Come learn about the Culinary Arts in our state-of-the-art kitchen at the Allegan Area ESA Tech Center! Improve your current skills or prepare for employment in the food industry. You will have the opportunity to earn your ServSafe Food Handlers and/or Manager Safety through the National Restaurant Association. See flyer for details.
WZZM13 visited the Building Trades home construction site today to talk to students in the new Pre-Apprenticeship program. @MRCCUnion
We want to spotlight....
Wood TV Channel 8 New's Student of the Week!
Jordyn TeHennepe is a Hopkins High School senior who is in her second year at the Tech Center as a work-based learning student in Veterinary Sciences after finishing the program last year with above average grades and attendance. She was selected to be the Student of the Week by Channel 8 after hearing about her passion for grooming and raising Paws With a Cause foster puppies.
The segment will air this Friday, 11/29, at various times between 4:30-7:00am. It will also be available online at https://www.woodtv.com/community/student-of-the-week/.
It's another school year and we have automotive students ready to work on vehicles! Please do not make appointments or ask repair questions via social media. Call 269-512-7842.
As we remember 9/11, one of our instructors and her brother who is a Detroit firefighter, created this heartfelt video dedicated to the memory of 9/11.
https://youtu.be/7YoJEJwhl44?feature=shared
It was great to collaborate with our Allegan Area ESA Early Childhood Department & Great Start Collaborative to create a booth at the Allegan County Fair highlighting their programs along with Adult CTE at the Tech Center and Early College!
Stop by and check it out!
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We are closed today for Labor Day weekend.
Just a reminder - the Tech Center programs and building will be closed for the holiday weekend, September 1 - 4. See you back on Tuesday!
Allegan Area ESA is looking for substitute teachers for the 2023-24 school year. We use #EDUstaff for hiring substitutes. Please scan the barcode or follow the link to learn more or to apply.
https://www.edustaff.org/
This morning students and their families joined local carpenters and educators from the Allegan Area ESA for a “signing day” to kick-off a new way for students to earn class credits. These students will be the first of many in the Allegan Area ESA to learn a skilled trade through a dual enrollment program at the Carpenter and Millwright training center during their senior year of high school. @MRCCUnion
https://www.alleganaesa.org/article/1193246
Construction Junction was another popular program during Tech Camp. The students had a GREAT time constructing foot stools, bird houses, and toolboxes. They learned how to use cordless drills, hand miter saws, jig saws, hand saws, and other various tools. They even got to witness a turtle laying its eggs one day!
One thing we love about Summer Tech Camp is the variety of programs offered by instructors. This year we added a new program, Diamond Painting 101. From start to finish, the campers took an image and creatively placed their own resin color pallet to their diamond painting and came up with a beautiful mosaic picture. So creative and beautiful. Nice job!
Cameras to Art, led by the Tech Center's Graphic Art and Design instructor, was brimming with creativity last week. Students were outside and inside finding inspiration and taking photos.
The campers learned how to take good pictures learning the compositional guidelines of photography. They also learned how to use Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Illustrator. They created buttons and stickers and then got to print their work and frame their best piece in a 5x7" frame to take home. Being creative is fun...and we had fun!
For Summer Tech Camp, the Ink to Fabric campers learned the basics of screen printing along with a brief history of where it came from and all of the different places that screen printing is used other than shirts and hats. The students then learned how to select an image that would print well, produce a transparency of the image, use a light exposure table to produce a printable screen, mount the screen in a press, and then they finally print and heat set to make their custom shirt!
Our two counselors who were new to the Tech Center this year, took on leading and teaching the Future You program. Today they toured the manufacturing plant at Allegan Event. Campers learned about how ropes courses are created and about all the different job areas from administration to working at the actual course. The job skills utilized throughout this company include machining/CNC, welding, engineering, marketing, and graphic art and design.
The Car Care session of our Car Care/Big Rig Tech Camp program did some awesome things this week as well. The campers built a model combustion engine and learned about its internal parts, learned about electricity, and built an electric motor - all while learning the difference between engines and motors. They also got some time out in the shop to learn and operate the car lifts and other shop equipment.
Not to be out done, the campers in the Fire section of Fire and Steel are learning tons! They were exposed to and learned to use the plasma torch and oxyfuel torch. They created flowers out of metal washers.
These projects were completed by the Steel section of Fire and Steel. This Tech Center program was one split into two sections taught by the welding/Fire and machining/Steel instructors.
The students used the mills to drill holes in aluminum and made the golf tee game and aluminum dice. They learned to polish the projects using sandpaper and Scotchbrite pads.
These are super cool!
Our Tech Camp program, Pet Care Basics, had some fun learning yesterday! They created whole ingredient pet snacks and also dissected pieces of chicken, learning to locate and identify tendons, ligaments, and cartilage.
