With his warm smile and childlike enthusiasm, it’s easy to picture Sheridan College Machine Tool Technology student Frank Baca as an 8-year-old running lathes with his grandpa in Northern Idaho. “I would help him do ranching work and haying, but mainly I found my machine tooling interest in the machines he had in his shop. My grandpa would just let me loose in there,” Frank remembers.It was then he knew he loved machining—but he didn’t realize until decades later, and a few moves across Wyoming and Utah, that his interest would lead him to Sheridan. Frank grew up in Evanston, moving to American Fork, Utah, for high school. After taking general courses at Utah’s Snow College, he worked at the world-famous Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Aerial Tram, which take people to the top of Rendezvous Mountain.
