Abstract
Rocket City Metrology's founder brought two interns who happen to be his children, and the talk is about what happens when students are handed real metrology problems before anyone has told them which ones are hard. It is a training talk in the tradition of Lanny Wilson's 2009 survey and Keith Bevan's 2010 and 2011 arguments for a formal pathway – but from the other end, starting with the people who have not entered the field yet.
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Ben Thomason, Ilan Thomason, Niah Thomason. Rocket City Metrology. Presented at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference 2026, Dallas, Texas, July 20-24, 2026. Coordinate Metrology Society, reference CMS-2026-016.