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hello my name is mrs ouelette
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my name is mr peckham and we teach the
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my tech program here at boces
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this program is for 10th grade students
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who are interested
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in other courses for their 11th and 12th
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grade year
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this is a career exploration course
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where students have the opportunity to
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participate in
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shop and class activities that encourage
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them
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to challenge and discover their
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abilities and interests in addition to
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classroom instructions and academic
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skills
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we integrate real world experiences
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into our program our program units that
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we focus on
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are auto technology carpentry culinary
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and conservation all right so we'll come
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over here and i'll show you guys what we
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do first
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so over here we do some auto tech we
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start off with safety we do this online
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sb2
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safety program first so then we can move
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on to automotive we teach them how to do
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work orders
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we start off with fluids we check
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all the different fluids we do oil
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changes and we go on to tires
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and then breaks so that's what we just a
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little bit of automotive to get them
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interested in if that's what they want
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then we move on to carpentry uh we start
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off with some
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projects they make on their own they
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start off by drawing it up on graph
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paper so they can build whatever they
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want
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and we use old pallets and we recycle
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them and make them into different
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projects i'll show you a couple that
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they did
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so over here they're making a coat rack
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we're also building a training station
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for electricity which we'll get into a
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little bit later
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over here some more finished projects so
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what they do is they start off with a
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piece of graph paper
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and they draw it to scale then they make
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it so this is all like out of recyclable
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pellets here's a shelf
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that they're going to hang on the wall
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that they built
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so it's all recycled pallets so the cost
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of the project's pretty much free which
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is nice
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after they work on their skills of
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building stuff we actually frame a house
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in carpentry
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after we frame it up then we do
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electricity so you can see they're
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wiring it up
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they're putting lights in plugs in
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circuit breakers so they do the whole
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thing
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then we we do a little bit of outdoor
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power
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because the goal of this class is to get
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you to see what you like
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so we got some like lawn mowers and snow
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blowers that we work on
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tune them up then the last thing that i
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work on with my guys is we do some
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welding
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we teach them basic welding so we teach
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them how to do
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butt welds plug welds overlap welds
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we start off with just running normal
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beads to make sure that they know
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how to do it then they go on to welding
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pieces of metal together
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as part of our conservation unit we make
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a grow cart that students can actually
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make at home
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so what we did is we took a cart and we
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have lights and we
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have heat mats on each of them and the
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next step to this will be done tomorrow
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where we will actually start seeds and
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grow stuff that we will in september
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the next class will be able to harvest
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so we're going to focus
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this year on making tomato sauce we're
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so we're going to start with peppers
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and then tomatoes so we're going to put
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this lamp up
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so we're going to hold it up and right
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now what we're doing is we're just
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making it so it's about level and we'll
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actually raise it and lower it with the
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plants
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other parts of our conservation include
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collecting maple
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sap to make maple syrup and more
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greenhouse
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activities thank you for coming to my
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tech and i hope you are interested in
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our program and i hope to see many of
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you next year
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so if you guys are interested in taking
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this my tech course
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make sure you see your homeschool
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guidance counselor and get enrolled
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thank you
