest Parts competition is held once a year to encourage students' interest and participation in manufacturing. The competition is open to middle school and post-secondary level students, using Mastercam to create parts that showcase creativity and technical skills. The Wildest Parts Competition also has a department for professional Mastercam users to enter the parts they create.

"We have been looking forward to seeing all Wildest Parts entries we received," said Peter Mancini, Mastercam Education Product Manager. "With so many talented and dedicated teachers, the quality and originality of their students' work using Mastercam is encouraging."

In the middle school department, Wes Bruski from Montana Capital High School submitted a domino and dice cup game set. Wes and his family have always liked games, so Wes had the idea of ​​making a customized set of dominoes and dice cups. Wes made a prototype out of wood, and then processed the final set. He enjoyed every second of this project and learned a lot about processing throughout the process. The second place is Cadogan Wheat from Hamilton High School in Montana, who designed a padlock model.

In the higher education sector, Gus Bronk of Washington State University submitted a keyboard. Gus wants to design and process a unique keyboard with strange materials. The main case is machined from the leftover forged blanks of the 2000 series aluminum alloy Boeing from the 1970s! The project contains the largest single part and the most parts that Gus has ever processed and assembled. In making this part, he learned more features in Mastercam. Jim Courtney from Erie Community College in New York ranked second with a carousel, and Jonathan Hughes from Erie Community College ranked third with a marble machine.

In the team department, the Wrindy Hauser team of Community College in Grand Rapids, Michigan submitted Thor's hammer. The team members belong to GRCC's apprenticeship program for mechanics. When making Thor's Hammer, they said they wanted to make something that would make people excited about machining. When anyone sees their project, they will think it is great and want to learn how to make it! Teammates of Jiao-Hao Wun from Taiwan Universal University ranked second with their modern museum. The Ming-Yang Chen team from Vanung University won third place with their robot.

In the professional sector, Andy Beach from Grand Rapids Community College submitted Ironman, the project to test the new UMC 500 Haas Mill that Andy worked on. This machine is the first 5-axis machine installed at Grand Rapids Community College. Andy wants to thoroughly test the machine by machining a multi-axis part, which will push the size limit of the machine. David Berry from Southwestern Illinois University ranked second with the dodecahedron of the Mastercam tool path, and PUTEN PLUS ranked third with the wireless charging pad.